Posted on 02/27/2007 6:05:02 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Kerry grills nominee over Swift boat By SAM HANANEL, Associated Press Writer 22 minutes ago
A Senate hearing that began with glowing tributes to a St. Louis businessman and his qualifications to become ambassador to Belgium turned bitterly divisive Tuesday after he was criticized for supporting a controversial conservative group.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., grilled nominee Sam Fox about why he donated $50,000 to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth during the 2004 presidential race. The group of Vietnam veterans made unsubstantiated allegations against Kerry — then the Democratic presidential nominee — and charged that Kerry did not deserve the medals he won in the Vietnam War.
"Might I ask you what your opinion is with respect to the state of American politics as regards the politics of personal destruction?" Kerry asked near the end of the hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Fox, one of the nation's most generous contributors to Republican candidates and causes, said he shared Kerry's concerns that politics "has become mean and destructive."
Fox said he didn't recall who asked him to give to the group and blamed partisans on both sides for contributing to so-called 527 groups that are not subject to conventional campaign finance rules.
"So is that your judgment that you would bring to the ambassadorship, that two wrongs make a right?" Kerry asked.
"I did it because politically it's necessary if the other side's doing it," Fox said.
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A blatant example of a lie in a supposed "news" story. This "journalist" should be FIRED.
The Swift Boat veterans did NOT make "unsubstatiated allegations". The writer of this garbage editorialized and/or lied in that line right there.
Really? Name one.
Don't you know!!! They said that Kerry could never have been in Cambodia in Christmas 1968 under Richard Nixon's orders (a memory SEARED into Kerry's mind) merely because Nixon wasn't president, and there were no orders or witnesses confirming Kerry's accusations.
It doesn't get any more "unsubstantiated" in the MSM than that for a Dem.
Thanks! IMO that is a very apt pose for a mentally deranged, degenerate person! Too bad Sam Fox had to put up with such a opportunistic moron. Or was it just "pay back" time for a pathetic Senator Kerry? What a joke on the people of Massachusetts!
I almost fell out of my chair laughing when I heard that this morning.
Good one.
John Kerry is plain No Good. Punishing a man for his political contributions is a typical Stalinist response. This scum climbed on the back of his comrades to make a political career for himself. He defamed an entire generation of good men from Vietnam service with his treacherous lies. He ran those damned Winter soldier hearings with a bunch of fake Marines and bums who lied about their service. He smeared vets with his phony "Ghengis Khan" comparison. When Jon Kerry dies, I will drive out of my way to piss on his grave...Spit too. He is sthe lowest form of preppy oportunist. Screw him.
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