Posted on 12/03/2002 12:21:05 PM PST by Stand Watch Listen
John Kerry, (D. MA, a/k/a Mr. Heinz because he married the heiress of that great condiment wealth) has announced that he is planning to run for president in 2004 by forming an exploratory committee. Mr. Kerry, who took less than 90 seconds to mention his war service during Vietnam (yet not specifically, but rather in an off-handed way as he said “sometimes you look behind you and there´s no one there” – pulling the heart strings) while not exactly saying what form that service took (I had heard he was a SEAL—those particular sailors who are trained to do ‘whatever´ is necessary to defeat the enemy and that´s good in war but bad in politics) and then again in the very next minute referring to his military service in an equally ambiguous way, shows the results of being coached, e.g., appear to be answering a question but just not the one asked.
Something I have noticed in politicians, it´s not that hard to tell when they are speaking sincerely. We have had the benefit of watching the Clintons and since they usually speak with forked tongues, when anyone else starts sounding or acting like them, well, you get my drift. Just like when McCain said he wasn´t going to use his time as a prisoner of war and then went out and did that very same thing; so, here, Kerry refers to his military service but then tells us no more. What he does tell us in passing is that he is still plagued by bad dreams from that time in his life. So, Mr. Kerry, what are those nightmares you referred to from Nam? Do you have a handle on them? But the most important question I would like an answer to: what made you fight for the right side and then retire and fight for the left? I´m not holding my breath on this one.
When Mr. Kerry discussed tax cuts, he dragged out that old, tired, sorry lament of no tax cuts for the rich, for they have done well and don´t deserve them. Oh, really? Gee, doesn´t that bring Marx to one´s mind. Since when is it up to anyone but the person who earned to decide how much is too much? Is his wife´s fortune too much? Seems like the double standard is at work here. While Mr. Kerry says he wants to control how much money we each have, he will use public money for his campaign instead of his own. How very communistic of him. From the man who pays $150 for his haircuts (although he always looks like he needs one last week to me), pretty leftists to expect us to pay his way. What? It´s not enough that your products are in practically every fridge, with Heinz condiments, you want more?
I am no rocket scientist and certainly no history maven yet even I could see the talking out of both sides of the mouth for what it was: spinning, changing position in the middle of a sentence, without losing conviction or really saying anything of substance. However, I do know his politics go hand in hand with Teddy Kennedy, another rich man who prefers to live off our money rather than his own. Tired old liberals who say one thing when running for office and do something else when elected. Just take the civil rights the liberals have been championing for decades and the resultant problems created today: the once disenfranchised now franchised to beat the band in the generational lifestyle of the welfare system.
When Kerry spoke of “when Eleanor and FDR were in the White House” I knew it was a heads-up on where his thinking comes from and wonder if he means us to have another co-presidency if he´s elected. If so, then how about the Missus Heinz starts talking and opening her life and record for the voters´ edification? We never elected Mrs. William Jefferson Blythe Clinton Rodham but wound up with her running the show behind the scenes and we don´t need to go there again.
Several times, Mr. Kerry mentioned that Bush shouldn´t go into war “unilaterally”. Hmm. After Kerry taking full credit for having Bush go to the UN Security Counsel, you´d think he at least could have noted the UNANIMOUS vote recently. But no, Mr. Kerry had to mention, over and over, Bush´s “unilateral” war, a slick inference to be made by the viewer that Bush is a rash cowboy who will go to war because he “wants” to go to war and not because we “need to go to war.”
On the death penalty: he is against it, but would prefer the more severe punishment of keeping the guilty alive and penned up. He didn´t mention the law library, special meals, prayer rugs and schedules, cable TV, etc. that make ‘stir´ so, well, stirring. On toxic waste sites: he would clean them up (personally?). On education: he would only say that “millions of children are being left behind” but failed to note that his own policies and votes have created than mess to begin with while offering no solution. Well, how could he? He knows of none. Talk about someone detached from everyday life. This happens to millionaires sometimes. They are just out of touch with anything but their own appearance at the next cocktail party or self-aggrandizing speech before their cultists.
I expect his handlers and hangers-on will soon have him mimicking the gestures of JFK and try for the nostalgia vote. That is, if the sympathy vote doesn´t poll well. But it won´t make any difference because his voting record in the Senate will out him and do him in. Good. Chalk one up for the good guys.
thanks for the link...appreciate it."......I would like to say for the record, and for the men behind me who are also wearing the uniform and their medals, that my being here is really symbolic. I am not here as John Kerry, but as one member of a group of one thousand, which in turn is a small representation of a very much larger group of veterans in this country. Were it possible for all of them to sit at this table they would be here and present the same kind of testimony.I would like to talk about the feelings these men carry with them after coming back from Vietnam. The country doesn't realize it yet but it has created a monster in the form of thousands of men who have been taught to deal and trade in violence and who are given the chance to die for the biggest nothing in history -- men who have returned with a sense of anger and betrayal that no one so far has been able to grasp. We are angry because we feel we have been used in the worst fashion by the administration of this country..........."
Check it all out in the book "Stolen Valor."
It's amazing how all these Democrats (Kerry, Cleland, Gray Davis) have managed to play up mediocre Vietnam records into "war hero" status. I guess because they actually went, rather than dodging the draft like their constituents.
Bump.
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