pretty thin gruel
Actually, we found eleven measures authored by Kerry have been signed into law, including a save-the-dolphins law, a law naming a federal building, a law giving a posthumous award to Jackie Robinson last year, and laws declaring "world population awareness weeks" in 1989 and 1991.<<<
WOW! What a great man! Kerry "saved the dolphins", named a building and gave an award to a dead sports figure!
And his "world population awareness weeks" are observed by thousands across the world.
I'd feel so much better with his intelligence at the helm of the whitehouse, angry dolphins will not attack us, buildings can feel like respected members of the community, and the dead will rise again! WHOO! HOO!
Sarcastic remarks not nearly good enough . . .
Who cares about his record or lack of one?
He has a PLAN.
Kerry has a *plan*...
http://www.asjewelers.com/FRstuff/7/I_have_a_plan.wmv
John Kerry: Stealth soldier in Vietnam, stealth prosecutor in Massachusetts, stealth senator from Massachusetts. Do we want him to be the stealth president fighting the war on terrorism?
Interestingly this am, CBS early morning news had a good fifteen minutes straight of pump up Kerry/bash Bush stories, totally one-sided. I was trying to get the weather and didn't even know the Red Sox had won or even played...since CBS left out sports and weather in order to let us know how Kerrys Mo was churning along. Not a peep about the polls showing their boy tanking. Hilarious.
None of these corrections, factchecks or adjustments cast doubt on the root of the matter that Bush was pointing at, which is that as a Senator, John Kerry was a lackluster lawmaker, ineffective, and uninvolved in the important operations of the Senate and our government.
I think that the enumeration and listing of each of Kerry's acts before Congress serves to shed light on now hollow his new ambitions are.
If Sen. Kerry truly wanted to be a force for ANYTHING in the world, he has had 20 years to start. His horse is stalled at the gate, and, at least for him, it seems too late to start now.
I've said it a thousand times. Bush has weaknesses on some issues, but John Kerry is twice as weak on each one of those. He simply was not the wise candidate for the Democratic nomination. Retired General Wesley Clark could have hammered Bush effectively on the progress of the war in Iraq from a position of having been consistently against the war. Howard Dean could have done this, too.
It shows the true reason why Senator Kerry wanted to talk about those four months in Vietnam. It's because everything after that has been completely lackluster, overly nuanced, and without conviction. If he ever wanted to change the world, he's given us no indication of this in the House, the Senate, or his "campaign".
The office of President of the United States should be less about party politics and more about the men in question. Kerry simply has not proven that he is the man for the job.
Now we know. John Kerry has been paid an average of $140,000 for twenty years to do this heavy lifting. That is roughly $2,800,000, or $255,556 per bill or resolution authored and actually passed into law or effect. Wow. I'm impressed. (NOT.)
Congressman Billybob
He's been better to marine life and hamsters than humans.
Stopping the funding for the Nicaraguan Contras after bring back a peace agreement with Daniel Ortega of the Sandanistas (which was worthless). Ortega turned around and solicited $200 million from the Soviets a few days later. Read: Kerry's Disloyal Nicaraguan Journey and Don't forget 'The John Kerry Committee'Investigating (or creating) the Iran/Contra and BCCI scandals.
Blocking the vote on the Vietnam Human Rights Act in the Senate in 2001, which tied U.S. aid to Vietnam's human rights performance, and had passed by a 410-1 margin in the House of Representatives. Kerry, chairman of the Senate's East Asian and Pacific Affairs subcommittee, said in a statement at the time that he and fellow Vietnam War veteran Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) "are concerned that denying aid to Vietnam would actually slow human rights improvements." Many Vietnamese living abroad, along with human rights campaigners, say conditions in Vietnam have deteriorated in the three years since Kerry blocked the legislation.
Persuading the MIA/POW Senate committee to vote unanimously that no POWs existed in Vietnam in order to open up trade with Vietnam (his cousin C. Stewart Forbes, CEO of Colliers Intl, received a contract for a huge commercial deal worth at least $905 million to develop a deep-sea commercial port at Vung Tau). For more on the POW/MIA issue, here is a great article: When John Kerry's Courage Went M.I.A. - Senator covered up evidence of P.O.W.'s left behind
For more, check out the John F. Kerry Timeline. Email it to your friends, post on your blogs.
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