The TRUTH About John Kerry (830 hits)
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Submitted by Alberto Frenrardo <alberto.at.nathanralph.com> (View user info) at 2004-04-22 17:42:29 EDT
Kerry did vote for the Patriot Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the war in Iraq, even though he constantly trashes the Patriot Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the war in Iraq. He voted against the Defense of Marriage Act, which limited marriage to a man and a woman, but he now says marriage should be limited to a man and a woman. (Although he also points out that he once attended a gay wedding.) And those are just the better-known issues on which Kerry has fli-flopped.
-----Vietnam:
The Democrats seem to love using Kerry's war record to prove that he will not be soft on national secrurity. However, his thoughts on war seem to have changed. In 1971, Kerry became involved in Vietnam Veterans Against the War, an antiwar group with ties to "Hanoi Jane" Fonda. Kerry served as the group's spokesman, marched on the Capitol, and testified before Congress. His role in Vietnam Veterans Against the War made him famous and, to some, infamous. The Nixon administration had a file on Kerry. Kerry has said that the antiwar movement was a "movement of conscience." He has said that he was "proud" to have marched on the Capitol in 1971.
-----Taxes:
Kerry has voted against TONS of tax cuts during his 19 years in the Senate. He voted against Bush's tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. He has voted against eliminating the marriage penalty in taxes - 12 times. In 1993, he voted for Clinton's tax plan which raised taxes by $240 billion. In 1996, he voted to raise gasoline taxes, saying he was "very proud" of his cote.
Now, Kerry claims to be a tax-cutter at heart. Give me a break. He's currently working on a tax increase for the wealthy: specifically those making more than $200,000 a year. John Kerry is no tax cutter.
-----National Security:
Kerry wants to combat the idea that Democrats are soft on national security. "I not only welcome that fight, I relish it," he told Newsweek recently. "If that's what they want, then I say to them, 'Bring it on!'" vote after vote, Kerry has sought to cut the nation's defense budget. The list is exhaustive, and exhausting. There's the 1991 vote to cut the Defense Department by $3 billion; the 1992 vote to cut an additional $6 billion; the 1993 vote against a military pay raise; the 1995 vote to freeze defense spending for seven years; the votes against the B-2 bomber, the Apache helicopter, the Patriot missile, the F-15 fighter . . . you get the idea.
In 1995, he voted to cut $80 million from the FBI's budget. Also in 1995, he introduced a bill that would have reduced the overall intelligence budget by $1.5 billion by the year 2000. The bill, which never came to a vote, was similar to one Kerry proposed in 1994. The 1994 bill would have cut $1 billion from the budgets of the National Foreign Intelligence Program and from the Tactical Intelligence Program, and while it didn't come to a vote, either, Kerry submitted the language in another appropriations bill--only to see it defeated.
-----Iraq:
In 1991, Kerry joined most of his fellow Democratic senators in voting against the Gulf War. At the time, he said he did not want to see U.S. soldiers die unless it was absolutely necessary. In a speech delivered on the Senate floor, he asked, "Is the liberation of Kuwait so imperative that all those risks are worthwhile at this moment?" Then he used a phrase that he would recycle 11 years later: "There is a rush to war here. We are willing to act, it seems, with more bravado than patience."
The truth is, Kerry's votes on Iraq over the last ten years have been wildly inconsistent: He voted against war in 1991, for war in 2002, and then against the $87 billion appropriation for reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003. What will happen, asks Peter Feaver, when Republicans ask Kerry, "Tell me the conditions under which you will use force?" It's a question for which the candidate doesn't seem to have a coherent answer.
-----911:
SEN. John Kerry boasts how he "sounded the alarm on terrorism years before 9/ 11," referring to his 1997 book "The New War." Too bad he didn't blast it when it really counted - four months before the hijackings, when he was hand-delivered evidence of serious security breaches at Logan International Airport, with specific warnings that terrorists could exploit them.
Former FAA security officials say the Massachusetts senator had the power to prevent at least the Boston hijackings and save the World Trade Center and thousands of lives, yet he failed to take effective action after they gave him a prophetic warning that his state's main airport was vulnerable to multiple hijackings.
He just did the Pontius Pilate thing and passed the buck" on back through the federal bureaucracy, said Brian Sullivan, a retired FAA special agent from the Boston area who in May 2001 personally warned Kerry that Logan was ripe for a "jihad" suicide operation possibly involving "a coordinated attack."
-----Death Penalty:
Note his words: "I am supportive of the death penalty." The Weekly Standard reports that the senator's stand on the death penalty has "evolved." Quote: "For years, Kerry opposed capital punishment in all cases. In 1996, during a debate with Massachusetts governor William Weld, who was challenging Kerry for his Senate seat, Kerry said Weld's support of capital punishment for terrorists 'would amount to a terrorist protection policy.' Kerry's position, on the other hand, 'would put them in jail.'"
In 2002, Kerry flipped again, telling Tim Russert: "I am for the death penalty for terrorists because terrorists have declared war on your country," but cautioned he opposed it "in the criminal justice system because I think it's applied unfairly." Time magazine reports: "'John Kerry never met a side of an issue he didn't like,' says Dean spokesman Jay Carson. And it is true that some positions have changed...." Expect Kerry to keep changing his positions, and then say, "They know I'm for this." That's what he's going to have to do, because he cannot stand on his voting record.
Kerry's going to have to come up with a slithery way to explain some of those votes, and he'll do so by saying he's "changed his mind." He'll probably say, "Well, since I'm now running for president, I'm not just a senator, and I have to look at these things a little differently. They know what I'm thinking out there. They know what I'm going to do. They're going to try to distort this." This is going to be his typical modus operandi. You wait and see.
-----Gulf War 1:
Does the name Wallace Carter ring a bell? He's the Massachusetts man who received two letters nine days apart from John Kerry in 1991, one supporting and one opposing Gulf War One. The New Republic published excerpts from both letters soon after, and OpinionJournal.com reports that a fellow senator and Vietnam vet mocked Kerry in a Lincoln Day speech to the Allegheny County GOP with them.
Dennis Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "At the time the first George Bush was still flush with victory in the Persian Gulf, and dinnergoers chortled over a videotaped presentation of assorted Senate Democrats backpedaling in the wake of a war they'd opposed. Ted Kennedy was shown. News clips were shown. But for Kerry, the speaker simply read the two letters, to everyone's amazement. 'It's like those before-and-after pictures they print in the papers,' the speaker said. 'If they didn't tell you so themselves, you'd think they were different people.'"
The guy giving the speech was Senator John Heinz, Republican of Pennsylvania - who died in a plane crash two weeks later leaving to his widow Teresa free to marry Kerry in 1995. Amazing. That is an incredible, creepy coincidence.
This isn't all, but this paper is long enough. To conclude, I'll list just a small percentage of issues that Democrat Presidential Candidate John Kerry has flip-flopped on.
Marriage Penalty
Patriot Act
Gulf War One
Castro Sanctions
Small Business Tax Hikes
Gay Marriage Ammendment
Affirmative Action
NAFTA
Death Penalty
State Abortion Laws
Federal Health Care
Welfare Reform
and many more...
Is this who you want in the White House for 4 years? Is this who you want leading your country? John Kerry isn't Presidential material, folks. He's a blatant hypocrite.
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Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2005-04-20 19:11:18 EDT (#)
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If only Bush supporters analysed his policies in this much depth.
Submitted by UNconfused (user info) at 2005-04-20 18:57:30 EDT (#)
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Well we're well into the Presidency and Bush hasn't banned moving to another country yet...Ashlee, you're a moron.
Submitted by UNconfused (user info) at 2004-04-26 00:01:30 EDT (#)
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http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Politics/Investigation/kerry_vietnam_medals_040425.html
Surprise, surprise. Yet another Kerry flip-flop is uncovered.
Submitted by QueenAshlee (user info) at 2004-04-24 03:06:53 EDT (#)
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Submitted by cwl989 (user info) at 2004-04-22 18:15:55 (#)
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Well, cock and balls. Bush, Kerry, either way we lose.
I'm moving to another country. Australia, maybe.
As a very good friend of mine just pointed out: If Bush gets reelected, you might not be ABLE to move to another country.
I'd rather have a hypocrite than a hypocritical, lying moron.
Submitted by ciao77 (user info) at 2004-04-24 02:51:09 EDT (#)
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All I can say is, no politician will be a perfect politician. As one of my friends puts it,
" they know how to speak but they're full of shit." ( as for Bush...he's not only full of shit, he can't speak worth shit). So if Kerry's elected, I don't think that all our problems will disappear...but ANYONE IS BETTER THAN BUSH!!! Bush is hypocritical bastard who only wants to end what his daddy started. His head is stuck way to far up his ass for him to really know or care about what's going on out there. If you want the perfect leader, you're in the wrong place. This is Earth, not heaven. But as far as I'm concerned, Bush is closer to being the devil than a normal, rational human being. One more thing, to anyone who actually CARES: VOTE AGAINST BUSH!!!! He's a lying, cheating, sack of shit who shouln't have been elected in the first place. Who the fuck cares who gets elected, so long as they're not GEORGE W!!
Submitted by UNconfused (user info) at 2004-04-24 02:39:15 EDT (#)
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I'm well aware of the hypocrisy of other politicians, as well as Bush being a hypocrite. But guess what: I'm a hypocrite; you're a hypocrite. Every is a hypocrite at one time or another and I am well aware of the hypocrisy of Bush's nation building and telling other countries what to do. However, Kerry is so far beyong hypocritical: it's laughable. The purpose of this post was to simply point that out.
Submitted by Sideburns (user info) at 2004-04-23 22:05:33 EDT (#)
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for hating jap cars.
Submitted by Totally_useless (user info) at 2004-04-23 11:04:54 EDT (#)
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It simply boils down to the lesser of two evils.
Submitted by slowlyrotting (user info) at 2004-04-23 09:39:54 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Sacrew (user info) at 2004-04-23 00:14:59 EDT (#)
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what does NAFTA mean?
Submitted by YourDadGuido (user info) at 2004-04-22 23:43:28 EDT (#)
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Extensive research, however I do find it quite one-sided (obviously an opinion post!).
Based on the fact you wish to exploit certain aspects, as in, the prevention of 9/11 rested solely on John Kerry, compared to the rest of Congress, are quite laughable. Every candidate hasn't had a perfect record in national or state politics, so, perhaps, instead of exploting one, we can talk about the same issues, but put an 'Anti-Bush' Twist. Here's a start:
Using Executive Privelage Excessively (more than any other presidency).
Budgets (gotta love that one!).
The prospect of Richard Clarke.
Could these be issues that can be hindering to Bush's image? Perhaps.
As for tax cuts....uhh, I'm glad Kerry is against tax cuts..why? Maybe because $500 billion dollars seems excessive. Also, as for funding issues in the early nineties...could you provide more relevant evidence?
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-04-22 22:42:36 EDT (#)
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Absolutely fucking awesome!!
It's about time that someone here turned MTV off and actually looked at the person that they are being led like good little sheep to follow.
Submitted by Razor (user info) at 2004-04-22 20:35:48 EDT (#)
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"Is this who you want in the White House for 4 years? Is this who you want leading your country?"
Given the choice between him and George W. Bush, yes.
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2004-04-22 19:02:07 EDT (#)
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Good writing, but I like this... http://www.ubersite.com/m/31073
Submitted by Lucifer_Industries (user info) at 2004-04-22 18:38:29 EDT (#)
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If I was in Washington, and a member of ANY party, I think it would be just as confusing to know what was going on and what to vote for too. Who's lying, who's sneaking stupid shit into important bills and vice versa? I would tend to think it better for someone to change thier minds about things after learning for better or worse that to have some hard nosed party liner.
Malone
Submitted by jchunks (user info) at 2004-04-22 18:35:38 EDT (#)
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So much propaganda from the GOP very early in a first term election. I wouldn't worry though, who could ever conceive of a Republican President being kicked to the curb after one term despite gigantic approval ratings stemming from a war in the middle east? Oh, wait.
Submitted by cwl989 (user info) at 2004-04-22 18:15:55 EDT (#)
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Well, cock and balls. Bush, Kerry, either way we lose.
I'm moving to another country. Australia, maybe.
Submitted by JinkyWilliams (user info) at 2004-04-22 18:07:31 EDT (#)
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I vote for Tom Hanks.
Stay orange.
--JW
Submitted by UltraJesus4000 (user info) at 2004-04-22 18:06:40 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-04-22 18:06:37 EDT (#)
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This is all just right-wing brain-washing bullshit. Shut the fuck up, asshole.
Submitted by mystiamoon (user info) at 2004-04-22 18:06:36 EDT (#)
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I'm not gonna -2 you simply because I am a Dubya hater.
This was well written and you are entitled to your opinion.
Submitted by facts (user info) at 2004-04-22 18:05:13 EDT (#)
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Yes, yes Kerry has flip flopped. But please tell the other side of the story too...you know the one with George Bush and the whole non-nation building thing. The modern politician sucks. Maybe all politicians suck, even the so called greats in the past.
Submitted by Luckystar (user info) at 2004-04-22 18:02:28 EDT (#)
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woohoo
sounds very well researched
Submitted by UNconfused (user info) at 2004-04-22 17:55:14 EDT (#)
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http://www.drudgereport.com/rcka.htm
This just in from Drudge...another Kerry flip.
Submitted by lilbill87 (user info) at 2004-04-22 17:50:40 EDT (#)
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Bravo, Very nice post!