Kerry's World: Father Knows Best

CBS News ^ | March 3, 2004 | Franklin Foer

[Howlin]

It sounds like all these Democrats have major issues with their DADDIES!

[restornu]

Just the thought of him winning would make one want to leave the planet!

If there was no God I would leave!

All of us who love and believe in a Creator must pray!

Kerry is one of the children of the Father of Lies!

[Inspectorette]

It sounds like all these Democrats have major issues with their DADDIES!

As opposed to President Bush 43, who clearly has a wonderfully close and loving relationship with President Bush 41. I love seeing the two of them together - they so obviously enjoy being together, whether it's to do the fun "guy stuff", or when it's a serious occasion, when the elder President Bush is there showing his unequivocal support for his son.

[Spotsy]

just as Americans exaggerate their own goodness, they exaggerate their enemies' badness. The Soviet Union wasn't nearly as imperialistic as American politicians warned, Kerry argues.

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Breathtaking. Do we need to list the Communist countries?

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Indeed, breathtaking! This election is a choice between ideologies, between freedom and slavery.

Yes Mr. Kerry, I am questioning your patriotism.

[baseballmom]

His stint in the military was to make him Kennedyesque. He got right down to America bashing as soon as he could.

Agreed about his pursuit to appear Kennedyesque. But it would also appear he was against the Viet Name intervention BEFORE his decision to sign up. According to the article,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."

He's been a bit conficted it would appear. Trying to please Dad, an appeaser of Marxist regimes and communists, and trying to emulate John F. Kennedy's anti-communists stance.

Great find -CW, thanks for posting.

[okie01]

Important stuff ping.

Know the father, know the son.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

News of candidate’s Jewish roots adds another flavor to campaign ***NEW YORK, Feb. 4 (JTA) — First it was then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Next it was Gen. Wesley Clark, the supreme allied commander of NATO during the war in Kosovo. Now it’s Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry whose Jewish roots are being reported.

Kerry? The Massachusetts senator, the quintessential WASP-y looking politician with an Irish-sounding name?

Yup.

Two of Kerry’s grandparents were Jewish, it turns out.

Kerry, who is a practicing Catholic, said he has known for 15 years that his paternal grandmother was Jewish, but had unsuccessfully searched for news of his paternal grandfather’s roots.

However, a genealogist hired by the Boston Globe found that Kerry’s grandfather was born to a Jewish family in a small town in the Czech Republic.

“This is incredible stuff,” Kerry told the Globe. “I think it is more than interesting. It is a revelation.” ***

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Why is he acting dumb about his grandfather?

[dirtboy]

Thanks for the heads-up. This is truly fascinating stuff.

[cyncooper]

Why, indeed...

[I still care]

So CBS is outing Kerry? Now this is interesting. Morris said last night if Kerry doesn't get Hillary to be his veep he would be pulling her knives out of his back all year.

He also said (and I am sure he is right on this) that the news organizations don't have the time or money to do backround negative work - these things come from political campaigns, for which research like this is their life blood.

There is always of course, the chance that the elite at CBS see an article like this as an extreme compliment.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

There is always of course, the chance that the elite at CBS see an article like this as an extreme compliment.

This is where I'm scratching my head. In their eyes it has to be good.

[kayak]

BumPing what could be the most important info we hear this whole election year.

[Molly Pitcher]

Thanks for the alert. Excellent, and am passing it on to a number of people...

[Lady Jag]

"It is the specter of Western appetite that causes more fear among Africans and Asians

[onyx]

I found it when I googled these words - John Kerry, France.

LOL-LOL-LOL

[snippy_about_it]

Bump and please excuse if this you already have been. Good background.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the ping Snippy.

[goodnesswins]

Thanks for the ping, Howlin.....here's something from CFR's Foreign Relations Review of this book....from 1991, I think....

"A one-time Foreign Service officer bemoans the "impatience" of Americans "with the complexity of things" and a determination "to solve international national problems our own way." Although the book was written before the Cold War was clearly over, the nation's behavior in the Gulf War indicates that the message still has some validity."

[RightWingMama]

Bump for later.

[mrs tiggywinkle]

**Permitting homosexuality didn't work out very well for the Roman Empire"**

If we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it.