Posted on 02/12/2007 4:12:38 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Joe Kennedy Fires Back Letter to Florida Rep. Connie Mack Over Chavez Oil TV Ad
Monday , February 12, 2007
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WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Joe Kennedy fired off a letter Monday in response to a Florida congressman's calls for him to stop airing television commercials that heap praise on Venezuela for its providing discounted heating oil to low-income U.S. households.
"If your moral indignation requires that we not accept the discount oil to distribute to our most vulnerable families, then that same high moral standard should require that you not drive your car because it, too, probably uses gasoline made from Venezuelan oil," Kennedy wrote in a letter sent to Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fla.
"Maybe the fact that you live in Florida diminishes your concern for those who have to forgo food or medicine to pay for heat or turn to dangerous heating sources to stay warm, risking their lives to brave the cold," Kennedy wrote. "If so, maybe you could advocate that they move to your district to alleviate the need to figure out ways to protect them."
In a letter sent earlier in the day, Mack scolded Kennedy for the television ad that Mack says pays tribute to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, "a sworn enemy of the United States."
In the ad, Kennedy, founder and president of Citizens Energy Corp., a nonprofit energy company, thanks Venezuela and Citgo, a Houston-based oil company owned by the Chavez government, for contributing heating oil to low income senior citizens.
"I am Joe Kennedy. Help is on the way. Heating oil at 40 percent off from our friends in Venezuela at Citgo," Kennedy says in the commercial.
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LOL --- I hear ya, but I would like to see it ONCE!
I am Joe Kennedy. Help is on the way. Big kickbacks are possible in an operation like this. Thanks Venezuela and my buddy Hugo!
Jet - what time is Cavuto's show? I got MobiTV for my handheld and would like to finally find a use for it.
They are his friends. He has never met a socialists, communists, or murderer that he did not love.
Again, he was speaking from his point of view, not decent people's.
So, at a time that Democrats are criticizing Mitt Romney for kicking off his Presidential campaign at the Henry Ford museum because Ford was an anti-Semite, the Democrats are arguing that we should accept oil from socialist dictators. Don't you just love Liberal logic?
He comes on at 1600 (4 P.M) Eastern.
And yet the windmills wouldn't even be visible from shore....
Peter Schweizer stated in his book "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" that the windmills would actually be about six miles off the coast and not visible, but that Kennedy opposed them on the grounds that it would be in one of their favorite sailing and yachting areas.
WTF? Don't those yachts contribute to global warming and pollute the oceans?
Most excellent - right at lunchtime here on the West Coast.
It's just that every once in a while, they require the poor to supply them with a sacrificial virgin. Certainly, this is not to much too ask of the poor in return for the love the Kennedys shower upon them.
*sigh* I despise them and would love to see them poor.
Hey, in another couple years with the rampant global warming maybe Joe Kennedy can get Hugo to sell people discount air conditioners.
YES. Kennedy is that dumb. How can that be a surprise?
While we here in Massachusetts have long known that he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer,his problem isn't stupidity...it's amorality.
Papa Joe was a closet Nazi, and Little Joe is obviously a friend to Commies like Hugo and Fidel.
The rotten apple never falls very far from the dead tree.
Is Kennedy really that dumb? OUR FRIENDS IN VENEZUELA????
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When he says "our", he is referring to himself and his friends, all America-haters.
I make it a POINT never to go to anyplace that sells CITGO.
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Same here.
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