Whining Republicans Out Fund-Raised By 527 Orgs, Using Old Barb-- Emotional Instability Accusations

OpEdNews.com ^ | August 21, 2004 | Rob Kall

[Cincinatus' Wife]

***Although the ad makes it appear as if Kerry is recounting atrocities he witnessed, he in fact was reciting claims made by soldiers that year during an anti-war gathering in Detroit. "They had personally raped, cut off heads, cut off ears," he told senators.

Reflecting on those comments this year, Kerry said they were too harsh. "I think some of the language that I used was a language that reflected an anger. ... The words were honest, but on the other hand, they were a little bit over the top," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press" in April. *** Source

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Unfit for Command [Excerpt] Kerry's testimony to the Fulbright Committee was a carefully orchestrated piece of political theater. Fulbright wanted a presentable, young Kennedy-esque face to put on the antiwar effort, and Kerry wanted a national forum from which to launch his climb to political celebrity. Ted Kennedy helped arrange Kerry's testimony with Senator Fulbright at a private fundraising event held at the home of Democratic senator Philip A. Hart of Michigan.

………Once Kerry learned that he would have the chance to give testimony before the committee, he recruited the assistance of Adam Walinsky, a speechwriter noted for his work with Robert Kennedy. Walinsky drafted the speech and coached Kerry on its delivery. The only image Kerry wanted us to see was a myth: a young man with a burning passion for the truth, the leader forced to sleep on the ground, the man answering his country's call to be where he was urgently needed, before a committee of the United States Senate where the senators and America were urgently waiting for his firsthand criticism of the war. He porceeded to level his charges: [End Excerpt]

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I'm beginning to wonder how long this political theater was in the making.

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Kerry's World: Father Knows Best****……….As early as prep school, John Kerry showed signs that he shared his father's suspicions about America's cold war foreign policy. In a debate at St. Paul's in the late '50s, he argued that the United States should establish relations with Red China. During his junior year at Yale, he won a speech prize for an oration warning, "It is the specter of Western Imperialism that causes more fear among Africans and Asians than communism, and thus it is self-defeating." And, when he was tapped to deliver a graduation speech in 1966, he used the occasion to condemn U.S. involvement in Vietnam, intoning, "What was an excess of isolationism has become an excess of interventionism."……….***

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John Kerry testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by William Fulbright, in April 1971. Photo UPI

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New Swift Boat Ad

A frame grab shows Vietnam war-era Swift boat veteran Ken Cordier speaking during a television commercial over Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry 's war record. Kerry asked the Federal Election Commission August 20, 2004 to force Republican critics to withdraw the ads challenging his military service, and accused the Bush campaign of illegally helping coordinate the attacks. Photo by Swiftvets.Com/Reuters

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

"Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers..."

- John F. Kerry (2 weeks from now)

[Tom_Busch]

I get the feeling that Rob Kall might indeed know a little something about emotional instability.

[Jim Robinson]

Ah, the poor babies. Looks like the SwiftVets are really getting to them.

[leadpenny]

A Faith Based Initiative for Bush (527) is on C-SPAN now. It is a news conference from yesterday.

[JoeSixPack1]

....he’s the most hated and despised person in the history of the world.

There goes my morning coffee!!!

[Watery Tart]

...the footage of Howard Dean, which we now know was bogus, with a false sound track. Wha??

THAT'S your problem, C-Wife! There you go, sourcing stuff again....

[goldstategop]

They hate President Bush so much they're unhinged. And Robert Knoll has the chutzpah to lecture to us on "emotional stability?" ROFL

[loboinok]

I think that ole boy has only one oar in the water!
Sounds like a excellent candidate for prozac.

[The Wizard]

the vets hates Kerry.....maybe he should have thought about that before he started dating Jane Fonda

[The Wizard]

these cats really are coming unglued.

[smonk]

emotional instability has become a democrat trademark. after watching the likes of howie dean, al gore, and al sharpton, perhaps it's not quite outlandish for us to slap the "off his meds" label on kerry when he flipped out.

memo to john kerry - if you're elected president, people will say a lot worse.

[leadpenny]

Which "ole boy?"

[loboinok]

Kall

[Irishgirl]

They are truly out of their freaking minds.

[Fenris6]

OMG. I hope this guy is getting psychiatric help.

[dennisw]

LOL! I had only heard the new Swift Boat advertisment. THe visuals look fantastic on that!

A frame grab shows Vietnam war-era Swift boat veteran Ken Cordier speaking during a television commercial over Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry 's war record. Kerry asked the Federal Election Commission August 20, 2004 to force Republican critics to withdraw the ads challenging his military service, and accused the Bush campaign of illegally helping coordinate the attacks. Photo by Swiftvets.Com/Reuters

[leadpenny]

They seemed pretty clear in their support of the Prez's Faith Based Initiative.

[JoeSixPack1]

Rat emotional stability is measured on the Richter scale. This article gets a 2+. :-)~

[leadpenny]

I think we are talking about two different things. I was watching a News Conference held yesterday at the Press Club.