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Real Hardball by John Kerry (this full-of-himself idiot posted at daily Kos website)
dailykos ^ | Fri Jan 20, 2006 at 03:52:31 PM PDT | J Kerry

Posted on 01/20/2006 7:06:55 PM PST by dennisw

There's something that doesn't sit right with me when, on the day Osama Bin Laden resurfaced in a disturbing audio tape, cable television ends up in a game of name calling as a war protester is compared to Osama Bin Laden.

That's reason to be outraged - but even more outrageous is the fact that in a flurry of sound bites what was lost was a real discussion of the fact that more than four years after the devastating attacks of 9/11, more than four years after George Bush boasted we wanted Osama "dead or alive," more than a year after Osama Bin Laden showed his hateful face in yet another video, this barbarian is still very much alive and boasting of additional attacks against the United States.

John Kerry's diary :: :: Here's what I'd like to see debated on Hardball.

President Bush's mouthpiece Scott McClellan can claim this administration puts terrorists out of business, but yesterday's tape reminds us that instead of being out of business, Osama is still out there.

If this administration had followed through on the opportunity to capture Osama Bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001, the world would be a better place with Osama Bin Laden brought to justice -- and we wouldn't be having this discussion today.

And here's what the media should insist we discuss.

President Bush and his defenders continue to claim that Osama Bin Laden didn't escape at Tora Bora. But Gary Bernstein's book Jawbreaker documents what I said early in 2002 and during my debates with George Bush: that because Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon didn't use American troops to do the job and instead outsourced the job of killing the world's #1 terrorist to Afghan warlords, this cold blooded killer got away.

So what's the truth? There's a question that the full force of cable television should demand be answered. Press accounts over the last month have raised new concerns about the reliance on Afghan forces at Tora Bora in 2001. One account cited a Department of Defense document said to summarize the case against a suspected al Qaeda militant. The militant was believed to have helped Osama bin Laden escape from Tora Bora. More recently, August Hanning, the head of German intelligence, has said bin Laden bribed Afghan forces at Tora Bora to make his escape.

The evidence keeps mounting:

Isn't it time we had the truth? Yes or no, did Osama Bin Laden escape from Tora Bora in 2001?

Here's a subject suited for true hard ball, on Hardball: four years of failure - enough is enough - why hasn't Osama Bin Laden been captured or killed, and how will he be destroyed before he next appears on tape to spread his disgusting message?

That discussion -- rather than criticizing American citizens who exercise their right to free speech and express dissenting opinions - is the discussion that America needs. That would be the kind of debate on Hardball to which we should all tune in.

John Kerry

P.S. I want you all to know that I’m reading your many comments. My wife Teresa reads blogs passionately, and I follow blogs too, and I’m glad I can be a part of this – and frankly I’m not worried about taking some slings and arrows along the way. I’ve faced worse! So keep the comments coming -- good, bad, hopefully not indifferent.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: binladen; dailykos; johnfkerrysucks; kerry; kerry2008; kos
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To: dennisw

Okay, so what evidence that this is the golddigger/Purple Heart fraud/Demoncratic candidate we all know and love. Hey His Kerriness and his ATM wife wouldn't be caught dead hanging around the Kos crowd. It's sooo blue collar...


61 posted on 01/20/2006 7:58:20 PM PST by hatfieldmccoy (Satan has a new name and it is Islam)
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To: Arizona Carolyn
but even she doesn't have enough money to buy him a personality.

Or a clue.

62 posted on 01/20/2006 7:59:54 PM PST by Rocko (Liberals -- filled with a compassion you always hear about, but never witness.)
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To: okie01
I have a feeling Kos verified it was him. They wouldn't want to be embarassed when posters agreed with him and then later they'd have to remove it, and replace it with a "I knew it wasn't him!" thread.

Kerry obsession with Tora Bora and outsourcing are trademarks.

63 posted on 01/20/2006 8:00:59 PM PST by Darkwolf377
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To: USNBandit

I know the record of John McCain. I'll respect his service, but that doesn't make his sh!t gold. In fact, like Kerry, I see very little I like in McCain at all. He should take his act on the road and run with Hillary...and he probably would if asked.


64 posted on 01/20/2006 8:01:08 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (The problem with being a 'big tent' Party is that the clowns are seated with the paying customers.)
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To: Darkwolf377
Kerry obsession with Tora Bora and outsourcing are trademarks.

The meter is him, too. Imagine him reading it aloud.

One of his speechwriters wrote it.

65 posted on 01/20/2006 8:09:19 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Darkwolf377

Are you questioning his patriotism? He served in Vietnam you know.


66 posted on 01/20/2006 8:09:48 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: Tx Angel

Osamas bin dead and buried.
Yap he sure is, think of all the hell the weirdos in Hollywood go thru to hide from the media. I have not seen Bin Dead once, since Tora Bora! Yap, he is dead Jim,,,,lol!


67 posted on 01/20/2006 8:09:53 PM PST by meanie monster (http://guptonator.myvideochat.net)
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To: BigTom85

Don't forget Teresa--she was a lot of fun too.


68 posted on 01/20/2006 8:11:26 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: dennisw; WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

BFLR - ping...


69 posted on 01/20/2006 8:11:40 PM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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To: All

With all the references to HardBall, it might be Chrissy.


70 posted on 01/20/2006 8:13:27 PM PST by Portrait of a Lady
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To: beaversmom

Kerry served in Vietnam? Who knew?


71 posted on 01/20/2006 8:19:08 PM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: dennisw
P.S. I want you all to know that I’m reading your many comments. My wife Teresa reads blogs passionately, and I follow blogs too, and I’m glad I can be a part of this –

Was Kerry wearing his pajamas when he wrote to the Kos blog?

72 posted on 01/20/2006 8:22:15 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight
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To: dennisw
I want you all to know that I’m reading your many comments. My wife Teresa reads blogs passionately, and I follow blogs too, and I’m glad I can be a part of this

Well John, may I call you John? You must be reading FR too. You see, on the Web, we are the 800 lbs gorilla in the bed room, so to speak. We've spanked journalists, congressmen, and even a president, John.

So John, would you be so kind as to sign your SF 180? Thanks in advance...maybe we can then find out if the medic got all those kernels of rice out of your a$$.

Oh, and one more thing John, say 'high' to Teresa for me.

5.56mm

73 posted on 01/20/2006 8:23:02 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: dennisw
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Hope you got a pre-Nup Johnny boy cause your slut wife only puts up with you in anticipation of her ticket to the White House. If I were you I would be looking over my shoulder for the divorce lawyers and the eviction crew.

74 posted on 01/20/2006 8:23:42 PM PST by WideGlide (That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
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To: All

I think I'm going to puke. You should read some of the comments and one says it's been confirmed that it is Kerry by Markos.

Here's an example:

Puleezzzzzz....... (4.00 / 2)

John Kerry is highly intelligent and articulate. Why would anyone assume he can't write his own diary.

And if you're reading these comments please pass on good wishes to that great lady you married.

(BARF)


75 posted on 01/20/2006 8:28:08 PM PST by jdhljc169
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To: dennisw
Hey, I have an idea.

How about I criticize the efficacy and integrity of the US Armed Forces while they are in harm's way then try to become their Commander in Chief!!!
76 posted on 01/20/2006 8:30:28 PM PST by msnimje (Senate Democrats ----------- Sound and Furry Signifying INSIGNIFICANCE)
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To: cgk

I could hear that foghorn drone of his through every wretched word of that miserable little screed.

Thanks for the ping!


77 posted on 01/20/2006 8:38:38 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Yes. The man really does have a dog named "Splash".)
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To: dennisw

78 posted on 01/20/2006 8:39:00 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
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To: msnimje

That should be good for about 50 million votes.

God help us all.


79 posted on 01/20/2006 8:39:41 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Yes. The man really does have a dog named "Splash".)
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To: Darkwolf377

Not to defend the Senator, but we declared war on Germany on Dec 10, 1941. By April 30, 1945 Hitler was dead and everyone knew it. Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. That's about 3.5 yrs by my count.

Bush declared war on AQ and "dead or alive" right after 9/11. We're now coming up on 4.5 yrs this March and Osama is still out there.

It seems like he's lasted longer than the Fuehrer did by at least a year.

Bush has done a lot of things right but he's failed in getting Osama and if he leaves office in 2009 and Osama is still making tapes that'll be an even bigger failure.

If Clinton had gone 4.5 yrs without getting Osama I know all the conservatives would be all over him. But one rarely sees conservatives criticize Bush for failing to get Osama.


80 posted on 01/20/2006 8:39:42 PM PST by jeltz25
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