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John Kerry Accepts $1M Swift Boat Bet
ABC ^ | Nov. 16, 2007

Posted on 11/16/2007 6:33:08 PM PST by AmericanMade1776

Sen. John Kerry, whose 2004 presidential campaign was torpedoed by critics of his Vietnam War record, said Friday he has personally accepted a Texas oilman's offer to pay $1 million to anyone who can disprove even a single charge of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

In a letter to T. Boone Pickens, the Massachusetts Democrat wrote: "While I am prepared to show they lied on allegation after allegation, you have generously offered to pay one million dollars for just one thing that can be proven false. I am prepared to prove the lie beyond any reasonable doubt."

Kerry, a Navy veteran and former prosecutor, said he was willing to present his case directly to Pickens, who provided $3 million to bankroll the group during Kerry's race against President Bush. Kerry said he would donate any proceeds to the Paralyzed Veterans of America.

The senator said Pickens issued the challenge Nov. 6 in Washington, while serving as chairman of a 40th anniversary gala for American Spectator magazine.

In the letter, Kerry offered to travel to Dallas to meet with Pickens in a public forum or to invite him to come to Massachusetts. He suggested the two could visit the Paralyzed Veterans of America in Norwood to see firsthand how Pickens' money could be used to help veterans. A copy of the letter was provided to The Associated Press.

Pickens spokesman Jay Rosser asked to review the letter before commenting

(Excerpt) Read more at abclocal.go.com ...


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KEYWORDS: kerry; pickens; swiftboatvets; threadnumber6
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John Kerry still Long in the Face.

1 posted on 11/16/2007 6:33:12 PM PST by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776

I have a feeling we’re going to get another taste of John F’n Kerry’s subjective reality.


2 posted on 11/16/2007 6:35:23 PM PST by cripplecreek (Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
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To: AmericanMade1776
get over it, john.


3 posted on 11/16/2007 6:36:19 PM PST by bill1952 ("all that we do is done with an eye towards something else." - Aristotle)
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To: bill1952

I don’t think you could of illustrated the outcome of this John Kerry trying to take on the Swiftboats any better.


4 posted on 11/16/2007 6:38:25 PM PST by AmericanMade1776
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To: cripplecreek
"I have a feeling we’re going to get another taste of John F’n Kerry’s subjective reality."

Is Kerry going to bring his redacted and self-written copies of his service records to "prove" how great he is?

5 posted on 11/16/2007 6:38:43 PM PST by boop (Who doesn't love poison pot pies?)
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To: AmericanMade1776

What does he care, it’s Ter-ay-za’s money.


6 posted on 11/16/2007 6:39:02 PM PST by surrey
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To: AmericanMade1776
Oh, please. Ome million? Here's how THAT would go....

"Hoooney? I picked up your bottle of vodka, and as a special treat, here's a bottle of scotch, and tequila, and rum, and can I borrow a mil?"


Still the best!
7 posted on 11/16/2007 6:39:12 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Satisfaction was my sin)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Pickens spokesman Jay Rosser asked to review the letter before commenting

Apparently ABC didn't want to wait around?

8 posted on 11/16/2007 6:39:12 PM PST by xjcsa (Defenseless enemies are fun.)
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To: AmericanMade1776
It appears that Kerry, as well as the writer of this story, do not know that the meaning of the word "disprove" is.

The writer also claims first that Kerry granted access to his full record, then states that it was the same docs he released prior to the election.

9 posted on 11/16/2007 6:39:32 PM PST by jdub
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do not know that...

Oops, that shoud have read "do not know WHAT"...

10 posted on 11/16/2007 6:43:02 PM PST by jdub
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Boone didn’t get rich giving away money to fools.


11 posted on 11/16/2007 6:43:09 PM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Pay him $1 million to sign the SF-181 and submit it.


12 posted on 11/16/2007 6:45:52 PM PST by Always Right
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To: AmericanMade1776

Good luck Rabbit Tooth.


13 posted on 11/16/2007 6:46:08 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: AmericanMade1776

you regularly see in american newspapers about a foreign country:

“they don’t have a free press”.

yet, how many tv-morons in america know that john kerry negotiated

with the north viets in paris while he was still in the u.s. navy reserves?


14 posted on 11/16/2007 6:47:59 PM PST by ken21 ( people die + you never hear from them again.)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Kerry will have to authorize the release of his service records in order to win the 1 million bucks. Boonie is a smart guy!

Fat chance that will happen though, Kerry is blowing smoke.

Yep , he long in da face, but short on the grey matter.

And this was almost the prex of the USA? Shiver.

15 posted on 11/16/2007 6:48:10 PM PST by Candor7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(1258))
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To: AmericanMade1776
Geeeze. I thought this Clymer had gone away.

Apparently not.

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16 posted on 11/16/2007 6:49:45 PM PST by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Hey, hey
Ho, Ho
Kerry: sign the one-eight-oh
18 posted on 11/16/2007 6:56:51 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Oh, oh, I can’t wait, the suspense is killing me - does this mean that he’s prepared to show off “the hat”?


19 posted on 11/16/2007 7:00:12 PM PST by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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To: ken21
you regularly see in american newspapers about a foreign country...

Please do Americans a favor, and capitalize the word "American."

20 posted on 11/16/2007 7:00:51 PM PST by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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