Posted on 02/08/2004 12:31:03 PM PST by kennedy
The Photo Dems Fear Most: Kerry with 'Hanoi Jane' Democratic Party officials are hoping that no photographs exist of a well-covered Vietnam War protest where soldier-hating actress Jane Fonda and Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry, then and up-and-coming member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, railed against U.S. war policy from the back of the same pick-up truck. "Scores of newspaper articles about the march" exist, according to Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley. Dubbed "Operation RAW" [Rapid American Withdrawal], the Sept. 1970 march featured Fonda, Kerry and a motley band of anti-war vets in an eighty-six mile trek from Morristown, New Jersey and Valley Forge, Pennsylvania - two Revolutionary War sites. According to "Tour of Duty," Brinkley's book on Kerry's war years, when the protesters reached their destination they were treated to Fonda standing on the bed of a pick-up truck, where she "denounced the Nixon administration as a beehive for cold blooded killers." "Marijuana was in the air," said Brinkley. "Skinny dippers frolicked in the Delaware River. . . [The group's] long hair, ripped jeans, army surplus store canteens, and toy guns gave the VVAW the look of a ragtag band of Haight-Ashbury refugees. . . "Along the marching route, veterans would shout out phrases like 'Kill him!' and 'Cut his belly open' for dramatic effect," said Brinkley. Others who spoke that day proclaimed the U.S. guilty of "genocide" in Southeast Asia. Kerry followed Fonda's Nixon denunciation with a rousing anti-war address that made him "the new leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War," Brinkley said. "From Valley Forge onward, [Kerry] was a committed anitwar activist. . ." From there, Kerry went on to Detroit to organize a particularly offensive bit of guerrilla theater dubbed "The Winter Soldier Investigation," where Fonda presided as U.S. war atrocities were chronicled by "soldiers" who some later suspected were impostors. After Winter Soldier, writes Brinkley, "Fonda personally adopted [Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War] as her leading cause."Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Sunday, Feb. 8, 2004 2:46 PM EST
We need photos with better resolution than this 16 mm stuff.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1744/a10.html URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1744/a10.html Newshawk: chip Pubdate: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 Source: Charlotte Observer (NC) Copyright: 2003 The Charlotte Observer Contact: opinion@charlotteobserver.com Website: http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/78
CANDIDATES UNABASHED BY PAST POT USE
Presidential Watch
( AP ) - The question during the debate, held in front of an audience of twenty-somethings in Boston, was inevitable. The answers showed how much the times have changed.
"Which of you are ready to admit to having used marijuana in the past?" Anderson Cooper, the moderator of Tuesday's "Rock the Vote" debate on CNN, asked eight of the nine Democratic presidential candidates. ( Rep. Dick Gephardt was not there. )
"Yes," said Sen. John Kerry, leading off.
"Yes," said Sen. John Edwards.
"Yes," said former Gov. Howard Dean.
None of these three baby boomer candidates said anything beyond their short, declarative affirmations. The implication of their answers seemed to be, "Yeah, so what?"
In fact, the defensive answers tended to come from those replying in the negative.
"No," said Rep. Dennis Kucinich. "But I think it ought to be decriminalized." >{? "I grew up in the church," said the Rev. Al Sharpton. "We didn't believe in that."
"Well, you know, I have a reputation for giving unpopular answers at Democratic debates," said Sen. Joe Lieberman. "I never used marijuana. Sorry!"
The next day's news coverage of the debate focused on the attacks on Dean for his references to appealing to people who fly the Confederate flag. The admissions of marijuana smoking by three of the Democratic candidates for president were largely ignored. -- NEW YORK TIMES
Gephardt asks staff to take a pay cut
Democratic presidential hopeful Dick Gephardt, facing a huge cash disadvantage against Howard Dean, has asked his senior staff to take a pay cut."We want to make sure we spend the bulk of our resources in the early states on the ground and on the air," said campaign manager Steve Murphy. - -- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kerry backs UMass effort to grow pot
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry supports the University of Massachusetts' effort to grow marijuana for medical research. The University of Mississippi is the only legal grower of marijuana for research. Kerry and fellow Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy say that amounts to an "unjustifiable monopoly."
"The current lack of such competition may well result in the production of lower-quality research-grade marijuana, which in turn jeopardizes important research into the therapeutic effects of marijuana for patients undergoing chemotherapy or suffering from AIDS, glaucoma or other diseases," Kerry and Kennedy wrote in a letter to the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration dated Oct. 20. . -- ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.rollingstone.com/features/nationalaffairs/featuregen.asp?pid=2454
Thank you.Playing catchup from yesterday. Seems FR was a busy place yesterday and recently.
The 'RAT primaries are getting folks stirred up, it seems. That's good, I think.
Hey, thanks !"Which of you are ready to admit to having used marijuana in the past?" Anderson Cooper, the moderator of Tuesday's "Rock the Vote" debate on CNN, asked eight of the nine Democratic presidential candidates. ( Rep. Dick Gephardt was not there. )
"Yes," said Sen. John Kerry, leading off.
Kerry:
Like, wow! Yeah, man !
I still do ! ...
Someone should scan & splice Kerry's head in there.
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