FEC chairman defends Swift Boat ads!

Worldnetdaily ^ | August 25, 2004 | © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

[OPS4]

Wednesday, August 25, 2004

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELECTION 2004 FEC chairman defends Swift Boat ads Disagrees 'only the politicians should be able to say what they want'

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The chairman of the Federal Elections Commission, a Clinton appointee, defended the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in the face of a complaint filed with the agency by Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.

Kerry claims the television ads, in which Vietnam veterans question the senator's veracity and slam him for his anti-war activities, have been illegally coordinated with the Bush-Cheney campaign. Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth is a 527 political group that says it is acting independently. The group's two television ads have been released in conjunction with a book by two of its members, John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi, "Unfit for Command."

Though Chairman Bradley Smith is a Republican, he was appointed to the FEC by President Bill Clinton, a Democrat.

"I think it's great we live in a country where 260 average guys can go out and put their point of view out there before the public and influence a major presidential race,'' Smith said in an interview with Bloomberg television. "I am not one who agrees it is illegitimate for citizens to take a stand on these kind of issues and only the politicians should be able to say what they want about the issues they want to talk about.''

Smith said it is unlikely the FEC will rule on Kerry's complaint before the Nov. 2 presidential election.

In May, Bloomberg reported, Smith voted with the majority in a 4-2 vote to put off a decision on regulations that would make it more difficult for groups such as Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to solicit unlimited donations.

The first ad quotes John Kerry's Vietnam comrades calling him a liar, questioning his honor, accusing him of misrepresenting his actions for medals and attacking his character.

The second ad, released Friday, charges Kerry with betrayal for accusing Vietnam veterans of war crimes in 1971 Senate testimony.

[OPS4]

Smart Answer from the FEC, OPs4 God BLess America!

[Area51]

Well look on the bright side, there is atleast one Republican still breathing in Washington DC that beleives in the first Amendment.


To bad it isn't the one sitting in the White House.

[marty60]

"I think it's great we live in a country where 260 average guys can go out and put their point of view out there before the public and influence a major presidential race,'' Smith said in an interview with Bloomberg television. "I am not one who agrees it is illegitimate for citizens to take a stand on these kind of issues and only the politicians should be able to say what they want about the issues they want to talk about.''

gee what a novel concept, this will drive the commie/fascist/socialist/evil dums nuts. Can't wait to hear their response to this statement.

[AFPhys]

"I am not one who agrees it is illegitimate for citizens to take a stand on these kind of issues and only the politicians should be able to say what they want about the issues they want to talk about."

---The END of the line for the sKerry campaign ...
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[EdReform]

Good news!

[OPS4]

George has to allow his underlings make the statements in defense of the constitution, since the communists or dems as they call themselves, will use it against him, and call him Hitler.

I guess being a Republican conservative lables me and and my fellow conservative's, as Nazis, in the eyes of the demo/communists.

God Save the U.S.
OPs4 God BLess America!

[hoosiermama]

Good news to pass on.

[Arrowhead1952]

Good news ping!!

[Howlin]

I saw Bradley Smith on TV yesterday; he flat out said that NO COMPLAINT had been filed.

Now, what is it that I remember about Bradley Smith? Something contentious about his appointment? Big fight? It won't come to me right this minute, but I do remember something.

[Area51]

Guess again. Jorge Delano Bush Signed CFR. He knew it suppressed freedom of speech, he so much as said so when campaigning. (he said he has some real constitutional issues with the legislation) But then he wet his finger, stuck it into wind to see which way it was blowing and signed the turd into law.

He also attempted in 2000 to halt a website that paradied him.

He's as much against critizism of Politicians as Kerry!
I heard what he said during that Texas press conference, GET ALL THE OUTSIDE VOICES OUT OF THE CHAMPAIGN AND ONLY ALLOW THE CANDIDATES TO TALK ABOUT THE ISSUES.

Sounds like suppression of the First amendment to me.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Ramsey Clark to Join Panel for Saddam’s Defense
arabnews Wednesday, 25, August, 2004


People can get
Kerry's real book here,
right now,
online FREE!!

From Kerry's "The New Soldier":
Al Hubbard Sgt., 22 Troop Carrier Squadron Aug. ’65-June ’66

Emotions: Walking down the flight line at Saigon past stacks of aluminum cases containing American bodies and past stacks of aluminum luggage containing American currency. Seeing the tight, sad face of an Airman loading the bodies aboard a dirty Air Force Transport and the wide smiling face of a stewardess greeting the passengers aboard a clean Pan American Clipper Jet. Hearing a Vietnamese beg you to leave his country and an American colonel tells you to bomb his country. Hearing a Vietnamese invite you to live in his home, after the war and an American explain why you can’t live in his block, after the war. Flying over barren, brown, safe American held terrain and over lush, green unsafe enemy terrain. Feeling happy to be leaving a country in which you do not belong and sad to be returning to a country in which you are not allowed to belong. Sacrificing a portion of your consciousness so you won’t have to deal with being there and building mental blocks so you won’t have to deal with having been there.

- Al Hubbard, proven fraud who never set foot in Viet Nam. The only Vietnamese he ever met was when he was collaborating with the North Vietnamese in Paris
on the American Communist Party's nickel.
John Kerry's explanation: "He (Hubbard) simply exaggarated his particular position.
But nobody knew it at the time. And those things happen."

The New Soldier, (46 pages)
By John Kerry
and Vietnam Veterans
Against the War
PART I
PART II
PART III

Kerry hopes everyone
in the USA gets this book!
Print this out (46 pages) and disribute it,
especially to the liberals you know.

Copy and paste the links to everyone you know.

http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/New%20Soldier%20Inro.pdf

http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/New%20Soldier.pdf

http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/New%20Soldier%20Epilogue.pdf

[AmericanInTokyo]

There's more up with Kerry. Anybody got the Vietnamese language skills? This in from Communist Vietnam:

http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:lyfoEFy7vowJ:www.tuoitre.com.vn/Tianyon/Index.aspx%3FArticleID%3D22821%26ChannelID%3D20+Kerry,++1968+site:.vn&hl=en

[jpsb]

I'll likely vote for President Bush, but you are correct, he is very much an anti-constitutional elitest. I wish I could vote for a conservative sometime.

[OPS4]

Guess again, the FEC is not stepping in and that is now.
Kerry is toast on this issue and it will show the world how he and the other communists, used the Viet Nam War to gain power in America!

Ops4 God BLess America!

[jpsb]

Are chinesse and vietnamese close? If so I can send this to folks at the office and ask them.

[AmericanInTokyo]

in a sense, yes but it is two different scripts/two different languages.

[jpsb]

OK, well there has got to be a Vietnamese Freeper here somewhere.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Gad! I've pinched myself... Twice!

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[deport]

Now, what is it that I remember about Bradley Smith? Something contentious about his appointment? Big fight? It won't come to me right this minute, but I do remember something.

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Possibly the following:

When Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott submitted the name of Bradley A. Smith in early 1999 for a Republican seat on the Federal Election Commission, he touched off a storm of controversy surrounding what is usually a low-key process. Campaign finance reform advocates cried foul, calling Smith an "anarchist" and a "radical" who would "gut the election laws" and "eviscerate" the FEC.

Meanwhile, Lott played hardball. Backed by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), an ardent foe of campaign finance reform, Lott delayed a vote to confirm Richard Holbrooke as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the hopes of forcing President Clinton to formally nominate Smith. When the dust cleared, a reluctant Clinton nominated Smith, whom the Senate confirmed by a vote of 64 to 35. Smith was sworn in June 26 at a ceremony hosted by the Cato Institute, where he serves as an adjunct scholar.

The firestorm surrounding Smith, a law professor at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, stemmed from his repeated charges that current campaign finance laws are seriously flawed, and that contribution limits should be repealed. In an exclusive interview with Capital Eye, Smith discussed his views of the FEC, his critics, and the campaign finance system.

[Howlin]

Thanks! I knew I "remembered" something.....just couldn't remember what. It's good to have other people around to fill in the blanks in my brain!