NYT excerpt, Kerry: "I just deny it categorically. It's rumor. It's untrue, period."

NY Times ^ | Feb. 13, 2004 | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

[new cruelty]

From the NYTimes article "Clark Comes Aboard Kerry Campaign" by Sheryl Gay Stolberg:

Earlier in the day, Mr. Kerry proclaimed himself a "fighter" in an interview with Don Imus, the radio talk show host.

Asked why Mr. Bush's National Guard service during the Vietnam era as well as the senator's own history as a decorated Vietnam veteran who became a war protester were an issue, Mr. Kerry said, "It seems to be the war that won't ever go away," and called it "the pivotal event of our generation."

He said of his decision to oppose the Vietnam War, "Look, I didn't love coming back from the war I fought in and having to tell people, `This is wrong, this is screwed up,' but it was and we lost a lot of lives."

Mr. Kerry also denied to Mr. Imus — and again later to reporters in Wisconsin — a charge posted Thursday on the Web site of the Internet gossip columnist Matt Drudge that the senator had had an extramarital affair.

"Is there anything, anything, that's going to come up?" Mr. Imus said, before making an oblique reference to the Drudge report.

Mr. Kerry replied: "There's nothing to report. So there's nothing to talk about. I'm not worried about it."

Later in the day after a town-hall-style question-and-answer appearance with Gov. Jim Doyle, Mr. Kerry told reporters: "I just deny it categorically. It's rumor. It's untrue, period."

[ourhouse]

I saw that picture when I searched under Alex's name but that picture was not her - it was an illustration within an article written by Alex.

[doug from upland]

I wonder if there is a recording telling her how to deny it and calling Cuomo part of the Mafia.

[Dan from Michigan]

One will always take time away from the other.

After Lewinsky, what happened to the John Huang stories?

[Salvation]

Bill O'Reilly just hinted that some of this rumor was being fueled by fellow Democrats. Has anyone else heard this?

[kcvl]

That is NOT her!!!

[kcvl]

That is NOT the girl!!! Read the name below her picture.

[EGPWS]

Well he was a Viet Nam veteran who served in Viet Nam during the Viet Nam war!

Really? D@mn I wish I could have heard it from the obviously humble Kerry himself.

[goldstategop]

Suuuuure its rumor, Senator. Candidate Clinton said the same thing when confronted with the "bimbo eruption" episodes in 1992. Its uncanny how you trot out the Clinton Defense.

[Spotsy]

{Mr. Kerry said, "It seems to be the war that won't ever go away," and called it "the pivotal event of our generation."}

Funny, the Sept 11 terrorist attacks are the most pivotal event in recent memory (not to mention still pretty relevant)YET KERRY APPEARS TO HAVE GOTTEN OVER THEM!

Bush is forward thinking; the Democrats are self-absorbed.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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.."All you gotta do is deny it" =

...BILL CLINTON to his mistress of 12 years JENNIFER FLOWERS that she taped unbeknownst to him.

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[Soundman4x4]

How old is she?

I read 20 25, 27 SO FAR

If it's 20 he's a dirty old man.
If it's 25 + he's...a man

Still I question her behavior more than his(fooling around with a dimocrat gigolo), no wonder she won't admit it.

[lilylangtree]

Kerry parrots clintoon. 2 peas in the same pod. Where there's smoke there's fire. Need to find that intern.

[Dolphy]

"It seems to be the war that won't ever go away," and called it "the pivotal event of our generation."

How will he ever defend his vote to authorize military action in Iraq and his vote against funding the mission if Viet Nam was the pivotal event of his generation? Either you are in or you are out, the in between is for political cowards.

[NYCVirago]

Asked why Mr. Bush's National Guard service during the Vietnam era as well as the senator's own history as a decorated Vietnam veteran who became a war protester were an issue, Mr. Kerry said, "It seems to be the war that won't ever go away," and called it "the pivotal event of our generation."

I think World War II was the "pivotal event" of Bob Dole and George Bush's generation, but they didn't make their wartime heroics the centerpiece of their campaign. If they had, they would have been accused of living in the past. Yet since the media is run by left-wing baby boomers, they love all this self-righteous navel-gazing.

[NYCVirago]

Let's demand his medical and dental records so we can find out.

And did he have hemorrhoids? The people have a right to know!

[concerned about politics]

Bill O'Reilly just hinted that some of this rumor was being fueled by fellow Democrats. Has anyone else heard this?

Wesley Clark told the press about the intern.

[NYCVirago]

If it's 25 + he's...a man

Well, he is 60 years old, and has a daughter older than this paramour. IMHO, that's a dirty old man.

[concerned about politics]

Yet they adore Clinton. He's even running the campaigns.
Ironic, isn't it? A hero/commie sympathizer and a coward/commie sympathizer. What a team.

[kcvl]

Pic of 'JFK' sex storm girl

Scandal ... Alex Poller


By BRIAN FLYNN
in New York

THIS is the girl at the centre of a sex scandal that threatens Democratic front-runner John Kerry’s run for the White House.

Presidential hopeful Kerry, dubbed the new JFK, has denied claims he had a two-year fling with brunette Alex Polier. Alex, 27, was a cross-country runner and in the world affairs club at her Philadelphia school.

One source said: “She was attractive, intelligent and one of the leaders in her year.”

She went on to graduate from Columbia University, New York, and met Kerry, 60, as she began a career as a freelance journalist.



Denial ... John Kerry


But a probe was under way yesterday into allegations that twice-wed Kerry seduced her after inviting her to join his campaign team in spring 2001.

There is no evidence to support the claims. Dad-of-two Kerry was set to seal the nomination to take on George Bush in the November election when the allegations surfaced.

Alex, who is in Africa with her fiancé Yaron Schwartzman, refused to comment.


http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004071781,00.html

[concerned about politics]

And did he have hemorrhoids? The people have a right to know!

NY Times Investigation: Bush had Hemorrhoids ("all the news that's fit to print") FR thread.

Then there is his medical history, set out in more detail than many Americans might want to know. He had his tonsils removed as a young boy, had appendicitis when he was 10 and at 14 had an operation to remove a cyst from his chest, leaving a scar. At the time he applied for entrance into the guard, he had a hemorrhoid, the location of which was charted with military precision.