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NYT excerpt, Kerry: "I just deny it categorically. It's rumor. It's untrue, period."
NY Times ^ | Feb. 13, 2004 | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Posted on 02/13/2004 8:36:12 PM PST by 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."


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bimboeruption; charlatan; denial; drudge; hypocrisy; imus; infidelity; kerry; longface
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1 posted on 02/13/2004 8:36:14 PM PST by new cruelty
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To: new cruelty
Mr. Kerry said, "It seems to be the war that won't ever go away,"

Especially, when you bring it up every five minutes, in order to use it as campaign fodder.

2 posted on 02/13/2004 8:37:53 PM PST by Paul Atreides (Is it really so difficult to post the entire article?)
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To: Paul Atreides
What do you mean?

;)
3 posted on 02/13/2004 8:38:34 PM PST by new cruelty
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To: Paul Atreides
Regarding posting the entire article,...no, it's not so difficult... it's just not allowed.
4 posted on 02/13/2004 8:39:21 PM PST by new cruelty
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To: new cruelty
I think, mind you, I'm not sure, that Kerry was supposedly in Vietnam. Now, I've not heard him mention this, so don't take my word for it.
5 posted on 02/13/2004 8:39:42 PM PST by Paul Atreides (Is it really so difficult to post the entire article?)
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To: new cruelty
as the senator's own history as a decorated Vietnam veteran

Really?  Kerry was in Vietnam?

6 posted on 02/13/2004 8:40:31 PM PST by RWR8189 (Its Morning in America Again!)
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To: new cruelty
I know. My tagline was in response to people who will post one sentence of an allowable source, then excerpt the rest.
7 posted on 02/13/2004 8:40:40 PM PST by Paul Atreides (Is it really so difficult to post the entire article?)
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To: Paul Atreides
Really? Odd, I didn't see any mention of it in Bush's dental records.
9 posted on 02/13/2004 8:40:52 PM PST by new cruelty
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To: new cruelty
NY Times is not on the excerpt list.
10 posted on 02/13/2004 8:41:07 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: MountainPatriot
You might want to ask the moderator to delete your post. The woman in the photo is not the "intern" in question -- the "intern" is actually the AP reporter who wrote the article about the woman in that picture (the article was about 20-somethings without medical insurance, I think).
11 posted on 02/13/2004 8:43:40 PM PST by Alberta's Child (Alberta -- the TRUE North strong and free.)
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To: new cruelty
Kerry: "I just deny it categorically. It's rumor. It's untrue, period."

"I did not have sex with that woman. Never, ever."

(A month from now when Clark leaks a little more information to the press):
"Indeed I did have an inappropriate relationship with that woman, and let me tell you how Bush is to blame...."

12 posted on 02/13/2004 8:43:41 PM PST by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: Paul Atreides
Well he was a Viet Nam veteran who served in Viet Nam during the Viet Nam war!

sorry...

13 posted on 02/13/2004 8:44:41 PM PST by SirChas
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To: new cruelty
I hope the affair story dies....and his VVAW days pick up a ton of steam.
14 posted on 02/13/2004 8:44:59 PM PST by Dan from Michigan ("Redneck rock and roll son of Detroit")
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To: SirChas
Just don't bring up what he did after Vietnam.
15 posted on 02/13/2004 8:46:38 PM PST by Paul Atreides (Is it really so difficult to post the entire article?)
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To: Paul Atreides
Mr. Kerry said, "It seems to be the war that won't ever go away,"

Hell, it was over 32 years ago, Kerry you old dinosaur. Today is 2004!
(Thank God Bush is in the here and now.)

16 posted on 02/13/2004 8:48:34 PM PST by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: concerned about politics
""I did not have sex with that woman. Never, ever."

"I just asked her if I could spread my ketchup on her bun."

17 posted on 02/13/2004 8:48:43 PM PST by mass55th
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To: Paul Atreides
Let's demand his medical and dental records so we can find out.
18 posted on 02/13/2004 8:49:51 PM PST by jwalburg (We CAN Question their Patriotism!)
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To: Diddle E. Squat; Paul Atreides
Thanks for the heads up!
19 posted on 02/13/2004 8:49:54 PM PST by new cruelty
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To: new cruelty
The Don't Hit Me, I'm A Veteran tour marches on...
20 posted on 02/13/2004 8:50:40 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard ("That's all I'm going to say for now. Quack, quack.")
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