...she also likes Massachusetts-style fisting education!
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]
Moore, Kennedy, Burkett, Rather, now Fonda - who will be next to "help" Kerry get elected? How about Charles Manson?
I couldn't stop laughing while reading this.
This is unbelievable! The Clinton advisor/underminers are succeeding in completely derailing the Kerry Campaign. We couldn't ask for a better script!
This probably amplifies Jane's point but I'm sitting there watching them and thinking about Jane in her Barberella outfit and Paula in red pumps and fishnets and ...
Did anyone hear what they were talking about?
This is just too good to be true. The gods of fate have stuck it where it belongs. This should be good for about a 15 point drop for Kerry.
Spread the word. This woman is perhaps the most hated female figure in American history.
Hanoi Jane and Hanoi John, back together again.
I really am LOL. Thanks.
A match made in hell ~ Bump!
Does anybody know where I can find a solid estimate of POW deaths in '71 and after? I know we lost 14,000 guys in combat after Kerry opened his fat mouth, but I don't know abotut POWs.
Of course I'm not an expert, but I would think the last person Kerry would want to be associated with in present times is Jane Fonda.
All those centuries of women struggling to have a separate identity, to not be chattel of their fathers or husbands - the right to express their individual thoughts and to have the civil right to vote their separate conscience in matters of governance - all that thrown out the window by Ms. Fonda. She couldn't ever vote differently than her Daddy or Ted. Jeezzz. Does she not get feminism, or what?
HANOI-Jane and HANOI-John are NOT my favorite damnyankees!
but at least she apologised (for whatever good that is???).
free dixie,sw
i am very confused, is this message to us or to john kerry? "help is on the way!" humph!!!
My lame attempt at trying to state BARF ALERT!
He!!, I wouldn't want to catch it.lol
Now if they can only get Rather on board...
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. . . . .
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