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Whopper of the Week: John Kerry
DID JOHN KERRY PRETEND TO BE IRISH
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| March 7, 2003
| Timothy Noah
Posted on 03/11/2004 5:13:11 PM PST by AmericanMade1776
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Just seemed appropriate to revisit this misrepresentation by John Kerry So close to Saint Patrick's Day.
To: AmericanMade1776
In Boston,the joke is John Kerry is Irish only every sixth year.
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posted on
03/11/2004 5:17:07 PM PST
by
Redcoat LI
( "help to drive the left one into the insanity.")
To: AmericanMade1776
Having grown up in Massachusetts I think I can personally say:
What a jackoff-hack-Taxachewzits-politician he is.
.........and theres even MORE there just like HIM.
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posted on
03/11/2004 5:19:00 PM PST
by
DoctorMichael
(What the %$#&!)
To: AmericanMade1776
featuring the logo, 'Up Kerry' You know, that's got a certain appeal to it...
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posted on
03/11/2004 5:19:07 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: AmericanMade1776
And this from SLATE!!!
Color ME surprised...
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posted on
03/11/2004 5:20:38 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: All
This is old news in the Baystate.
Kerry the Chameleon - think Geico lizard but much homelier.
To: AmericanMade1776
Some people think there was a Saddam-al Qaeda connection. I am one of them.
Some people think there is a Kerry-Ireland connection. I am NOT one of them.
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posted on
03/11/2004 5:25:27 PM PST
by
OESY
To: Izzy Dunne
Please note date on article from Slate, it is one year old.
To: Izzy Dunne
I don't know why any of you dratted right-wingers would take this line of attack against Kerry! He never pretended to be Irish. The Shamrocks, the Green Derby, the proctological motto: all an attempt at good clean fun and showing this outstanding Catholic boyo's solidarity with those whose roots run deep under the Old Sod.
Just because he wore a Leprechaun Suit and was heard to hum Danny Boy constantly was certainly no reason for any Massachusetts Irishman to leap to foolish conclusions.
And speaking of "The Old Sod," don't let me hear any of you right-wing conspirator-bastards refer to Barney Frank by that scurrilous nickname. Barney never claimed to be Irish either! And you can thank St. Patrick for that!
Kerry is so proud of his Austro-Hungarian Jewish Roots that he actually trumpets this part of his mixed heritage to the skies. Sorta like Madeleine Albright.
To: AmericanMade1776
As for the Irish-themed Kerry campaign paraphernalia, Benander said it was meant to attract Irish-American voters, not to con people into thinking Kerry was Irish C'mon. That's crap. The only Irish campaign paraphernalia I've EVER seen was by candidates who are of Irish Catholic ancestry(I've never seen the Orange play it up).
If my name was Kohn, I wouldn't be using Irish-centered campaign lit. Kerry had the political advantage of having an Irish last name and certainly did not want to give that up.
That said, I'm glad he is NOT Irish since one of my ancestors is a "Carey".
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posted on
03/11/2004 5:39:36 PM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
(""....but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America"")
To: AmericanMade1776
This man has completely rendered my ability to be shocked and surprised null and void. I have never in my not so puritanical life been more repulsed by a person (who isn't incarcerated for some sick crime) than this revolving dork.In my life I have encountered everything from the lowest bed wetting drunk to the most larcenous crackhead, and even they have a point that they will not cross. I loathe him. As bad as Clinton was, I think he would have made a helluva used car salesman and a hoot to have a beer with.( No offense to legitimate used car salesmen!). But Kerry is a soulless,unrepentant parasite of the lowest order. God have mercy on us if he is elected.
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posted on
03/11/2004 5:43:33 PM PST
by
zygoat
To: AmericanMade1776
"As some of you may know, I am part-English and part-Irish. And when my Kerry ancestors first came over to Massachusetts from the old country to find work in the New World, it was my English ancestors who refused to hire them." His Kerry ancestors came over on the Koenigin Luise, out of Genoa, in 1906.
They travelled first class.
When they first came over they settled in Chicago, and they had wealthy friends.
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posted on
03/11/2004 5:44:52 PM PST
by
syriacus
(1/16/04 Kerry smeared Pickering by calling him a tireless advocate for a cross burner)
To: Dan from Michigan
" C'mon. That's crap "
Kerry wants us to believe that for 60 years,not once, not one time, did his family ever discuss their heritage-not once. Kerry wants us to believe that he was as shocked as everyone else, to discover that at age 60, he wasn't Irish, but, an Austrian Jew.
If Kerry had been adopted, this might be plausible. Kerry's grandparents must have spoken with some kind of accent and apparently, Kerry cannot tell the difference between an Irish brogue and an Eastern European accent, with Yiddish overtones. John Kerry is either a blithering idiot or a con man of the highest order.
To: zygoat
Kerry is a soulless, unrepentant parasite. . . . Parisite, huh? I knew he looked French!
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posted on
03/11/2004 5:58:22 PM PST
by
Charles Henrickson
(Kerry is like that or so a crack sausage.)
To: AmericanMade1776
Kerry to first rich wife Julia and second rich wife Teresa:
"Give me back me gold! I want me gold!"
By George, he is Irish!
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posted on
03/11/2004 6:29:03 PM PST
by
Mentos
To: zygoat
Wow!!!! What you said! This is the best comment I've seen yet about this piece of human scum. I am fervently praying that he will get the Democratic nomination, and immediately begin to implode, to go down in the biggest Republican landslide ever seen.
To: AmericanMade1776
This week he's pretending to be black.
So far he's been Irish, Jewish, Austrian, and now African.
His constituents love him just the way he is.....schizophrenic!
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posted on
03/11/2004 6:54:27 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(Always understand, even if you remain among the few)
To: AmericanMade1776
Pretending to be Irish was the only way to get tight with the Bulger and Kennedy crime families in Boston.
Besides, it was probably an important part of his "I am the reincarnation of JFK (the real one) delusion."
To: Dan from Michigan
One of your distant relatives. Aren't you happy?
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posted on
03/11/2004 6:57:49 PM PST
by
cyborg
(In die begin het God die hemel en die aarde geskape.)
To: Kenny Bunk
I see Kerry as more ire-ish than Irish.
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posted on
03/11/2004 6:59:02 PM PST
by
F.J. Mitchell
(Buffoons with no class, never apologize for being an ass..)
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