Posted on 10/18/2004 8:45:36 AM PDT by You Dirty Rats
John Kerry's sister said at a "Women for Kerry" rally Sunday at Sawyer Point that President Bush has waged "war against women" and that her brother will be a champion for women if he's elected president Nov. 2. "We're on the eve of the most important election of our lives, certainly that is true for women," Peggy Kerry told about 1,500 people -- some men along with mostly women -- at the rally on the banks of the Ohio River.
"W stands for the war against women," she said. "This is what my brother stands for -- it can all be summed up in three words: The Supreme Court.
"It's not just about defending Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court is also so important for environmental rights and for affirmative action."
Kerry's older sister complained that women are paid an average of 76 percent of what men are paid.
"That is not fair," she said. "Let me tell you what my brother is going to fight for -- pay equity."
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, daughter of John Gilligan of Cincinnati, a former Ohio governor and now a Cincinnati school board member, told the rally that Ohio has lost a lot of jobs while Bush has been president.
"One of the reasons that jobs continue to be lost is we have an administration that doesn't understand that outsourcing jobs is not good for America," she said.
"We need good jobs within the borders of this great country."
Sebelius, who was joined by her father on stage, also blamed the high cost of health care insurance on Bush.
"For four years we've had a president who has no health care plan and we have 45 million Americans without health care insurance, and that's an outrage," she said.
Many in the crowd also made statements of their own with signs that derided Bush.
Carol Smith, who drove 125 miles to the rally from her home in Corydon, Ind., walked around the rally with a sign on her back that said, "Kerry to the White House. Cheney to the Jail House. Bush to the Nut House."
"This man (Bush) is not capable of running his own life, let alone the country," she said. "The man should be in a nut house.
"He is absolutely unfit to be president. Do you want the president of the United States, a mental case, with his finger on the red button?"
State Rep. Catherine Barrett of College Hill reminded rally goers that the 9-11 terrorist attacks on America "happened on the watch" of Bush.
"We want no more 9-11s," she said. "We want no more wars. We want no more lies."
Eve Bolton, a teacher in suburban Wyoming, criticized Bush for not being an "education president."
"If we lose the White House again, it is very possible we will lose public education," she said. "There are people who want to dismantle public education. Those people will be stopped if John Kerry is elected president."
Cincinnati Board of Education President Florence Newell said the W. in George W. Bush stands for "wrong for education."
"President Bush has under-funded 'No Child Left Behind' by more than $25 billion," she said. "What's right for education? Sen. John Kerry for president."
Former Cincinnati Mayor Roxanne Qualls, the rally's master of ceremonies, urged women to vote Nov. 2, a common theme among all rally speakers.
Peggy Kerry noted that 22 million women didn't vote in the 2000 presidential election.
"We've got to reach out to them and explain to them they must vote because our lives depend on it," she said. "It's up to the women because when women vote, Democrats win."
Publication Date: 10-18-2004
Was she nearly naked like Hanoi John's daughter, the slut was?
if anybody is waging a war against women, i'd look at the guy who divorced his wife whilst she was recovering from severe depression, had the marriage anulled, and made his two daughters instant bastards.
war on women indeed! look a little closer to home, toots!
""Let me tell you what my brother is going to fight for -- pay equity." "
Ahhh, the old pay equity canard. So he's for affirmative action. No news here.
I don't know -- I had better things to do with my time Sunday, like watching my Browns destroy the Bengals at Cleveland Browns Stadium!
Kerry is tired of marrying bazillionnairesses and being dumped with chump change. sKerry wants all former boy toys to be sent packing with enough money that they too, can one day become a sugar daddy.
Let's hope that she does as well for President Bush as she did for Prime Minister John Howard!!! I say let her spout off her shrill rhetoric all day long..
More "stuck in the 60's relics". When are they going to grow up and join the new century.?
Sorry, I forgot my </sarc> tag.
What does John stand for?
I thought it was Diana who lost her coup d' etat try in Australia. You mean there's another spawn? Dust jamn...
Oh puhleez. Her remarks about education are shrill. We already pump BILLIONS are dollars into education and it still isn't working. So why does she want to pump MORE into it? Its a failing system and dumping more money into it isn't the answer. Yet again, more money and more government are always the answers for any liberal question.
To understand the Kerry family is to understand dad. Richard Kerry wrote in his book, The Star-Spangled Mirror, published in 1990:
"Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white. They celebrate their own form of government and denigrate all others, making them guilty of what he calls 'ethnocentric accommodation' -- everyone ought to be like us. As a result, America has committed the 'fatal error' of 'propagating democracy' and fallen prey to 'the siren's song of promoting human rights,' falsely assuming that our values and institutions are a good fit in the Third World. And, just as Americans exaggerate their own goodness, they exaggerate their enemies' badness. The Soviet Union wasn't nearly as imperialistic as American politicians warned. Seeing the Soviet Union as the aggressor in every instance, and the U.S. as only reacting defensively, relieves an American observer from the need to see any parallel between our use of military power in distant parts of the world, and the Soviet use of military power outside the Soviet Union. . . . Third world Marxist movements were autonomous national movements -- outside Moscow's orbit."
More quotes and facts on the John F. Kerry Timeline.
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This is Kerry's other sister.
And I still read no plan of action details. Just a lot of fearful ideas thrown to the crowd and Bush is the bogeyman. And the statement that 9/11 happened on Bushs watch is SO easy to refute. I hope the women in that crowd think for themselves.
If I could find a woman who would do what my guys do, at 76% of the salary, don't you think I would hire her?
Do you think I pay that alleged 24% just to have a guy on board?
"This man (Bush) is not capable of running his own life, let alone the country."
What has Bush done to imply that he isn't capable of running his own life? I would really like to know. As always, the dummiecraps are just talking to hear themselves speak when the know nothing.
This is the woman, Kerry's sister, who HE sent to Australia to undermine the latest election. As it turned out, the conservatives remained in power and today remains a strong friend of America. What is bad for America is good for Kerry....and his sister tried to turn the Aussies against America...which indeed would have been bad for America.
"That is not fair," she said. "Let me tell you what my brother is going to fight for -- pay equity."
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