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Kerry grills nominee over Swift boat [Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., grilled nominee Sam Fox...]
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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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gigolo; jeanfrancois; kerry; samfox; swiftboatvets
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such nonsense.........
1 posted on 02/27/2007 6:05:07 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

John Kerry is a flea.


2 posted on 02/27/2007 6:06:49 PM PST by johniegrad
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To: Sub-Driver

Kerry's a first-class jackass.


3 posted on 02/27/2007 6:07:15 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: Sub-Driver

Kerry's acting like a child. Nothing new there.


4 posted on 02/27/2007 6:07:15 PM PST by saganite
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To: Sub-Driver

You can practically hear the 'waaaaaaaah...'


5 posted on 02/27/2007 6:07:27 PM PST by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Are you now or have you ever participated in the politics of personal destruction???

Hillery!'s mantra seems to be working.


6 posted on 02/27/2007 6:08:04 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I wish Kerry would ask me what I think of him in front a FOX camera.


7 posted on 02/27/2007 6:08:13 PM PST by U S Army EOD (Support your local EOD Detachment)
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To: Sub-Driver
This guy wussed out. He should have either said:

Senator, my donations to political causes have no bearing whatsoever on this job, so I refuse to answer.

Or, he should have told the truth, and said, "Well Senator, I didn't want you to be President, and by the way, you still haven't released your military records".

8 posted on 02/27/2007 6:08:27 PM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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The group of Vietnam veterans made unsubstantiated allegations against Kerry

Bullsh!t!!! WHICH ALLEGATION WAS PROVEN UNTRUE???

9 posted on 02/27/2007 6:08:43 PM PST by digger48
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For giving $50,000 to the Swifties, this guy should get a cabinet slot or maybe the VP in 2008. Kerry should get slapped and sent to bed without his supper - what a putz.


10 posted on 02/27/2007 6:09:40 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth ("Don't tread on me" - the motto of Patriots. "May I lick your boots?" - the motto of RINOs.)
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...group of Vietnam veterans made unsubstantiated allegations against Kerry...

Really? Name one.

11 posted on 02/27/2007 6:10:46 PM PST by txroadkill
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To: Sub-Driver

Bringing partisan politics in to a senate hearing? Gotta love those lifetime senators.


12 posted on 02/27/2007 6:11:07 PM PST by somemoreequalthanothers (All for the betterment of "the state", comrade)
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To: Sub-Driver

I can't believe that to this day, the media still insists that the SBVT are liars.

Oh, BTW, long-faced John, did you sign that 180 yet?


13 posted on 02/27/2007 6:11:15 PM PST by American_Centurion (No, I don't trust the government to automatically do the right thing.)
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To: Sub-Driver

You lost Kerry. Time to figure it out. It's over.


14 posted on 02/27/2007 6:11:36 PM PST by Hattie
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To: Sub-Driver
Thanks Mr. Heinz,you put your record on the front pages again.

Only a moron would do such a thing.

15 posted on 02/27/2007 6:12:13 PM PST by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served, to keep us free.)
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the group of Vietnam veterans made unsubstantiated allegations against Kerry

Unsubstantiated? HA!

16 posted on 02/27/2007 6:12:27 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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But Kerry said the incident raised questions about Fox's fitness to serve as an ambassador.

Kerry's back-stabbing behaviour after Vietnam raises questions about his fitness to serve as a US Senator.

17 posted on 02/27/2007 6:13:07 PM PST by DTogo (I haven't left the GOP, the GOP left me.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

You are being kind. This jerk off is a disgrace to the Navy I served in for 26 years. My only regret is that I donated to the Swifities and I won't get to be face to face with this pretender.


18 posted on 02/27/2007 6:14:25 PM PST by mortal19440
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To: Sub-Driver

The thing that amazes me most about this is that Kerry was actually at "work" for a change.


19 posted on 02/27/2007 6:14:31 PM PST by isthisnickcool (Oh! The Obamanation! Durka durka durka...)
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To: Sub-Driver

Bttt...


20 posted on 02/27/2007 6:14:44 PM PST by tubebender ( Everything east of the San Andreas fault will eventually plunge into the Atlantic Ocean...)
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