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A friend of mine serving in Iraq sent me this photo and note. I received it before Christmas, but was out of the office. Priceless story it tells.... "This is a true story.....Check out this photo from our mess hall at the US Embassy yesterday morning. Sen. Kerry found himself all alone while he was over here. He cancelled his press conference because no one came, he worked out alone in the gym w/o any soldiers even going up to say hi or ask for an autograph (I was one of those who was in the gym at the same...

Democratic Sen. John Kerry, mulling a second bid for the U.S. presidency, finished dead last in a poll released Monday on the likability of 20 top American political figures. Among those placing ahead of Kerry were about a dozen potential 2008 White House rivals, including Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona. "This is bad, bad news for Kerry," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute in Hamden, Connecticut, which conducted the survey. "Americans know who he is, and have pretty much decided they don't like him," said...

Too late, Mr. Kerry. Your apology is 35 yrs too late. Your attitude toward the American Troops has reared its ugly head again and we are tired of it. Your weak apology won't cut it with me. You said you support the military, but your words and actions say otherwise. Mr. Kerry, you are a traitor to the United States of America. You ought to be locked up and charged with treason. Mr. Kerry, also, you need to resign from the United States Senate. You are a disgrace to the office of Senator and to the United States of America.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Sen. John Kerry said on Wednesday he was sorry about a "botched joke" that drew election-year fire from President George W. Bush and other Republicans who accused him of insulting U.S. troops in Iraq. Kerry reiterated the target of his joke was Bush, who immediately seized on the senator's remarks to rally Republican supporters ahead of Tuesday's elections, in which the party's control of Congress is at risk. Kerry said he was returning to Washington from a trip campaigning on behalf of Democratic congressional candidates because he did not want to be "a distraction." A day...

I was looking for but couldn't find a comprehensive list of Ketchup Boy quotes from Jenghis Khan to "I committed war crimes" to shooting Dan Quayle and, later, President Bush to this latest idiocy. Anyone have something like this? Thanks

Just announced on the FNC.

Check out some of the comments: Comments (339) All blog comments are strictly opinions of the writers and do not reflect the views of Friends of John Kerry. Ben Harris: You are a disgrace Senator. As a proud servicemember I am ashamed to have you in the US Senate. I believe your comments have shown us a nice little Freudian slip of where your beliefs really are. Posted by Ben Harris | October 31, 2006 4:17 PM Anthony Fontes: SHAME SHAME SHAME Posted by Anthony Fontes | October 31, 2006 4:17 PM A Big Fat Slob: Can you obtain and...

WASHINGTON --Four years to the day after voting to authorize war in Iraq, Senator John F. Kerry today asserted that the vote is his greatest regret of his political career, and said all lawmakers who voted for the war should admit that it was a mistake. "There's nothing -- nothing -- in my life in public service I regret more, nothing even close," Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, wrote in a dispatch on the liberal blog HuffingtonPost.com. "We should all be willing to say: I was wrong, I should not have voted for the Iraq War Resolution." snip...... Throughout his 2004...

A federal judge dismissed a filmmaker's defamation lawsuit against Sen. John Kerry, saying remarks linked to Kerry's campaign during the heat of the 2004 presidential race amount to political opinions. Filmmaker Carlton Sherwood sued Kerry and John Podesta, an aide who ran the Massachusetts Democrat's campaign in Pennsylvania. Sherwood accused them of blocking the release of his documentary about Kerry's anti-Vietnam War activities by labeling Sherwood a "disgraced journalist" and a "Bush hack." The Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. canceled plans to air the documentary "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal" on its stations before the November 2004 election. U.S. District...

WASHINGTON -- Senator John F. Kerry is placing himself at the center of congressional action over the war in Iraq this week with a crisply worded resolution to require President Bush to withdraw almost all US troops by the end of this year. The measure has exposed Kerry to attacks from Republicans and some Democrats, as critics rushed to tag the plan as a ``cut-and-run" strategy. But it also has made him a rallying point for antiwar activists. The sweeping resolution amounts to the senator's sharpest condemnation of the war and his broadest repudiation of his own vote to authorize...

Despite my total disgust with the biased media, I had decided to move to another topic. That is, until today when I heard John Kerry discuss the reasons for his failure to win the presidency. I didn’t mind his excuse regarding his party’s failure to get out the vote, even though his people got him more votes than any other candidate, save President Bush, in the history of our nation. How’s that for gratitude? But rather, it was his comments regarding how FOX Cable News, Sinclair Broadcasting, and talk radio had done him in. This excuse was so pitifully lame...

Ketchup boy: You voted or Bush? Why?ketchup girl: You said you were going to tax our overseas operations.Ketchup boy: Not ours, everyone elses, but not Heinz.

Title : THE DEMOCRAT PARTY - STILL DELIVERING THE GARBAGE Date : 2004-10-29 THE DEMOCRAT PARTY - STILL DELIVERING THE GARBAGE © By Norman Liebmann The Democrats are the political equivalent of the Galapagos Islands where time decided that Evolution ain’t all it’s cracked up to be and made a U turn. The idea of a Carter followed by a Clinton followed by a Kerry makes one marvel at the Democrats’ capacity to spawn human dross. Any consideration of the leading exponents and their idolaters and drones indicates the Democrat Party’s urgent need to be, not only reformed, but wormed....

NEW YORK -- October 24, 2004 -- Days away from the Presidential election, NBC News' Katie Couric sat down with Senator John Kerry. The interview will air Monday morning on "Today" (7-10 AM ET) with a preview on the interview airing Sunday evening on "Dateline NBC" (7-8 PM ET). SOUNDBITES OF THE INTERVIEW FOLLOW - MUST GIVE CREDIT TO NBC NEWS' TODAY AND KATIE COURIC - MUST STATE INTERVIEW AIRS TOMORROW MORNING ON "TODAY." KERRY: "Now let me just look you and America in the eye and tell you this. Unlike Dick Cheney and George Bush, I put my life...

Hunt gives voters... Well... AN image of Kerry. Really Unbiased Media Program (Filed by pool reporter... special to RUMP News) BOARDMAN, Ohio Oct 21, 2:01 PM (ET) Democratic presidential candidate John Forbes Kerry went goose hunting today in an effort to connect with the common voter. Kerry adviser Mike McCurry said it's important in the final days of the campaign that voters "get a better sense of John Kerry, the guy. We only have 12 days to get the message across that even though the Senator may LOOK like an effete elitist Massachusetts Liberal snob, he can be just as...

I just receive the latest issue of Runner's World today. It's bad enough that John Edwards is on the cover - but when I opened it up to read the athletic comparisons between Bush and Kerry I had to laugh. It lists John Kerry's athletic achievements, one of them being the Boston Marathon. It mentions that he ran the Boston Marathon in the 70's - but he doesn't remember his time, and no official record exists. Par for the course... Sorry, I couldn't find the story at the Runner's World website.

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry called today for Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign and urged President George Bush to appoint an independent group to recommend reforms after a report faulted all levels of the military for abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. “It’s not just the little person at the bottom who ought to pay the price of responsibility,” Kerry said at a Philadelphia union hall. “The buck doesn’t stop at the Pentagon.” A report released yesterday by an independent panel led by former Defence Secretary James Schlesinger concluded that senior US military leaders in Iraq and the...

BOSTON -- Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry on Thursday lashed back for the first time against a group of Vietnam veterans critical of his wartime service, accusing them of doing President Bush's "dirty work" and suggesting that he, in turn, will challenge Bush's military record. Two weeks after the veterans launched a television ad questioning Kerry's actions in Vietnam, the back-and-forth over the former Navy lieutenant's record enveloped the campaign, as new records undercut the credibility of one of his critics. During a speech to several thousand firefighters, Kerry directly challenged allegations by the group, Swift Boat Veterans for...

Judge to hear why newspapers denied access to Heinz's will Thursday, August 19, 2004 By Jim McKinnon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A judge has scheduled a hearing at which the executors of the estate of the late Sen. H. John Heinz III must show cause for keeping the will sealed. In an order Monday, Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Frank J. Lucchino scheduled the hearing for Sept. 14. Two newspapers, The Los Angeles Times and The Morning Call of Allentown, have petitioned Allegheny County courts to unseal Heinz's last will and testament. "There is no indication in the file that this estate...

I just watched John Kerry's acceptance of the Democratic Presidential Nomination-out of curiousity to see what he would say. And boy...the lies just don't stop! It appalls me to see people cheering a man who stands on no principles except for those that seem convenient that day. Once again, Kerry flouts himself as a Vietnam veteran. How dare he, a man who actively protested against the war with Vietnam Veterans against the War, and a man who betrayed his fellow servicemen during the Winter Soldier investigations. This is a man who accused fellow servicemen of comitting war crimes in Vietnam...

Yeah, well if they suck that bad make your own! There once was a man named Kerry Whose voting record was very scary He flips and he flops, while his poll numbers drop and his positions seem contrary There once was a Democrat named John who of waffles he was very fond over and over he served them up while for some odd reason his followers ate them up until they evetually caught on Part 1: The Fairy There once was a fairy named Leon who asked a paticular John what is your wish I'll serve up a dish and...

If any of you missed it, Sen. Zell Miller just came up with one of the great lines so far in the campaign. He and Sean Hannity were discussing balancing of the ticket. Miller said that what Kerry did to balance the ticket was that "Kerry chose a smiley face to go along with his frowny face." God bless Senator Miller. He is putting his country above his party. He is perhaps the last honest Democrat.

MIDI - SISTER GOLDENHAIR -- scroll down and open SISTER GOLDENHAIR in your Media Player or other device As a ticket they're more lib'ral...than all RATS who have come before Would those guys defend this nation or would they be a U.N. whore Of their follicles they're bragging...I guess we're supposed to care They do not have *alls but they have pretty hair One's a big time trial lawyer...one is kept as a ketchup boy To get your vote in No-ve-ember, they'll be trying every ploy Of their follicles they're bragging...I guess we're supposed to care They do not...

NANTUCKET, Mass. - After a week of campaigning for the less fortunate, John Kerry (news - web sites) went on vacation with the fabulously wealthy. Kerry is a rich man who promotes the Democratic ideal that government should do more to help the poor. He moves between both worlds, spending the past week traveling to downtrodden places like South-side Columbus, Ohio, and the affluent island playground of Nantucket. Not since President Kennedy have Democrats been prepared to nominate a man of such riches. President Clinton (news - web sites) didn't own a home until he left the White House and...

Okay, we all know that Kerry has decided to take a week off from campaigning but the question is, will he actuall go the the job he has been neglecting for the past 8 or 9 months? All I could find was the following blurb right at the end of a story: During this week of unscheduled time off, Kerry said he will do some office work that has been neglected as he travels the country.

WASHINGTON -- John F. Kerry yesterday defended the idea of leaving the Democratic National Convention in July without a formal nomination as his party's presidential candidate, saying that there is ample political precedent to support it and that Republicans are complaining about the move because "someone might have a way of neutralizing their advantage." The Massachusetts senator told the Globe: "One thing I can tell you is that on Wednesday night, the [candidate for] vice president of the United States will be nominated and give a speech, and on Thursday night I will give my speech."

I once was impressed by John Kerry's war record, but no more. For one thing, I'm puzzled he served in Vietnam just four months. Did he fight simply to decorate his resume? By most accounts, he already was planning to be the next president from Massachusetts with the initials JFK. So why would he join a war that he opposed, unless it was to earn political credibility? Then there's his first Purple Heart, the one he earned on Dec. 2, 1968, near Cam Ranh Bay. The more you learn about it, the more you snicker. According to a report by...

H. J. Heinz Co. is in a pickle. The Pittsburgh-based foodmaker has been deluged with e-mails from unhappy consumers who want to know why it's involved in the presidential campaign. The company's emphatic answer is, "We're not," and it has hired some big-time Republican lobbyists to help spread the word. "We make ketchup; we don't make politics," asserts Jack Smyth, a Heinz senior vice president. Still, it's easy to see why customers might think otherwise. The multimillionaire wife of Sen. John F. Kerry, the Democrats' presumptive presidential nominee, is often referred to in the press as "the ketchup heiress." Teresa...

I am sure that many of you out there are aware of the whole Kerry throwing away his ribbons, medals, both, someone elses medals (I think you get what I am saying)controversy. Well, I know that since Kerry is such a great war hero and since he was "forced"(notice the sarcasm) to throw over his medals(last week) or his ribbons (this week), we should do our duty by replacing them. (Keep in mind, we don't know what he will claim he threw when we ask him next week...he might change his mind again!) This is why we all should send...

<p>RIGHT now, John Kerry's message seems to boil down to this: I deserve to be president because I served in Vietnam.</p> <p>But that's not a vision for America - and it clashes with the American concept of heroism. Every time Kerry argues about what he did or didn't do with his Vietnam medals, he sounds less and less like Gary Cooper.</p>

IF JOHN KERRY hadn't already clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, his medals meltdown on "Good Morning America" this week would have sunk his campaign. Much as Howard Dean's crazed "I Have A Scream" speech jolted voters into wondering whether someone so hotheaded should be allowed anywhere near the nuclear trigger, Kerry's abusive tirade on ABC gave millions of viewers a foretaste of how far presidential discourse will sink if Kerry becomes president.

John Kerry's Phantom Attackers: The "Victim Act" is Wearing ThinJohn Kerry's MO couldn't be more obvious: claim that anything he says is a response to an "attack" -- even though his opponents haven't said a word.  Thus, he he hopes, he can continually go negative and be on the attack, claiming that he is just acting in self-defense.  People are beginning to catch on to this "phantom attacker" strategy.  Of course, we can hasten the demise of this strategy, and turn it against him, by pointing it out to everyone we know.One way to alert people to Kerry's ruse is...

  DEMAND that John Kerry Testify Under Oath Before the 9/11 CommissionWrite A letter to the editor demanding John Kerry's testimony on what he knew and when he knew it.1.  Open the "Write for W" window by clicking HERE.2.  Enter your ZIP CODE and click "Get Info"3.  Select Every News Outlet Listed!!!4.  Enter your info5.  Write your letter!You can use the sample below, or, of course, you may draft your own :) Subject:  Senator Must Testify Before the 9/11 CommissionSenator John Kerry must testify, under oath, before the 9/11 Commission.On May 7, 2001, Brian Sullivan, an FAA Special Agent, sent Senator...

What's next, bungie jumping? Do you really someone in the White House who is going through a midlife crisis? Kerry Backfires Kerry Snow Boarding

What Would Kerry Do As President? Senator Doesn't Always AnswerBy Susan JonesCNSNews.com Morning EditorApril 08, 2004 (CNSNews.com) - For the second time in two days, Sen. John F. Kerry on Wednesday seemed unable to answer a question about what he would do if he were president. Kerry this week has blasted the Bush administration for its "failures" in Iraq. On Wednesday, in an interview with American Urban Radio Networks, Kerry called the administration's actions in Iraq "one of the greatest failures of diplomacy and failures of judgment that I have seen in all the time that I've been in public...

The Democrats have hitched their Presidential hopes to one of the strangest nominees in a long time, John Kerry. His cold aloofness, his thin-skinned nastiness, his habit of marrying wealthy women and living grandly on the proceeds, and his unique propensity for deep-cutting self-satire (“I voted for it before I voted against it”), make him remarkably unappealing to the non-ideological swing voters who will decide the election. Recall for a moment that the only reason he became the front-runner was the Democrats’ desperation in the wake of the Howard Dean public meltdown. Prior to that moment, Kerry’s campaign had gone...

Red, white and blue colors cover the screen on MTV's website as the words appear, "The last election was decided by 500,000 votes nationwide. In some states it was decided by 50,000 or 5,000 or 500. In the last election, 18 million young people voted. What if that were 20 million? Who's swing voting now?" The same network that has given us "The Osbournes," "Punk'd," and "Total Request Live" also contributes to the seriousness of politics by delivering "Choose or Lose," the current MTV campaign to mobilize 20 million young voters in November. "Choose or Lose," launched in 1992, brought...

John Kerry's Own Words on 9/11CNN.com, September 11, 2001, Congress vows unity, reprisals for attacksSen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, called the attacks "a declaration of war" that "demands a forceful response."Added Kerry, "I have no doubt in my mind it's Osama Bin Laden." "It's very much in keeping with the threats he has made," Kerry said. "The intelligence community has known all summer they have building up for some kind of attack." Kerry said a number of attempted attacks, or plans for attacks, have been"thwarted" this summer. He said he was briefed by CIA Director George Tenet on this a few...

Choose or Lose: 20 Million Questions for John Kerry Special MTV - Music Television Airing Time: Tue 3/30, 10:30PM (30 minutes) Categories: News, Special, News/Public Affairs, Special/Other Future airings of Choose or Lose: John Kerry Special: • Wed 3/31 11:00 AM MTV - Music Television Wed 3/31 8:30 PM  MTV - Music Television (Satellite) Fri 4/2 12:30 AM  MTV - Music Television (Satellite) And airing other times. Kerry gets 30 minutes to tell his lies to the youth of America. I wonder if they will also give President Bush his own "Choose or Lose" Special?

If elected/re-elected in 2004, who do you think would do a better job in increasing the number of jobs in America, John Kerry or George Bush? Kerry 45% => 1731 votes Bush 44% => 1702 votes I'm not sure 9% => 351 votes I don't care 1% => 55 votes Current number of voters: 3839 © *The Excite Poll is provided by Rosner Interactive Services. It is a voluntary poll for our users, and is not scientifically projectable to any other population. We present these polls to give Excite users an opportunity to share their opinions on particular topics....

President Bush's campaign for re-election has an easy job running anti-Kerry ads. All it has to do is quote John Kerry. The most laughed-about quotation in the new TV commercial about the Massachusetts Democrat's flip-flop on Iraq: "I actually did vote for his $87 billion, before I voted against it." Kerry's campaign responded by raging that "America continues to falter." By the way, still no comment from Kerry's handlers on his ringing endorsement from anti-Jewish zealot Mahathir "Final Victory" Mohamad.

http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/covent/97/midi/midi1.html MIDI - FLIPPER There is a man, a mystery man He'd hurt our nation all that he can Changing his mind like his underwear John Kerry's full of hot air They call him Flipper, Flipper And what he stands for we do not know It's anyone's guess They call him Flipper, Flipper And he'll proudly tell you He voted "No" but first voted "Yes" There is a man, a mystery man Terrorists are so glad that he ran Changing his mind like his underwear John Kerry's full of hot air They call him Flipper, Flipper And what he stands...

http://www.geocities.com/~goldenoldies/jukebox5060.htm MIDI - WHAT'S YOUR NAME What's their name...is it Kim or Fidel What's their name...have they said "Give Dubya hell" We're still waiting, Mr. Kerry, so please tell us who they are So, what's their name, what's their name, what's their name What's their name...is Assad on the list What's their name...is Khamenei really p*ssed We're still waiting, Mr. Kerry, so please tell us who they are So, what's their name, what's their name, what's their name We know you have traveled all around the world...you had met them eye to eye They say "We're scared of your cowboy...

<p>March 16, 2004 -- IT'S the silly season, that time in the election cycle when campaigns gear up, candidates make gaffes - and the thoughts of the "Spin Sisters," the elite sorority of women's magazine editors, journalists, television producers and PR executives, turn to politics.</p> <p>Democrat politics, that is.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON - John Kerry yesterday charged that President Bush failed to win the "war of ideas" against Osama bin Laden and isn't doing enough the safeguard America.</p> <p>Kerry - who seldom speaks out on terrorism, which is considered a winning issue for Bush - said the White House "hasn't pursued a strategy to win the hearts and minds of people around the world and win the war of ideas against the radical ideology of Osama bin Laden."</p>

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Monday criticized President Bush's record on homeland security, saying his Republican rival is "big on bluster and short on action" in protecting the nation. Speaking to the International Association of Firefighters, a 263,000-member union that has endorsed his candidacy, the four-term Massachusetts senator argued that Bush talks tough on terrorism but has failed to back it up with the financial resources firefighters and other first responders need. "I do not fault George Bush for doing too much in the war on terror, I believe he's done too little," Kerry said. "I think...