Posted on 02/28/2007 11:59:35 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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 accused of 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.
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.
No one has stood up to a crooked New England Senator like your wish since Howard Hughes.
Yes, Senator Kerry, I did donate to the Swift Vets, and thats my right to do so.
"By the way Senator, what was it that makes you upset about the Swift Vets anyway?"
Kerry and his media supporters are doing precisely the same things they try to hang on their opponents. The Swift Vets had dozens of eyewitnesses who signed legal affidavits. Calling their accounts "unsubstantiated" is itself a baseless smear.
"The group of Vietnam veterans made unsubstantiated allegations against Kerry
That statement blows this article out of the water. Stating lies as fact was perfected by the Nazis in the 30's."
Yep. Rather paTHetic.
On Fox H&C John Oneil is on and the showed some video of Kerry
at the hearing. Kerry looks bad.
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