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Kerry’s critics swing back
The Patriot Ledger ^ | Nov 6, 2007 | Tom Benner

Posted on 11/06/2007 6:38:16 PM PST by Phil Harmonic

BOSTON - A liar. A traitor. Hanoi John.

U.S. Sen. John Kerry’s comments on Monday regarding a possible future bid for the presidency, and his arming up against the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, are reopening old wounds from the Vietnam War and the 2004 presidential race.

``He’s a liar,'' said J. Craig Herman of Pahoa, Hawaii, a former U.S. naval officer and registered Republican. ``Real heroes and real Navy officers do not not waltz around with a ... camera taking pictures of themselves on duty.''

While some veterans question Kerry’s military decorations and fault his subsequent actions as a anti-Vietnam War protester, other others say they just never warmed to the Massachusetts Democrat’s personal style.

``There’s something weasely about him,'' said Elliot Olson, a self-described independent voter from Minneapolis. ``You can compare him to Bill Clinton, but with Clinton you know what you’re getting.''

The 63-year-old Kerry said Monday that he might run for president again, perhaps in 2012. He also said he has compiled a dossier on his critics at Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group that dogged Kerry in the 2004 race.

The comments, reprinted on political blogs including drudgereport.com, opinionjournal.com and lucianne.com, prompted hundreds of e-mails critical of the Vietnam veteran turned war protestor turned politician.

(Excerpt) Read more at ledger.southofboston.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fraud; hanoijohn; jeanfrancois; kerry; senatorgigolo
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Mr. Benner with further comments on the hoopla over Kerry's most recent fabulism...
1 posted on 11/06/2007 6:38:17 PM PST by Phil Harmonic
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To: Phil Harmonic

JEFF BEATTY FOR SENATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!


2 posted on 11/06/2007 6:41:58 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)
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To: Phil Harmonic
The 63-year-old Kerry said Monday that he might run for president again, perhaps in 2012.

So what does he know and when did he know it? This should be breaking news if he thinks the GOP will win in 08? Why would he run against an incumbent should a rat win?

3 posted on 11/06/2007 6:42:30 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (... give me a moment, I'm thinking (just to flaunt it in front of the lurking liberals))
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To: Phil Harmonic

Kerry is a blithering idiot. If the favorable media blitz couldn’t get him elected, nothing ever will.

Kerry, you’re married (for now) to a rich chick who loves to not have you around. You’ve also got a decent amount of coin of your own. If you’re going to work every day, you’re doing it for the fun of it. Go get a hobby, moron. Since you’re too stupid to know what to do, which is obvious, let me help you: Retire, go spend some of that marital cash, and take a round-the-world vacation ending at the French Riviera.

Don’t go away mad, just go away. Pulling stupid stunts and proving that you’re an unconscionable attention-whore is not helping you a bit.


4 posted on 11/06/2007 6:46:18 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Oh, the huge manatee!!!)
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To: Phil Harmonic
He also said he has compiled a dossier on his critics at Swift Boat Veterans for Truth....

How nice. I'll bet the SBV4T have compiled more materials as well.

May the best man win.

5 posted on 11/06/2007 6:48:35 PM PST by capydick (Suit Up. Enter the Arena. Play the Game. Play Your Sport)
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To: Phil Harmonic

So a sitting Senator and Presidential candidate is waving a fistful of dossiers that he has created on a couple of hundred private citizens while he is serving in office.

He won’t do anything now, but if they come out against him during a campaign, then the dossiers will be used to retaliate against them.

He has made this public and the FBI isn’t investigating this little Stalinist yet? The Senate needs to start hearings on this.


6 posted on 11/06/2007 7:05:35 PM PST by ansel12 (Proud father of a 10th Mountain veteran. Proud son of a WWII vet. Proud brother of vets, Airborne)
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To: capydick

The best man never wins here.
Ted screaming “Waterboarding” regarding Michael Mukasey today.
After drowning and killing Mary Jo Kopechne in 1968.
No one seems to see the irony!

You know why RED SOX NATION is so Huge?
All of the smart people moved away!


7 posted on 11/06/2007 7:06:42 PM PST by acapesket (never had a vote count in all my years here)
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To: Phil Harmonic
"63-year-old Kerry"

A life of fear and insecurity turned desperate.


8 posted on 11/06/2007 7:11:13 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Phil Harmonic

I still want to know when the creep will be charged with treason.


9 posted on 11/06/2007 7:12:02 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Phil Harmonic

So Kerry’s “response” is to compile dossiers on his opponents? How about just releasing his service records. It would shut every Swift Boat Vet up if it is truthful. This is like bragging about having a degree from Harvard then refusing to produce a diploma and attacking people who just want to see it.


10 posted on 11/06/2007 7:12:52 PM PST by boop (Who doesn't love poison pot pies?)
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To: Phil Harmonic
Kerry aide David Wade said Tuesday in a prepared statement: ``What was true in 1969 and true in 2004 is still true today: Sen. Kerry served his country with honorAnd then betrayed it

There, fixed it

11 posted on 11/06/2007 7:14:31 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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He won’t do anything now, but if they come out against him during a campaign, then the dossiers will be used to retaliate against them.

Ya know, I think its just possible that he's trying to intimidate the Swiftees into not even considering coming out against him in his senate bid or, perhaps, suggesting to Jeff Beatty that such an alliance would be foolhardy.

Here's a suggestion Mr. Beatty. Get EVERY man-jack you can from the SVPT to stand on the stump with you ... then watch ol' Lurch get the political dry-heaves.

12 posted on 11/06/2007 7:16:21 PM PST by Phil Harmonic
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To: K4Harty

He is just talking out of his A.., er um, “hat” again ;0)


13 posted on 11/06/2007 7:16:32 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Kerry still hasen’t released his military records like he promised. What is John Kerry hiding?


14 posted on 11/06/2007 7:16:34 PM PST by Plains Drifter (If guns kill people, wouldn't there be a lot of dead people at gun shows?)
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To: Plains Drifter
Kerry still hasen’t released his military records like he promised. What is John Kerry hiding?

His original discharge (DD-214). Not to be confused with the sanitized version Kerry so proudly displays -- which was issued during the Carter administration. Jimma's blanket amnesty upgraded a lot of less than honorable discharges, and I'll bet Kerry's was one of those.

15 posted on 11/06/2007 7:25:43 PM PST by Always A Marine
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To: Plains Drifter

I would guess he is hiding a less than honorable discharge and proof that he submitted himself for all his medals


16 posted on 11/06/2007 7:26:47 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

” Since you’re too stupid to know what to do, which is obvious, let me help you: Retire, go spend some of that marital cash, and take a round-the-world vacation ending at the French Riviera. “

No, let him run for the Senate again. I think we have a chance to beat him if the Dems don’t put up somebody else. I’d love to run up the score NE Patriots-style on the SOB.


17 posted on 11/06/2007 7:31:06 PM PST by Humble Servant (Keep it simple - do what's right.)
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To: Always A Marine

The form I’m talking about is 180 form to release his service records, we all got our dd214’s handed to us on the way out.


18 posted on 11/06/2007 7:32:26 PM PST by Plains Drifter (If guns kill people, wouldn't there be a lot of dead people at gun shows?)
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To: Always A Marine

Hmmm... I rad the whole article and it has some records I’ve never seen. Supposedly they were released in 2004, but according to the article there are records released in 2005 AFTER the election that are only available to “the media”. WTF? Isn’t there even ONE member of the MSM who has taken interest in this?


19 posted on 11/06/2007 7:33:33 PM PST by boop (Who doesn't love poison pot pies?)
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To: Phil Harmonic

"Hanoi" John

20 posted on 11/06/2007 7:34:35 PM PST by MarineBrat (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccination that the Church offers.)
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