Posted on 10/08/2004 2:59:40 AM PDT by ninonitti
About tonight's debate, Mr. President, can I throw in my two cents' worth of advice?
My credentials? Forget Botox, I knew your opponent before the chin job. I bought him a beer at the Red Hat when he was the poorest, not the richest, member of the U.S. Senate. I was there when his main squeeze, I mean law partner, Roanne Sragow, was approved for a judgeship. Despite what you may have read elsewhere, it wasn't Bob Dole or Billy Bulger who first hung the tag ``Liveshot'' on him. It was me.
Look, you know and I know that he's a phony and a gigolo. So do almost all of the people currently planning to vote for you. Actually, so do most of the voters who are planning to vote for him. They just hate you worse than him, mostly because you're a born-again Christian and a Republican.
Maybe 3 percent of the electorate is up for grabs tonight, and that is what this debate is all about.
My first tip for you is, take a nap today. You can't look as tired tonight as you did last week in Florida.
No matter how dreary it gets, don't look at your watch. Ask Poppy about that one.
If some questioner asks you to say something positive about John Kerry [related, bio], turn to Kerry and tell him, ``Nice cufflinks!''
Try to poke fun at him. He has no sense of humor. You give him the needle and he could get, if not overtly nasty, at least even more haughty. Let the TV audience see the John Kerry we know back here in Massachusetts, the guy who says, ``Do you know who I am?''
No more whining about the presidency being ``hard work.'' To quote an old Hollywood mogul, ``Self-pity is not good box office.''
Charles Gibson is not your friend. He's a Dan Rather's Dan Rather.
Any ``undecided'' male questioner with a ponytail is not really undecided. Neither are women with short hair and sensible shoes.
Go on the offensive on taxes. Point out that as a resident of Massachusetts, Kerry has the option of paying his state income taxes at a higher rate, 5.85 percent, rather than at the standard 5.3 percent, and he refuses to pay at the higher rate.
In other words, folks, he wants to raise your taxes, but not his own.
I know the higher-rate option may not be the simplest thing to explain, but it's a lot easier than the subsection S $591,000 Medicare tax dodge Cheney pinned on the Breck Girl in Cleveland.
Mention how you and Laura have released your tax returns, and his wife won't do the same. Then say that according to what few records of Teresa's that have been released, in 2003 she prepaid $750,000 on an income of $5.1 million (a mere fraction of her real income), an effective rate of 15 percent.
Folks, you should say, if you're making $40,000 a year, you're paying a higher percentage of your income in taxes than Mama T, and she's a billionaire on the Forbes 400 list.
The most liberal member of the U.S. Senate. Hammer that fact home. Quote the National Journal, the ``nonpartisan National Journal.''
Kerry is not a sports fan. Manny Ortiz, Lambert Field, touting the Ohio State Buckeyes in Michigan - you know the screwups. Tonight he'll be well-briefed on the major, i.e., Red Sox stuff, so ask him what team Roger Clemens pitches for now. I guarantee you he doesn't have a clue. Ask him who the quarterback of the Raiders is, or the Jets, or the Eagles. Ditto.
These are not trick questions. The only male Americans who do not know the answers are metrosexuals and girly-men. And John Edwards [related, bio], but I repeat myself.
President Bush:
Here's something else you want to ask him: Why didn't you notify Virginia Buckingham, Massport Executive Director, who was responsible for overseeing Logan that the airport was at risk from jihad?????
I moved back to Boston almost 5 years ago to find that the city was no longer the city of my youth.
9/11/01, 10:00 a.m., I told a friend that there was no way that the terrorists could have flown out of Logan without help.
A few weeks ago, I learned that Kerry wrote a book about Logan's security problems in 1997. Why was this a topic of interest for the junior senator?
Did he notify Virgina Buckingham then Executive Director of Massport? Think not... If you look back in the archives - Buckingham was taken by surprise like everyone else.
Now this, posted on Free Republic today below.
OFFICIAL: KERRY FAILED TO ACT ON PRE-9/11 TIP (REVISITED)
World Net Daily ^ | March 19, 2004 | Paul Sperry
DAY OF INFAMY 2001 - Official: Kerry failed to act on pre-9/11 tip
3rd agent to say he warned security lapses made Boston airport ripe for 'jihad' attack
Posted: March 19, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Paul Sperry © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON – A third federal aviation-security agent, one still with the government, has stepped forward to say he also warned Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry about security lapses at Boston's Logan International Airport before the 9-11 hijackings there.
Earlier this week, two former FAA agents said the Democratic presidential hopeful failed to take effective action after they gave him a prophetic warning that his home airport was vulnerable to multiple hijackings.
Brian Sullivan, a retired special agent from the Boston area, advised Kerry in a May 7, 2001, letter (page 1, page 2) that Logan was ripe for a "jihad" suicide operation possibly involving "a coordinated attack." He cited serious breaches at Logan security checkpoints exposed by an undercover investigation he and another former agent helped a Boston TV news station conduct.
Sullivan says he had a copy of the undercover videotape hand-delivered to Kerry's office.
It turns out the person who delivered it was a senior FAA agent in Washington who's now with the Transportation Security Administration. The agent, Bogdan Dzakovic, headed covert testing of airport security across the country before TSA took over aviation security from FAA after 9-11.
In an exclusive interview, he says he gave the tape to Jamie Wise, a Kerry staffer at the time.
After the office visit, "I received no feedback from anyone there," Dzakovic told WorldNetDaily.
Kerry boasts in campaign ads he "sounded the alarm on terrorism years before 9-11."
But he waited three months to reply to Sullivan's letter. And his July 24, 2001, letter, a copy of which was obtained by WorldNetDaily, merely offers to pass Sullivan's warning on to the Transportation Department's inspector general – even though Sullivan had made it clear in his letter that going to his old agency was a dead end. He and other agents, including Dzakovic, had complained about security lapses for years and got nowhere.
"The DOT OIG has become an ineffective overseer of the FAA," Sullivan told Kerry.
He suggested Kerry show the tape to peers on committees with FAA oversight. He even volunteered to testify before them.
Yet the correspondence stopped there. Kerry never followed up with him.
"He just did the Washington shuffle," said Sullivan, who thinks Kerry had a chance to prevent the Boston hijackings.
Another former agent, Steve Elson, who set up the TV sting at Logan, tried to follow up with Kerry, but was told by Wise he wasn't a constituent. (Elson, formerly of the elite Red Team that did covert testing, was a Houston field agent at the time.)
He came unglued, warning the staffer that if Kerry didn't act soon he'd risk the lives of planeloads of his actual constituents.
"What would the senator say if a large plane filled with holiday travelers took off from Logan at Thanksgiving for somewhere in California and went – boom – spattering men, women, children and babies all over the landscape at a couple of hundred knots?" demanded Elson, an ex-Navy SEAL.
His warning now looks like prophecy: At least 82 Kerry constituents were murdered aboard American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175.
Elson says he also dealt with Gregg Rothschild, Kerry's legislative director at the time. Attempts to reach him were unsuccessful.
Dzakovic laments the lack of attention to their warnings.
"We could have fed fish at the aquarium and accomplished just as much," he said.
Sullivan is perhaps the most frustrated. His two-page warning to Kerry four months before the Logan hijackings was eerily prescient.
"With the concept of jihad, do you think it would be difficult for a determined terrorist to get on a plane and destroy himself and all other passengers?" he wrote. "Think what the result would be of a coordinated attack which took down several domestic flights on the same day. With our current screening, this is more than possible. It is almost likely."
The toll from such an attack would be economic, as well as human, he predicted with chilling accuracy.
And the Logan security failures he highlighted in the letter included breaches at the very checkpoints the hijackers would later exploit.
The undercover investigation by Fox affiliate WFXT in Boston showed crews penetrating security checkpoints at Logan with knives and other weapons in nine of 10 tries.
Elson says the crew, led by reporter Deborah Sherman, walked through with Leatherman tools concealed in fanny packs. The Leatherman is a fancy utility knife. The 9-11 hijackers used utility knives. Sherman says she also had no luck getting Kerry to act on the video he apparently saw.
"It was always being 'reviewed' every time I called," she said. "There was no comment or action taken on the senator's part other than passing the tape along to someone else."
Sullivan – a registered independent who's also critical of Bush's handling of aviation security, both before and since 9-11 – thinks Kerry could have saved the Twin Towers, which were toppled by the Boston jetliners, and thousands of lives.
"John Kerry should have – and could have – prevented 9-11," he said.
How? "He could have taken direct action to address the concerns we had identified by visiting Logan and the MassPort authorities at Logan or the Massachusetts State Police," he said.
If that didn't work to bring about corrective action, he could have applied political pressure by having Sullivan and other agents testify before Congress, he says.
"Enhanced security would have prevented the hijackings, virtually without question," Elson agreed. If nothing else, it might have discouraged ringleader Mohamed Atta, who monitored security procedures at Logan weeks before the hijackings.
Phone calls to Kerry's campaign were not returned.
Right after 9-11, he told the Boston Globe that he'd triggered an undercover probe of Logan security by the General Accounting Office in June 2001, based on the TV report.
Only, he wrote Sullivan no such thing in his July letter, stating only that he passed his warning and the tape on to Transportation, not GAO.
And GAO, the investigative arm of Congress, did not test security at Logan. (Kerry confessed he didn't know the outcome of the probe he says he initiated.)
GAO spokesman Jeff Nelligan says there is no evidence Kerry requested anything specific with regard to Logan, although he says GAO had communications with "a number of interested members and staff, including Sen. John Kerry's office" about airport screener testing work in 2001.
He would not elaborate.
Sullivan and Elson, joined by aviation-security experts David Forbes and Andrew Thomas, want to see Kerry called before the 9-11 Commission, as well as President Bush, to answer questions about what he knew about Logan's lapses, and specifically what he did about them, before that fateful day. They also recommend GAO and Transportation officials testify to sort out discrepancies in Kerry's story.
Calls to the panel were not immediately returned.
"We don't have to wait for a tragedy to occur to act," Sullivan urged Kerry in his letter.
Paul Sperry is Washington bureau chief for WorldNetDaily and author of "Crude Politics."
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Out the metrosexual and girly man in John F*ckin' by asking him if his idea of sexual equality includes living off a woman. Out the liberal in Liveshot by reminding the audience his Senate voting record is to the LEFT of Ted Kennedy and that of fellow Democrats. Unmask him for the phony he's been all his life.
Ask him how much allowance Teraaayza gives him per week.
W should work into one of his replies that "..I took a lot of hits in the press about my demeanor in the last debate. It was hard to just stand there and hear my Mother's advice about not calling a man a liar in public. It caused me a lot of pain to hear what Kerry was saying while still trying to give a US Senator the respect the office deserves....
Any ``undecided'' male questioner with a ponytail is not really undecided. Neither are women with short hair and sensible shoes.
"John Kerry's Senate career isn't as distinguished as that of his colleague. He won't tell you about his Senate record. I will."
Metrosexuals and feminazis usually come in with their minds already made up. That's how you can spot them from a mile away. Beware, Mr. President.
You have zeroed in on exactly what my husband and I discussed in the car on the way home last night. My husband can hold his own very well in a debate and he said, to begin with, President Bush should take off those nice gloves and focus the audience on Kerry's record as the most liberal Senator. With the President, what you see is what you get..We loved his body language because it said to the viewing audience, "Those are lies and distortions you are hearing and I can hardly stand here in this forum and tolerate all that doublespeak." I think liberal Democrats, including the elite media, have been so used to living in the muck of dishonesty and practicing, "the end justifies the means morality," that they have forgotten that integrity even exists.
"Do you know who I am?"
Perhaps the most often heard phrase from Kerry or Fat Teddy around these parts...
Well done, Howie!
Mr President, a word or two, of advice, from a knuckle-dragger.
TAKE THE GLOVES OFF EARLY AND WHALE ON THE TURD!
"We're gonna grab the Hun by the nose and kick him in the a$$! I don't ever want to hear messages that we're going to hold. Let the hun do that. We're gonna ADVANCE!"--Gen Patton.
"ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK! " --Bull Halsey
Yeah Kerry makes Kennedy look like a flamin' moderate. The radicalism of his views need to painted in bold colors to the American people.
Senator Kerry. Is it true that your Senate voting record is to the LEFT that it interfears with the Japanese fishing fleet?
Anyhoo ... as for "No matter how dreary it gets, don't look at your watch." ... better yet ... DON'T WEAR ONE TONIGHT!
ping
As Howie pointed out last night - Ketchup boy has at least 5 bicycles (so as not to have to go without).
I think that W should give Howie a call as he has a vast supply of zingers to needle Ketchupboy.
Funny, but not true. As I have pointed out before, there are men such as myself who just do not follow team sports. As for the external masculine credentials, I am a happily married man with two kids. I enjoy woodworking and handyman stuff around the house. I have to ask my wife if my shirt goes with my pants. I put off getting a haircut as long as I can, then I get it at Fantastic Sams. But I just don't care about football or any other team sport. I don't know the names of the teams or the players.
Maybe Bush should ask Kerry if he got jealous when the media started probing Michael Moore's underwear, and then ask Kerry too take a stand on what the court in Louisiana did this week.
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