Posted on 08/17/2004 7:21:10 AM PDT by lnbchip
John Kerry Confuses Himself With Bob Kerrey
Of course John Kerry is afraid to run on his left-wing Senate record, but does that mean he should pose as a colleague?
Imagine the screaming headlines and nationwide media ridicule if President Bush confused himself with another pol. But don't expect the New York Times and company to report this:
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In trying to defend his horrendous record on intelligence "and spin their way out of his lousy committee attendance record," Kerry's campaign "claimed on its website Monday, 'John Kerry served on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for 8 years and is the former Vice Chairman of the Committee.' Fact is John Kerry has never – ever! – served as vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence," the Republican National Committee noted today.
"Turns out, there as a senator named Bob Kerrey from Nebraska who was vice chairman for a while. Kerry’s website later pulled the plug on the page, which might be construed as a metaphor for the whole campaign."
The RNC suggested: "Instead of posting false qualifications on the campaign website, maybe it would be wiser for John Kerry and the Gang That Couldn’t Spin Straight to follow the advice of House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who called on the Kerry campaign Monday to end the controversy by simply releasing his committee attendance records. What are the odds?"
And thanks to Bush-Cheney '04 for finding this quote Feb. 10, 1994 in the Congressional Record from Kerry's Democrat colleague Dennis DeConcini, then a U.S. senator from Arizona: "Mr. President, the Kerry amendment includes a $1 billion cut in fiscal year 1994 and $5 billion over the next 5 years from intelligence activities."
Here's what Rep. Hastert said Monday: "John Kerry served on the Intelligence Committee from 1993 to 2000, and according to official records, John Kerry missed 76 percent of the public Senate Intelligence Committee hearings during that time. This figure doesn’t include his attendance at closed door meetings. Those records can only be released to the public at John Kerry’s request. This is something that needs to be done, and I join Senator Roberts, Senator Chambliss, Senator Cornyn, and Senator Coleman and others in calling on him to do so, so that the American people can judge the whole picture for themselves."
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said Sunday on "Meet the Press," "The easiest way out of this is for John Kerry and John Edwards to request of Senator Rockefeller and myself to release the attendance hearings; not only the public hearings, which they have rebutted, but the closed hearings."
Sen. John Warner, R-Va., said Sunday on CNN: "So I would go to what is solid, uncontrovertible fact, and that is the records that each committee keeps with regard to the attendance at every hearing of all the members, whether they're there or not. Now, those records are available. John Kerry, if he questions the authenticity of this ad that's out there now, should simply get those records and put them into the public domain."
Let's see, is there a positive spin to the fact that Kerry missed 38 of 49 public hearings of the Intelligence Committee, including the June 8, 2000, hearing on the National Commission on Terrorism's warning about the terrorist threat? Well, at least his 22 percent attendance rate was better than his Senate attendance recently.
I think the lies were deliberately planted with the public, hoping that no one would notice the difference between Bob Kerrey and John Kerry. A fact checker, using a search engine, might actually miss it, even though the names are slightly different.
"They say we hit an iceberg, but keep on playing."
this should be made into a tv ad, with a laugh track at the end. ridicule is a powerful weapon.
Kerry is an absolute moron. I STILL can't believe that the DIMS picked this turd. DAMN they're stupid.
I saw Kerry's advisor falling all over himself about this issue on Fox and Friends this morning. The look on his face was priceless.
FOX News caught a sneering Kerry campaign flack in this error.
The vacant look on his face when he was informed that he was really talking about BOB Kerrey instead of John Kerry was priceless.
BWWWWAAAA! ROTFLMAO!!!!! Classic!
GMTA < |:)~
Stop!!! All these nuances are giving me a headache.
I've mistaken myself for Bob Kerry two or three times over the last decade. Time to move on.
LOL - My eyes are permanently crossed right now!
Yes and what I find even hard to believe is that he could actually beat Bush.
I think W's gonna win but there's still a chance, and more of one than I'd like, that The Poodle could win.
OMG I think that would be the funniest ad in creation if they could get John Kerry's hair to look like Bob Kerrey's "I Claudius" Hairdo.
Seriously, do you mean that the advisor didn't even know about it from yesterday? They are in worse shape than I thought!
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