Doonesbury does John Kerry... 1971

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[CapandBall]

October 21, 1971

October 22, 1971

October 23, 1971

[CapandBall]

Ah Ha! I heard the other day he now claims he only threw his ribbons on the Capitol steps...

[jocon307]

What a great find! Thanks for posting this. Oh and it's true, he did only throw his ribbons, and some other guy's medals.

Did you really think John Kerry's mother would let him throw his own medals away? In a war protest? Certainly NOT! Now he needs them to run for president. Proving, always listen to your mother!

[Just Lori]

This guy is SO pathetic.

[BenLurkin]

A monument for John Kerry (from the flint-lock period Amigo)>>>

[nutmeg]

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[nutmeg]

Great find! Thanks.

[weegee]

This one could be run again this year if only the captions in the last 2 panels were changed...

[MJY1288]

Excellent find

[RWR8189]

So was Kerry in Vietnam or something?

[Only1choice____Freedom]

So was Kerry in Vietnam or something?

I haven't heard.

[ntnychik]

ping

[TheMole]

Here's John Kerry before he went to Vietnam. He's out sailing with some Kennedys, learning early how to stand up for the little guy against the special interests.

Photo courtesy of the invaluable Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry.

[Grampa Dave]

The left wingers, who got into politics because of the Viet Nam War, haven't really changed much.

Now they wear $1,000 suits, ride in limos and mouth the same hate America trash talk.

[weegee]

This strip could be run as though it happened at one of his 2004 election rallies. The last two panels could read:

(panel #3) "You not only voted for the war resolution..."

(panel #4) "You supported Bill Clinton's military campaigns in Iraq, you blockhead!"

[Smokin' Joe]

Outstanding link. I really wonder how many people in ND have seen/remember this, especially after the Democrat primary caucus.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Kerry soon assumed a leadership position in the rabid pro-communist VVAW organization.
Kerry, pictured right, directing VVAW's massive pro-Hanoi demonstration in Washington. - April 1971

[weegee]

His "New Soldier" book (co-written with VVAW) is a hot seller now. The book trades on ebay for $130-350 and the only copy I can find on Bookfinder is $750. I've even seen a couple of copies signed by Kerry (one reportedly signed while he was at the Iowa caucus and this was captured on Fox News).

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Its amazing to think we fought and beat communism all over the world and there are people in this country who would plunge us headlong into it ! without blinking an eye in a dream for a selfish utopian society.

[weegee]

McCarthy was right. Americans are way too soft on Communism these days.

[autoresponder]

J-FK:

THE REAL KERRY

By HOWIE CARR
February 5, 2004 -- BOSTON

ONE of the surest ways to get the phones ringing on any Massachusetts talk-radio show is to ask people to call in and tell their John Kerry stories.

The phone lines are soon filled, and most of the stories have a common theme: our junior senator pulling rank on one of his constituents, breaking in line, demanding to pay less (or nothing) or ducking out before the bill arrives.

The tales often have one other common thread. Most end with Sen. Kerry inquiring of the lesser mortal: "Do you know who I am?"

And now he's running for president as a populist.

His first wife came from a Philadelphia Main Line family worth $300 million. His second wife is a pickle-and-ketchup heiress.

Kerry lives in a mansion on Beacon Hill on which he has borrowed $6 million to finance his campaign. A fire hydrant that prevented him and his wife from parking their SUV in front of their tony digs was removed by the city of Boston at his behest.

The Kerrys ski at a spa the widow Heinz owns in Aspen, and they summer on Nantucket in a sprawling seaside "cottage" on Hurlbert Avenue, which is so well-appointed that at a recent fund-raiser, they imported porta-toilets onto the front lawn so the donors wouldn't use the inside bathrooms.

(They later claimed the decision was made on septic, not social, considerations).

It's a wonderful life these days for John Kerry. He sails Nantucket Sound in "the Scaramouche," a 42-foot Hinckley powerboat.

Martha Stewart has a similar boat; the no-frills model reportedly starts at $695,000. Sen. Kerry bought it new, for cash.
   

Every Tuesday night, the local politicians here that Kerry elbowed out of his way on his march to the top watch, fascinated, as he claims victory in more primaries and denounces the special interests, the "millionaires" and "the overprivileged."

"His initials are JFK," longtime state Senate President William M. Bulger used to muse on St. Patrick's Day, "Just for Kerry.
He's only Irish every sixth year."
And now it turns out that he's not Irish at all.

But in the parochial world of Bay State politics, he was never really seen as Irish, even when he was claiming to be (although now, of course, he says that any references to his alleged Hibernian heritage were mistakenly put into the Congressional Record by an aide who apparently didn't know that on his paternal side he is, in fact, part-Jewish).

Kerry is, in fact, a Brahmin - his mother was a Forbes, from one of Massachusetts' oldest WASP families.

The ancestor who wed Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter was marrying down.

At the risk of engaging in ethnic stereotyping, Yankees have a reputation for, shall we say, frugality.

And Kerry tosses around quarters like they were manhole covers.

In 1993, for instance, living on a senator's salary of about $100,000, he managed to give a total of $135 to charity.

Yet that same year, he was somehow able to scrape together $8,600 for a brand-new, imported Italian motorcycle, a Ducati Paso 907 IE.

He kept it for years, until he decided to run for president, at which time he traded it in for a Harley-Davidson like the one he rode onto "The Tonight Show" set a couple of months ago as Jay Leno applauded his fellow Bay Stater.

Of course, in 1993 he was between his first and second heiresses - a time he now calls "the wandering years," although an equally apt description might be "the freeloading years."

For some of the time, he was, for all practical purposes, homeless.

His friends allowed him into a real-estate deal in which he flipped a condo for quick resale, netting a $21,000 profit on a cash investment of exactly nothing.

For months he rode around in a new car supplied by a shady local Buick dealer.

When the dealer's ties to a congressman who was later indicted for racketeering were exposed, Kerry quickly explained that the non-payment was a mere oversight, and wrote out a check.

In the Senate, his record of his constituent services has been lackluster, and most of his colleagues, despite their public support, are hard-pressed to list an accomplishment.

Just last fall, a Boston TV reporter ambushed three congressmen with the question, name something John Kerry has accomplished in Congress.

After a few nervous giggles, two could think of nothing, and a third mentioned a baseball field, and then misidentified Kerry as "Sen. Kennedy."

Many of his constituents see him in person only when he is cutting them in line - at an airport, a clam shack or the Registry of Motor Vehicles.

One talk-show caller a few weeks back recalled standing behind a police barricade in 2002 as the Rolling Stones played the Orpheum Theater, a short limousine ride from Kerry's Louisburg Square mansion.

The caller, Jay, said he began heckling Kerry and his wife as they attempted to enter the theater. Finally, he said, the senator turned to him and asked him the eternal question.

"Do you know who I am?"

"Yeah," said Jay. "You're a gold-digger."

John Kerry. First he looks at the purse.



-- Howie Carr, a Boston Herald columnist and syndicated talk-radio host, has been covering John Kerry for 25 years.




-- (sent to me by my CT cousin in Fairfield)

[autoresponder]

more from my CT cuz:





E-mail message

From: my CT cuz
Date: Thu, Feb 5, 2004, 9:43am
To: (me)

- Kerry gets three Purple Hearts for trivial wounds.

- Never spends one hour in a hospital.

- Gets Silver Star for shooting a corpse.

http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com/

- Kerry says Vietnam Veterans are war criminals who committed atrocities.

http://www.pbs.org/greatspeeches/timeline/j_kerry_s.html

[Your Ilk]

nice picture of "JFK" with the commie (Viet Cong (Vietnamese Communist)

[Only1choice____Freedom]

"Do you know who I am?"

Mrs. Heinz's poodle! - per Ann Coulter.

[Happy2BMe]

"- (sent to me by my CT cousin in Fairfield)"

Nothing like a local-yocal to really spill the beans.

Please thank your cuz for all of us - keep 'em coming.

I loathe Kerry for what he did to 'Nam Vets. Probably more than I loathed Clinton for turning the White House into a whore house.

I am extremely dissappointed on Bush's sellout of the border, but he's the only ticket in town.

[Travis McGee]

What a phony!

[jackbill]

From the Cape Cod Times today:

Big Dig dollars flowed to Kerry donor
Senator's office says intervention on behalf of insurer was not related to subsequent campaign support.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - A Senate colleague was trying to close a loophole that allowed a major insurer to divert millions of federal dollars from the nation's most expensive construction project. John Kerry stepped in and blocked the legislation.

Over the next two years, the insurer, American International Group, paid Kerry's way on a trip to Vermont and donated at least $30,000 to a tax-exempt group Kerry used to set up his presidential campaign. Company executives donated $18,000 to his Senate and presidential campaigns.

Were the two connected? Kerry says not.

But to some government watchdogs, the tale of the Massachusetts senator's 2000 intervention, detailed in documents obtained by The Associated Press, is a textbook case of the special interest politicking that Kerry rails against on the presidential trail.

"The idea that Kerry has not helped or benefited from a specific special interest, which he has said, is utterly absurd," said Charles Lewis, head of the Center for Public Integrity that just published a book on political donations to the presidential candidates.

"Anyone who gets millions of dollars over time, and thousands of dollars from specific donors, knows there's a symbiotic relationship. He needs the donors' money. The donors need favors. Welcome to Washington. That is how it works."

The documents obtained by AP provide a window into Kerry's involvement in a two-decade-old highway and tunnel construction project in his home state of Massachusetts. Known as the Big Dig, it had become infamous for its multibillion dollar cost overruns.

Kerry's office confirmed yesterday that as member of the Senate Commerce Committee he persuaded committee chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., to drop a provision that would have stripped $150 million from the project and ended the insurance funding loophole.

Kerry actually was angered by the loophole but didn't want money stripped from the project because it would hurt his constituents who needed the Boston project finished, spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said.

When the "AIG investment scheme (came) to light, John Kerry called for public hearings to investigate the parties involved and the legality of the investment practices. However, he firmly believed cutting funding for the Big Dig was not the answer," Cutter said.

Instead of McCain's bluntly worded legislation, Kerry asked for a committee hearing in May 2000. Kerry thanked McCain at the start of the hearing for dropping his legislation and an AIG executive was permitted to testify that he believed the company's work for the Big Dig was a good thing even though it was criticized by federal auditors.

Asked why Kerry would subsequently accept a trip and money from AIG in 2001 and 2002 if he was angered by the investment scheme, Cutter replied: "Any contributions AIG made to the senator's campaign came years after the investigation. Throughout his career, John Kerry has stood up to special interests on behalf of average Americans. This case is no different."

The New York-based insurer, one of the world's largest, declined to comment on its donations to Kerry, simply stating, "AIG never requested any assistance from Senator Kerry concerning the insurance we provided the Big Dig."

The project has become a symbol of government contracting gone awry, known for its huge cost overruns that now total several billion dollars, and its admissions of mismanagement.

During the 1990s, Sens. Kerry and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., helped win new federal funding for the project as its costs skyrocketed and threatened to burden the state's government. In 1998, Kerry was credited with winning $100 million in new federal funding.

But in 1999, the Transportation Department uncovered a financing scheme in which the project had overpaid $129.8 million to AIG for worker compensation and liability insurance that wasn't needed, then had allowed the insurer to keep the money in a trust and invest it in the market. The government alleged AIG kept about half of the profits it made from the investments, providing the other half to the project.

Outraged by the revelations, McCain submitted legislation that would have stripped $150 million from the Big Dig and banned the practice of allowing an insurer to invest and profit from excessive premiums paid with government money. "Any refunds of insurance premiums or reserve amounts, including interest, that exceed a project's liabilities shall be immediately returned to the federal government," McCain's legislation declared.

But Kerry and Kennedy intervened, and McCain withdrew the legislation.

(Published: February 5, 2004)

[ntnychik]

From the Vietnam Veterans against John Kerry link:

After his third Purple Heart Kerry requested to be sent home. Navy rules, he pointed out, allowed a thrice-wounded soldier to return to the United States immediately. Commodore Charles F. Horne, an administrative official and commander of the coastal squadron in which Kerry served, filled out a document on March 17, 1969, that said Kerry had "been thrice wounded in action while on duty incountry Vietnam. Reassignment is requested ... as a personal aide in Boston, New York, or Wash., D.C. area. In April 1969, having engineered an early transfer out of the conflict because of his three minor wounds, John Kerry left his crew behind and returned home to a sweet assignment as an admiral's aide.

My father declined a Purple Heart for his shrapnel wounds in the Battle of the Bulge, despite the fact it would have meant 5 more points toward the end of his 2 year deployment. He felt the American dead were the heroes, and the Purple Heart was for those who suffered and sacrificed due to their wounds.

Also from the VVAJK link:

Kerry was a supporter of the "People's Peace Treaty," a supposed "people's" declaration to end the war, reportedly drawn up in communist East Germany.

It included nine points, all of which were taken from Viet Cong peace proposals at the Paris peace talks as conditions for ending the war.

One of the provisions stated: "The Vietnamese pledge that as soon as the U.S. government publicly sets a date for total withdrawal [from Vietnam], they will enter discussion to secure the release of all American prisoners, including pilots captured while bombing North Vietnam."

In other words, Kerry and his VVAW advocated the communist line to withdraw all U.S. troops from Vietnam first and then negotiate with Hanoi over the release of prisoners. Had the nine points of the "People's Peace Treaty" favored by Kerry been accepted by American negotiators, the United States would have totally lost all leverage to get the communists to release any POWs captured during the war years.

http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com/

Read the link, pass it on, NEVER FORGET!

[js1138]

That picture has been retouched by Steven Spielberg to change his bomb detonator to a walkie-talkie.

[maica]

Its amazing to think we fought and beat communism all over the world and there are people in this country who would plunge us headlong into it ! without blinking an eye in a dream for a selfish utopian society.

--- while making claims like
a) communism was no big deal
b) Gorbachev ended the Cold War
c) Bush has singlehandedly squandered all the love that the rest of the world has had for us for the past 50 years.


Dims in general, and Kerry in particular, are so arrogant that they believe they can say ANYTHING because everyone is too dumb to know they are lying.

[faithincowboys]

Question, why won't Kerry release his med records?

If he is gonna run on Vietnam, the least he should do is release his medical records!

[Travis McGee]

The Marxists never quit, they merely changed tactics: infiltrating academia, government, and expecially the judiciary. (Witness the MA SC.)

[onyx]

Damn, he's awful, isn't he? The thought of him scares me, Travis.

[MeekOneGOP]

[maica]

Did you know that Anthony Lewis, Communist, NYTimes, is the husband of the Chief Justice on the MA SC?

[Travis McGee]

That figures! The crypto-communists have succeeded in their "Long March" to win control of the critical institutions beyond their wildest dreams.

[onyx]

Good memory, maica. I had forgotten ALL about Anthony Lewis's dreadful wife. He is so far left, I guess she is too.

[GeronL]

Biggie BUMP

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

BTTT

[Lady Jag]

BUMP for H&C tonight