Posted on 10/08/2006 1:40:37 PM PDT by bitt
DES MOINES, Iowa --Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry lashed out Sunday against a group that bashed him during his last run at the White House.
Kerry, who made a weekend appearance in northwest Iowa, said he is concerned that Swift Vote Veterans for Truth is again resorting to "the politics of fear and smear." The group, financed by Texas conservatives, ran commercials questioning his claim of being a decorated Vietnam veteran -- the centerpiece of his presidential campaign in 2004.
"We're not going to give them an ounce of daylight," said Kerry, who is considering another run at the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.
The senator said his response to the commercials was not strong enough.
"We thought the fact that the truth was out there was enough," he said. "Clearly it wasn't."
Those same conservatives have formed another group this year -- Economic Freedom Fund -- and are attacking Democrats across the country. Part of the campaign includes $500,000 to bash Rep. Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa, who is seeking re-election in the 3rd District in central Iowa.
Boswell is being challenged by state Republican Senate President Jeff Lamberti of Ankeny in a race that has included significant cash from both parties.
Boswell retired after 20 years in the Army, including two tours in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot. But the conservative group has chosen to focus on issues ranging from higher taxes to immigration. Part of the group's money is also funding an automated telephone campaign against Boswell.....
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
I STILL laugh at that cartoon.....you can almost hear the droning voice.....
great motion!
Hey Dimwit Kerry....you got a Purple Heart Medal that you did NOTHING heroic to earn, but you have a BLACK Heart that you have REALLY earned by being such a lying traitor!!
Thanks. Big appolgy to dad. Somehow I am logged in as amy better half.
I am sure he agrees...!
...if slugs actually "run".
<< "We thought the fact that the Truth was out there was enough," he said. "Clearly it wasn't." >>
Yes it was, you phony, treasonous, bastard.
You were beaten by an honest and honorable and - not to forget - more intelligent, man.
What part of "You had your arse kicked," are you having the most difficulty with?
Someone please post the "Vietnamese Veterans for Kerry" cartoon??
<< Traitor Kerry ping.
Why doesn't he just sign his 180 to prove the Swifties wrong? >>
Treasonous bastard's got the tar baby by both hands and legs, that's why.
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LOL!
Mailed in your 180 yet, Johnny?
No?
Oh.
<< LOL...for such a bold faced lie, he's lucky God doesn't send down a bolt and strike him butt ugly.
And passing for Lurch's twin brother isn't UGLY?? >>
Frome my lofty perch as FR's self-annointed, self-appointed and self-perpetuating King of the Tongue-in-Cheek and/or Seriously Sarcastic Snide Sneer, I'd say he got it already.
In trumps!
 The Official Bird
of the 2008 John F'n Kerry Campaign. ...THE YELLOW CHICKEN. (I have a |
AUGUST 24, 2004 : (C.R.E.W. GOES AFTER THE SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TRUTH aka SWIFTIES WITH A FOIA REQUEST...)
To: National Desk
Contact: Melanie Sloan of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, 202-588-5565
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 [2004]/U.S. Newswire/ -- Earlier today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) with the White House asking it to detail its contacts with individuals connected to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT).
CREW asked the White House to release information regarding contacts between the Executive Office of the President and: any member of SBVT; SBVT donors Harlan Crow, Bob J. Perry and Paraclete Armor & Equipment; Merrie Spaeth, who has coordinated the public relations efforts of SBVT; any employee of Stevens Reed Curcio & Poltholm, the advertising agency that has made SBVT's commercials; Rupprath and Associates, the detective agency that gathered the SBVT affidavits; SBVT fundraiser The McIntosh Company; and Kenneth Cordier, a former member of the Bush campaign's veterans steering committee.
The White House has claimed no involvement with SBVT or the group's anti-Kerry campaign ads, a claim undermined by recent revelations that Cordier, who appears in one of SBVT's advertisements was on the Bush campaign's veterans steering committee at the time he made the ad, and by the fact that a Kerry campaign volunteer picked up a flier for SBVT at the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign offices in Gainesville, Florida.
CREW's executive director Melanie Sloan stated "Despite evidence to the contrary, the Bush Administration has repeatedly claimed that it has nothing to do with SBVT or its ads. If this is true, then the White House should have no qualms about releasing information regarding any contacts between White House officials and those connected with SBVT."
Sloan decided to send the FOIA after reading that, upon being asked whether she had worked with White House officials, SBVT public relations coordinator Merrie Spaeth said "The answer is 'no' unless you refresh my memory." (NYT 8/20/04).
Sloan said that she was also skeptical of Bush political advisor Karl Rove's claim that he has not spoken with his friend and large Republican donor Bob Perry in over a year.
The FOIA was sent, said Sloan, "to gather the information Ms. Spaeth, Karl Rove and others may need to have their memories refreshed as to whether or not SBVT illegally coordinated with the White House."
A copy of CREW's FOIA request can be found on the Web at http://www.citizensforethics.org ---------- "CREW FOIAs White House Contacts with Swift Boat Veterans Group," U.S. Newswire, August 25, 2004 , http://www.usnewswire.com/
<< But you've gotta admire Kerry's tenacity, an honest man would have skulked away with his tail between his legs
He has something else tucked between his legs .... >>
.... And, like the Dims' thunder-thighed and tree-trunk-ankled pathetically plasticked pretender to the throne (particularly) -- and pretty much every other sufferer of the Power Lust [A noxious weed that flourishes only in the vacant lots of the (dangerously) empty minds of similarly self-absorbed simpletons] -- presents with every symptom of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, including:
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
(1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance; (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
(2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love;
(3) believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
(4) requires excessive admiration;
(5) has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his expectations;
(6) is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his own ends;
(7) lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others;
(8) is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him;
(9) shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.
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