Well, gosh, I'd assume Kerry had a big tax cut in mind with all the billions he was proposing saving.
Posted on 06/06/2004 7:22:37 AM PDT by southernnorthcarolina
John Kerry in the Cape Codder -1984 How do we know Kerry was wrong? Here’s an excerpt from the new book John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography by the Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best: “Twenty years later in his campaign for president, Kerry would rewrite history by listing Grenada among the U.S. military incursions he had supported. ‘I was dismissive of the majesty of the invasion of Grenada,’ Kerry says now. ‘But I basically was supportive. I never publicly opposed it.’”
Possibly adam_az knows more; I know nothing other than the contents of the document, which I saw for the first time today. It is obvious from its context (including the reference to President Reagan) that this paper was produced during Kerry's first Senate campaign, in 1984. Anything else would be conjecture on my part, but I'd guess it was a campaign press release.
If Kerry had had his way our troops would be going into battle armed only with the "Clinton". Ie with nothing more then their d#cks in their hands....
Well, gosh, I'd assume Kerry had a big tax cut in mind with all the billions he was proposing saving.
Kerry on National Defense (20 years ago)
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Possibly a better title would have been:
- "Kerry on National DefenseLESS" ??
- "Kerry on Gutting the National Defense" ??
:^D
Where the heck did that paper come from? That is a GREAT find!
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Thanks...
Not to nitpick, but the color of your text hurts my eyes.
The credit should go to adam_az, who first posted it on another thread. The resourcefulness of FReepers never ceases to amaze.
There's not a single word on this document that comes as a surprise, but seeing it on Kerry's letterhead makes it so much more powerful.
LOL!
But remember one thing, Kerry is French, so we would be in full surrender mode at the first spitball attack...
I'm thinking poster-sized!
You wound me to the quick. The color is (more or less) the team color of my beloved alma mater. But perhaps I should make it a little darker... or darker still... or even darker. Better?
Hmmm, let's see what Ronald Reagan said about people like Kerry:
"A Hippie is someone who walks like Tarzan, looks like Jane and smells like Cheetah."
"A Hippie is someone who walks like Tarzan, looks like Jane and smells like Cheetah."ROFL ! I haven't heard that in AGES ! hahaha! :^D
And for more on how Kerry really felt about Pres. Reagan, click here. From the link:
In 1984 campaign literature: “We are continuing a defense buildup that is consuming our resources with weapons systems that we don’t need and can’t use.
“The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a presumed ‘window of vulnerability,’ which we now know not to exist.
“And Congress, rather than having the moral courage to challenge the Reagan Administration, has given Ronald Reagan almost every military request he has made, no matter how wasteful, no matter how useless, no matter how dangerous.
“The biggest defense buildup since World War II has not given us a better defense. Americans feel more threatened by the prospect of war, not less so. And our national priorities become more and more distorted as the share of our country’s resources devoted to human needs diminishes.”
Kerry was also the pivotal figure in the infamous Iran-Contra hearings that led up to the crisis in the Reagan administration. He spent the spring of 1986 conducting an unauthorized investigation into reports that the Reagan administration was illegally providing aid to the rebel Nicaraguan Contra armies, which were attempting to overthrow the left-wing government of that Central American nation.
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This should play front and center in the election.
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