Actress and activist Jane Fonda at a 1970 anti-Vietnam War rally in Valley Forge, Penn.. John Kerry can be seen directly in the background.
Posted on 09/27/2004 11:53:54 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
'Hanoi Jane' Partners with MoveOn.Org
'Hanoi Jane' Fonda is teaming up with a leading anti-Bush 527 group in a bid to register millions of women voters to cast their ballots for her old anti-war protest partner, John Kerry.
Fonda, who called President Bush a "radical ideologue" during a campaign stop in New York City last week, was asked about her latest move during a recent interview with CNN's Paula Zahn, and explained why she's come out of political retirement to back Kerry:
ZAHN: Let's talk a little bit about this partnership you have with MoveOn.org, an organization that has spent tens of millions of dollars to try to defeat George W. Bush. Is it your primary goal to elect John Kerry?
FONDA: Our primary goal is to try to get the 50 million women who are eligible to vote and have not voted to vote. We want the woman's voice to be in the body politic.
ZAHN: But the fact is, Jane, with the vast amount of money that MoveOn.org has spent running ads against President Bush, is there any way you can encourage women out there who would be inclined to vote Republican to come to the polls?
FONDA: We're the majority. If we voted, we would make a difference. We could decide who was elected. We could decide whether the person elected, man or woman, was going to care about and speak to our issues. . . . .
ZAHN: Jane, I find it hard to believe when you talk to these 50 million women out there that didn't vote that you just want them to vote their hearts. You really want them to vote for John Kerry, don't you?
FONDA: I'm not putting myself, nor am I asked to be in either campaign. I'm just saying that I know that if women voted and they voted with their hearts and with their bodies and their souls, that the future would be more safe, because that's where our hearts are.
ZAHN: But you personally, obviously, are more comfortable with Kerry.
FONDA: I'm a Democrat. My father would strike me dead from the heavens if I ever voted for a Republican. Ted could never understand: "You've never voted for a Republican?" I can't do that to my father, who was a yellow dog Democrat. What can I say?
[END OF EXCERPT]
Zahn then broached the sensitive subject of the Vietnam War, which Fonda and Kerry protested together in 1970 and 71, prompting the controversial actress to share her insights into why so many Americans still hate her.
ZAHN: Jane, you have spent a number of years trying to put your controversial Vietnam past behind you. And yet for the last week or so, we have seen a tremendous amount of news coverage on George W. Bush's service in the national guard and questions being asked about John Kerry's service in Vietnam.
What does that tell us about how raw the feelings are to this day about the Vietnam War?
FONDA: It tells us that they're raw. It tells us that we have not healed. We need to heal from this wound, because it's very directly connected to what -- to the new wound. We haven't learned, you know, the lessons of Vietnam.
ZAHN: Jane, you have apologized to the families of Vietnam War vets, saying that maybe you have said some things that you wish you hadn't said along the way. Do you think you'll ever be able to satisfy people to this day who question what you did in Vietnam?
FONDA: No. There's a lot of people who -- who -- it's a cottage industry to hate me. And if they -- if they stop, that might mean that they'd have to look at some things that would question their own identity. And that's -- it's very hard for people to do.
[END OF INTERVIEW]
I know I'd feel a lot better about Vietnam if Jane Fonda were to spontaneously combust or something like that.
F the b*$^h.
BTTT!!!!!!!!
50 million? That stat looks highly inflated to me but then femitwits have a long history of lying about statistics -- that is when they bother to back up what they are claiming at all.
This ought to thoroughly tick off every single veteran in this country.
Vote your virgina is her slogan, catchy isn't it...
What's really pathetic, is the bit about her father never forgiving her for voting for anyone but a dim.
I couldn't get any further than that.
I think Attila the Hun and Hitler should start campaigning for Kerry. They aren't as hated as Hanoi Jane.
You're right Jane, we need to heal from this wound you created. I know when it's going to happen for me. I am going to watch your funeral from behind a tree, and just as soon as the last spade of earth has been tamped down I am going to dance a jig on it. Then, I will feel as if I have finally healed.
Yeah! That'll help.
I wish Kerry would put a picure of Hanoi Jane operating the VC anti-aircraft gun on the front of his podium Thursday night.
Classic. Thanks for the ping.
The ladies gave us 8 years of clinton.
Do I sound bitter????
I think they all should share their v...ote
This is why the 19th Amendment has failed. We don't need logic, just feelings. Use scare tactics and offer us a panacaea, we'll vote for you. Tell us your opponent somehow disadvantages our kids, and we'll beat a path to your door.
Thirty years later, and not one ounce smarter. THAT is a remarkable accomplishment.
AMEN Brother!
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