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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Hey Joe--if you care so much about the poor, why don't you spend some of the family fortune residing in the Cayman Islands on the oil for the poor?
Just like your Commie-loving, lying, cheating uncle Ted.
"Quisling" stands for "traitor";what does "Kennedy" stand for?
A Kennedy by any other name would.....still smell rotten.
Joe Kennedy = Useful Idiot......
Joe Kennedy sucking up to a dictator? Just like his namesake.
The "Kennedy Legacy" came from the martyred status of JFK and RFK. Saint Kennedy.
They stay in America because it is easier for them to tear it down from within.
EXACTLY!
My question... Hey Joe whats your DRUG????
Don't you get it? Anybody who hates Bush is a friend of people like Kennedy.
He could be Hitler, if he bashed Bush loudly enough, he'd be a friend.
Geeze, I just looked up the guy's bio.
Apparently, he went the the University of Massachusetts.
I'm not trying to be elitist or anything, and but I can't help but wonder, given his background: Is he really so dumb that he couldn't even get into Harvard with all those connections?
"Kennedy really that dumb? OUR FRIENDS IN VENEZUELA???? OUR FRIENDS IN VENEZUELA????"
Unfortunately! Chavez, Castro, that Iranian guy, would be friends to Joe Kennedy and many other democrats. But to be fair, they hate George Bush and all of us. So it all balances out!
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