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'm more & more convinced. He will be trotting out "Post traumatic stress syndrome"
Wait & watch
I guess it isn't "seared" into his head as to who he is.
I wonder how many votes are going to be mistakenly cast for or against the Libertarian candidate for Illinois governor Jerry Kohn.
Teresa said she was on Prosac is an interview wih the Wash. Post a few years ago.
Excellent. And the title of the page is "Fact Check -- Intel".
I just confirmed. Kerry's website still claims he was vice-chair. I saved the entire page to my hard drive for posterity...
---You cannot make this stuff up !---
But Kerry can!
Yes, it was. He was a Lt.(jg) SEAL who won the Medal of Honor. Lost most of a leg in the process. Unlike JFnK, who got a couple of scratches and a bruise. He was anti-war as well after he came back, but he went and made something of himself before getting into politics. Where Kerry was a Lt. Governor under Dukakis, Kerrey was Governor before becoming Senator. He also ran for the Democratic nomination for President against Slick.
Bob Kerrey *was* a Navy Seal officer.
But which state's governor's mansion will he say it was in? :)
His campaign staff is very amateurish. But then again, many of them are Ted Kennedy staffers on loan, and this just supports further my contention that Kerry is an amateurish candidate on the national stage (as Kennedy would be, too), because as a left-wing extremist from Massachusetts, he's never really had to campaign before. Through money, connections, spouting the right socialist tripe, and throwing out the war hero lies from time-to-time, he's basically a shoo-in each time he runs up there. Not so on a national stage, or even in a state that has a more politically-diverse electorate, such as Texas.
The Gang that Couldn't Spin Straight!
LOL...could this be the "Sore/Loserman" tag for the 2004 election?
The next lie to come out is that John Kerry and Bob Kerrey are one and the same, and that its some sort of triple-extra Top Secret CIA project to confuse the Russians. The project was started in '68 when Kerry/Kerrey was/were sent in to Cambodia to assasinate a rogue American colonel who was establishing his own society deep in the jungle.
"They say we hit an iceberg, but keep on playing."
LOL..."They say we hit an iceberg...QUICK, let's rearrange the deck chairs!!!"
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