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Missing from the Democrat National Convention was the big political scandal of 2004: Former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, who was caught red-handed in a serious national security crime. Kerry, Clinton and Berger all lack one thing: Character. They can’t be trusted with America’s national security. Before Berger got caught, he was Kerry’s chief national security adviser. The moment Berger was found stealing classified documents down his pants and his socks to sneak them out of the National Archives, Kerry dumped him. (Kerry has yet to distance himself from the pathological liar Michael Moore, the filmmaker who wants the...

OCALA - The highest ranking enlisted man on Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry's U.S. Navy swift boat in Vietnam, Clearwater resident Del Sandusky, will visit three north central Florida sites next Wednesday. Sandusky will visit with UAW retirees on 4301 Maricamp Rd., from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., be at the Disabled American Veterans Center (Chapter 85) at 9892 SE 58th Ave., from 3-5 p.m. before concluding his visit at the Unified Training Center at 809 North University Ave., in Gainesville from 7-9 p.m. Sandusky was born in a farming community in Streator, Ill., in December of 1943. His father worked for...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- John Kerry's "reporting for duty" salute at the Democratic National Convention last month emphasized the key biographical boast of his campaign -- decorated combat service in Vietnam. Now his repeated claim that he also weathered combat upriver in Cambodia has drawn harsh skepticism -- driven by anti-Kerry veterans who star in a political commercial and book financed by Texas Republicans. Roy Hoffmann, a retired admiral who was a Navy captain in command of Kerry's unit at the time, said the candidate's past statements about spending a Christmas Eve in Cambodia can't be true. "I think he...

Alan Keyes and the swift boat vets supporting President Bush have a lot of things in common, but military service in Vietnam isn't one of them. Keyes was nowhere to be seen in Southeast Asia back then. Like Vice President Dick Cheney, he had other priorities and availed himself of student deferments. However, the anti-Kerry vets' TV ad that has garnered so much attention is a version of Keyes running for the U.S. Senate in Illinois. How is that? This is how: John Kerry is a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, and the only way Karl Rove and the...

<p>You wanted campaign finance reform. You got campaign finance reform. McCain-Feingold promised to take the money out of politics.</p> <p>If you believed that, you deserve what you got.</p> <p>And what you got is an avalanche of money into politics this year as George Soros, Democratic big shots and, to a lesser extent, Republican money men (Republicans are slower on the uptake) get into the business of “independent” political expenditures.</p>

WASHINGTON - Books like ``Unfit for Command'' may soar to the top of the bestseller lists and generate buzz on radio and TV talk shows this political season - but they are unlikely to sway large numbers of undecided voters. The reason is simple: Books with a sharp political slant tend to preach to the choir - hard-core partisan audiences - rather than win converts. ``They reinforce those who have already converted,'' said professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. Bookshelves and movie theaters have been awash in political fare as the 2004 presidential race intensifies...

On the 5th I posted an article title The Media is the Real Enemy - Watch Media Reaction to the Swift Boat Vets Story and be Convinced!. After observing what has happened since and in particular the performance typified by Crossfire and Hardball tonight, is there any question remaining that our primary activism objective needs to be defeating the media hegemony that nourishes the beast? I've been involved in FReeper activism beginning way back with the March for Justice in '98. I now believe my energies have been nothing but shadow boxing. Every single action that we have undertaken against...

Apparently David Alston was not wounded in head on January 29 when Lt. Peck was wounded.

It seems the Swift Boat Vets have delivered a swift kick to Kerry’s crotch. Ouch! That’s gotta hurt. What’s ironic -- and typical -- is the Left’s hysterically hypocritical spin machine screaming for the Swifties’ 411 to be immediately Dixie Chicked. The self- righteous, first amendment waving, Michael Moron embracers are not so free with freedom of speech when it happens to slow roast their presidential nominee a mere 80 or so days before the nation schleps to the polls. What’s funny, [not funny, “ha-ha” … funny “weird”] is as long as the information comes from one uberliberal, overweight, college...

.....Repya, a veteran of both the Vietnam and Gulf wars, launched the Minnesota Veterans for Bush effort at a State Capitol campus news conference Friday morning. "We are firing a shot over the bow of the SS Kerry and telling him Minnesota is Bush country," said Repya, a leader of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Minnesota. Scott O'Grady, who became a celebrity in 1995 after his F-16 fighter jet was shot down over Bosnia, criticized Kerry's anti-war activities and Senate votes on military matters, going so far as to accuse Kerry of "treason" for meeting with representatives of North Vietnam when...

Proof Kerry is Telling the Truth Major Embarrassment for the Right It turns out John Kerry is telling the truth about spending Christmas in Cambodia. A British journalist who worked in Cambodia in the Sixties has just come forward with a recording of the following popular Cambodian folk song: Grandma got run over by a swift boat Walking home from our hooch Christmas Eve You may say Cambodia has no swift boats But me and Aunt Teresa, we believe [chorus] She'd been smoking too much Thai stick And we begged her to keep low But she felt like skinny dipping...

The 2004 presidential election is generating a level of intensity both inspiring and frightening. Inspiring because it holds the promise of improving the anemic participation in elections. Almost all polls show that the share of voters closely following news about this campaign is up from 2000. Americans are sending the same message with their wallets: President Bush, Sen. John F. Kerry and Democratic interest groups all have raised unprecedented sums, much of it from small donors. All of which says millions of people care deeply about which man wins this election. The frightening part is that many people care almost...

COULD THIS HAVE BEEN A SET UP FROM THE VERY BEGINNING? I did not expect Matthews to agree with O'Neill, not by any stretch of the imagination. But I always thought Chris could rise above partisanship when truth was at stake. I've been thinking since the broadcast. Facts: 1. Matthews did nothing but recite the democrat talking points. (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5694561/) Well, compare that to Bush‘s record in Vietnam You‘re a Republican from Texas. But you have a record going back yourself. But you go back to the Nixon era, when Nixon was looking for someone. Colson and those guys were looking...

Dear *Dem SPAM receiver*,I'm interrupting John Kerry's dispatches from the road to tell you about something that will make you angry, but which is important for you to hear. We knew it was coming: the Bush campaign and several allied right-wing groups are using August to launch a vicious smear attack against John Kerry. They think we're vulnerable this month because while George Bush is still able to raise money for attack ads, Kerry had to stop fundraising at the Democratic convention last week. They're taking this opportunity go for the jugular. We need you to join us in this...

MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. John O‘Neill is the co-author of “Unfit For Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.” Mr. O‘Neill succeeded John Kerry‘s command of the PCF-94 swift boat in Vietnam. And John Hurley is the national director of Veterans for Kerry. Let me ask you gentlemen about these questions. But let‘s start with the central notion that a lot of us have of John Kerry. Whatever you think of his politics, he was a war hero. Is that true? JOHN O‘NEILL, SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TRUTH: That‘s not true at all. MATTHEWS: Why isn‘t it...

Unfit for Command is not listed on any of their best-selling book lists!

Election 2004: John Kerry was in Cambodia on Christmas Eve in 1968. Or he wasn't. We don't know which is true yet. But voters need to find out before Nov. 2. The Democratic nominee opened himself to the current scrutiny over his whereabouts in late December 1968 with comments he made in the Senate in 1986. "I remember Christmas of 1968, sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Vietnamese and the Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and the president of the United States telling the American people that I was...

Washington, Aug. 12: For the first time, Senator John Kerry, the Democratic presidential challenger, has been left floundering by allegations that he invented a key episode of his decorated wartime service in Vietnam — a central plank of his election platform. Kerry has fought off charges for several years that he did not deserve all the medals he won in Vietnam, which included a Bronze Star and Silver Star for gallantry, and three Purple Hearts for combat wounds. Crewmates from the small patrol boats in which he served in the Mekong Delta have always rallied to his support, contradicting allegations...

Please wake up, America! It's time we put John Kerry into proper perspective. Although I realize the Democratic Party is anxious to find a leader who will move them back into the White House and in control of Congress, John Kerry is not the right man! He's extremely dangerous, and his campaign is based on a lot of half-truths. I was in Vietnam operating a swift boat along the Vietnamese coast with hundreds of other Coast Guard and Navy crewmen. Virtually all Coast Guard and Navy boat crews were volunteers. For most of us, it was a frustrating time, because...

"Sen. John McCain called their ads "dishonorable and dishonest." Do you believe the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's assertions about Kerry's war record?"