Posted on 10/03/2004 6:13:37 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kerry may have violated the rules governing last Thursday's presidential debate.
According to Section 5 (pps 4 and 5) of the Memorandum of Understanding that was negotiated and agreed upon by both the Bush and Kerry campaigns:
(c) No props, notes, charts, diagrams, or other writings or other tangible things may be brought into the debate by either candidate. ...
(d) Notwithstanding subparagraph 5(c), the candidates may take notes during the debate on the size, color and type of paper each side prefers. Each candidate must submit to the staff of the Commission prior to the debate all such paper and any pens or pencils with which a candidate may wish to take notes during the debate, and the staff or commission will place such paper, pens and pencils on the podium, table or other structure to be used by the candidate in that debate.
On Sunday, INDC Journal and Daily Recycler produced a video and close-up stills showing that Senator Kerry apparently violated the rules signed by his campaign.
The video shows Kerry pulling what looks like crib notes from his jacket and placing them on his lectern at the start of the debate.
The website zombietime.com has posted a frame-by-frame view of the event here.
Use of crib notes during the debate would constitute a material breach of Memorandum of Understanding, though it is unclear if Kerry would be sanctioned.
(Excerpt) Read more at mensnewsdaily.com ...
Does this whole situation now bring the Hillary theory into play? When will she make her move re: the sabotage of Kerry?
The RATS will stop at nothing to regain power.
DemocRATs attempting to say that it was a fountain pen that this botoxed geek was pulling from his inside coat pocket is sophomoric.
Was Kerry was looking down a lot during the debate?
I think he scribbled something down (or at least appeared to) early on.... perhaps so that no one would be curious as to why he was looking down all the time.
In the side-by-sides, do we see Kerry looking down a lot while Bush is talking??
I didn't read anything in the Slimes today. I noted the Post had the pen thing without actually looking at the still shots which clearly show paper.
The whole thing just is so weird.
I just sent this email to Fox and Friends.
"If the liberal writer from the NY Post and E.D. think it was a black pen that Kerry pulled from his pocket, show us the best video in slow motion. By the way, even a pen was not allowed according to the rules."
And I saw this geek writing furiously as though working on a new book about his Vietnam experiences: "My 120 Days in 'Nam."
He is a liar and a cheat. But then you knew that.
This is worse than WATERGATE in my opinion!!
So someone beside FR had it before Drudge this time.
I just called the Comission number and the guy on the line said that he had not heard about it. I find that hard to believe.
I do too, maybe he is new there..say..this morning.
(RE "just a fountain pen") Agreed. The image in the still that begins this thread plainly is a card or paper of some sort. The only defense that could begin to be plausible is that this card/paper was the one that the Commission staff pre-placed on the podium ... but the video, in context, strongly suggests that Kerry had just pulled the card/paper from his jacked pocket, not taken it from the podium "desk."
See my post #189 for my prediction of what Kerry's excuses will be. Oh, and also "my staff failed to tell me that there were cameras in back of me."
Stop. You're alarming me. :-/
Just listening to Rush. He basically says the same thing. He says we were to expect it and to let it go or we will wind up hurting the president. 1 more little interesting thing, there now more people registered to vote than there are eligible people in the country. This spells massive voter fraud.
O.k., this is my first post on this subject, but I've been reading all the evidence.
I think the white square is ... his cuff. When he puts his hands in the air a la Evita, you can see his white cuffs. And as fun as it is to speculate, I honestly think the reason it looks like note cards is that both cards and his cuffs are white squares.
Thoughts?
On Hannity and Colmes just a few minutes ago (prior to the Ann Coulter segment) they showed the clip close up of Kerry going to the podium.
It was a pen.
Darn.
So he didn't cheat this time (or at least we don't have smoking gun evidence about it like we thought), but he's still a liar and a traitor.
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