Posted on 06/01/2004 11:56:15 AM PDT by SJackson
Edited on 06/01/2004 3:54:28 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Kerry - MisOverEstimated
That's not America, and if it was, I wouldn't want to live there....
The poem's in post 5. We aren't going back anywhere, it could be titled, if you include the refrain
Let America Be America Again--(America never was America to me.)
Or, as the author's bio notes,
no "Jim Crow," no anti-semitism, and education and medical care for everyone. Stalin delivers., the ideal, Stalinist Russia
When in doubt j*** off.
It's a duplicate post a duplicate post within the same post within the same post.
I guess Mr. Kerry has never read this poem.
I love the story about Kerry ,reportedly, flipping off a Vietnam vet at the Vietnam Memorial Monday morning. How come cameras are never around Mr. Kerry when things like this occur?
ha ha! Hey I saw Pat Robertson on the 700 club talking about Frenchy, how Frenchy grew up in the French town of St. Briac, and how he speaks fluent French which I never realized. Gee, I don`t get it! Why doesn`t Jacques Freggin` Kerry try to impress the American citizens with a demonstration of his expert use of the French language? ha ha! Can you imagine? One news clip of that and it`s all over.
HA HA!! LOL!!! Look at his face!! HA HA!! Oh man, that`s a good one.
Langston Hughes, where are you? Alive or dead ... Kerry needs a VP nominee.
Let America be Amerika
That's why he won't speak French - BBC had video of French TV trying to get Kerry to speak French.
He could come out and do so, Bush tries Spanish, but Kerry is so entwined with France he knows there would be a backlash.
It seems 50% of his speeches have to do with France - he uses the code word "allies." But he has no problem saying a four-letter f word. go figure.
http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews/News/040601a.asp
John Kerry's French Connection
By Dale Hurd
CBN News Sr. Reporter
June 1, 2004
When Kerry got into the race in 2003, the automatic assumption in the pundit class and among anyone who hadn't studied his background thoroughly, was that the man is Irish.
CBN.com – SAINT-BRIAC-SUR-MER, France -- This is Kerry Country. No, it is not Massachusetts. And it is not Ireland. It is Brittany, on the coast of France, where John Forbes Kerry's French roots go through this pretty seaside village called Saint Briac-by-the-Sea.
It was here in 1908 that the wealthy Forbes family came over from England to buy a cliff-top mansion. It is where his American dad met his mother, and where a first cousin is still the mayor.
If you missed the media revelations earlier this year about Kerry's newly discovered French roots, and you still assumed he was Irish, you are not alone. The senator, who is actually half-Jewish and half-English with a lot of French relatives, is accused of being less than forthcoming about his heritage.
As a boy, Kerry spent many a summer at the Forbes family mansion called Les Essarts. One resident says he remembers playing with the Forbes children on the playgrounds of Saint Briac. The woman says she played many games of "hide and seek" with "Johnny," as she calls him.
Family friend Dominique Durocher says everyone in Saint Briac is very proud of Kerry, and they are hopeful that he will be the next president, so that relations between France and the U.S. can improve. Durocher says Johnny was already interested in politics as a teenager.
It really is a wonderful story, about summers spent at a lovely seaside resort. But it hasn't been a story the Kerry campaign has wanted to talk about.
We discovered that the mayor of Saint Briac, Brice Lalonde, did not want to talk to us about his famous American cousin. Apparently, the Kerry campaign is nervous about the 'French connection,' as well as news photos showing Lalonde's obvious pride in Kerry.
Durocher said, "Nobody talks anymore much, you know, because they said they have decided not to talk about John Kerry, and France and Saint Briac. Because maybe it could be bad for, not bad, but you know somebody in America will say you are too French or too, you know."
The two cousins are said to remain in regular contact, so we asked the Kerry campaign if it or the senator asked Lalonde to stop talking to reporters. They did not respond.
Lalonde once ran for president in France as well, in 1993, on the Ecology ticket, and he served as the environmental minister in the cabinet of Socialist President Francois Mitterand. Lalonde is known as a committed environmentalist, but apparently not committed enough for some.
In Paris, French political analyst Florin Aftalion told us that Lalonde was kicked out of the Green Party because they thought he wasn't radical enough.
Meanwhile, here is Kerry wearing the green at a St. Patricks Day breakfast in Boston in 1995, when most of his Massachusetts voter base still thought he was Irish. Kerry told the Boston Globe that he has always been "clear as a bell" about not being Irish.
But in 1984, Kerry is quoted as saying, "As some of you may know, I am part-English and part-Irish." And in 1986, a Kerry speech in the Senate reads, ''For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions (of) Irish-Americans…"
The Kerry campaign has said those speeches were submitted for the record and never actually read by Kerry, and in fact were written for him by his staff, who also were apparently in the dark about their boss not being Irish.
When Kerry got into the race in 2003, the automatic assumption in the pundit class and among anyone who hadn't studied his background thoroughly, was that the man is Irish.
Newspapers often described him that way, and media-digging has not turned up a single letter to the editor from Kerry explaining that he was Austrian-Jewish on his father's side. The Jewish name was Kohn, later changed to Kerry, and English-French, the Forbes, on his mother's side.
Massachusetts has more Irish-Americans than any other state. And Mike Gilleran, the former deputy chief of the Massachusetts Republican party, told the media that, "If it were understood by the population that (Kerry) was not Irish, he would never have risen in Massachusetts politics."
"Politically speaking, in a presidential sense, it pays to be Irish," says CBN News Political Editor John Waage. "There are undecided, independent, blue-collar, ethnic Reagan Democrat voters to be had, in vote-rich electoral states. Now, if your ancestry is French, where you gonna go? Quebec doesn't have electoral votes to offer."
If Kerry were running against Bush in France, he would win, hands down. The French love his style, and the fact that he speaks French fluently.
Most French hate George W. Bush. But the French won't be voting in this election. And with some Americans viewing France as an adversary these days, it is support that Monsieur Kerry doesn't need, and the reason his campaign would like to change the subject.
Laissez l'Amérique être l'Amérique encore!
Pulleeeze; does Kerry miss the irony or perhaps they think we will?
Of course, it could happen; but only when Kerry and all the Liberal Left abandon their goals for America or simply give up and leave.
Gee, and they laughed and poked fun at Bob Dole recalling the past and not having the vision to lead the country over the bridge to the 21st century...
Which parts of John Kerry's past will we be allowed to include? or not include?
Dang, for a guy who criticizes Republicans for asking questions about his past, he sure seems to want to talk about it a lot...
I should know to read previews from the IHT more critically.
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