and the hits just keep right on coming!!!
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.
Notice that Bob Kerrey, who really was a war hero, doesn't like talking about the war, and doesn't like talking about his medals. The men who earned their medals know that the real heroes were the guys who didn't make it back, the guys who took a bullet for their buddies, the guys on the Wall.
Limbaugh talking about the Kerry/Kerrey flap.
That's what happens when you don't show up for work much.
El Rushbo just mentioned the same thing.
and the hits just keep right on coming!!!
Bob Kerry only has one leg.
Wonder how Frenchie is going to pull that one off....so to speak..
Rush just cleared it all up.
"Kerry was the secret vice chairman"
ROTFL
Dang, I missed that! Was he denying, stupefied, clueless....or what? thanks!
Prairie
It is beginning to look like the only difference between the Titanic and the Kerry campaign is the Titanic had a band.
I saw the spokesman for the campaign speak this on Brit Hume yesterday and Brit called him on it. The guy said he would have to check.
Too funny!
All your chairmanships belong to us!
We need to be repeating this on every thread about Kerry.
Hey, it would even make a great ad for W.
--Bush has released his joint tax records.
--Bush's medical records are public.
--Bush's military records have been examined and re-examined by the press.
--And Bush is there for ALL Intelligence briefings before it even gets to the Intelligence Committee!
His staff thought it will help him GET some intelligence.
Yes, he is a moron and many,including myself, believe he was actually chosen because of his likelihood for failure in this election cycle.
Well that and the other 8, except for maybe lieberman, couldn't even have been passed off as credible choices.
That being said, it's damn scary that kerry is giving our man a run for his money. It doesn't bode well when half the voting population is that naive/stupid.
I am beginning to think this is true - in a literal sense. He seems to have serious memory problems. He doesn't remember things that did happen and he does remember things that didn't happen. His memory is created from movies, pictures, and other records. He doesn't have an actual memory of many events.
This increases the need to check out his medical records. Does he have some neurological condition that affects memory?
The scary part of all this is that half the VOTERS are stupid enough to vote for him! I mean, look at Clinton's elections-- both time elected with only 43% of the vote. I am convinced that at least 43% of registered voters are not qualified to vote, and are probably not even literate.
...but in this case the boats are heading TOWARDS the ship....
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