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It was a video that was supposed to elicit soaring patriotism and real emotions about the Pledge of Allegiance. But to do that, it used fake soldiers and a staged military funeral instead of the real thing. On Tuesday night, 15-year-old Victoria Blackstone, a sophomore at the St. Agnes School in St. Paul, led the crowd at the Xcel Energy Center in the Pledge of Allegiance. The audience heard her 434-word essay, “Pledging myself to the Flag of the United States of America,” an essay she’d entered it in the “Wave the Stars & Stripes” essay contest and won. The...

John Kerry Flip-Flop #1 - The $87 billionJohn Kerry said "I voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it", after saying it would be "irresponsible" for any senator to vote against it.click here for link and click here for link and click here for link and click here for link John Kerry Flip-Flop #2 - The 7 minutes after 9/11John Kerry said he would have reacted quicker than 7 minutes after 9/11, yet in reality he sat in disbelief for 40 minutes.click here for link John Kerry Flip-Flop #3 - Abortion judgesKerry was open to nominating pro life...

In an interview with the nation's largest homosexual magazine just weeks before the election, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry leaves open the possibility that he will change his position on same-sex "marriage" and says he will nominate judges who will fight for homosexual causes. The interview is part of the Oct. 26 edition of The Advocate, which features Kerry on the cover. The Massachusetts senator has drawn praise from activists for his opposition to the Marriage Protection Amendment but consternation from some for his stated opposition to same-sex "marriage." Asked directly by The Advocate if he "would ever change" his...

A pro-democracy Iranian group based in the United States accuses a top fund-raiser for Democrat presidential nominee John Kerry of aiding radical Iranian clerics. The Kerry fund-raiser is scheduled to be deposed in a civil lawsuit next week involving accusations that he has served as an agent for the Islamic government of Iran. A group of Iranian expatriates, Student Movement Coordinating Committee for Democracy in Iran (SMCCDI), and two American authors plan to hold a press conference this week to discuss the Iranian regime's influence on Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign. The event will take place Thursday at the National...

WASHINGTON - John Kerry (news - web sites) on Saturday looked to frame the next presidential debate in a specriticizing President Bush (news - web sites)'s economic record, but also tried to get in a final word about their last face-off by declaring himself the winner and Bush a liar. "George Bush (news - web sites) lost the debate," an announcer says in a television ad Kerry's campaign unveiled Saturday. "Now he's lying about it." The Democratic presidential candidate's accusation came two days after his first debate with Bush, when he told moderator Jim Lehrer that he avoids saying that...

A sportman's magazine's report that John Kerry owns a Chinese assault rifle is not true, the senator's presidential campaign contends. As WorldNetDaily reported, Kerry, who has pushed for bans on so-called assault weapons, was quoted in the October issue of Outdoor Life responding to a Q&A presented to both leading presidential candidates. "My favorite gun is the M-16 that saved my life and that of my crew in Vietnam. I don't own one of those now, but one of my reminders of my service is a Communist Chinese assault rifle." But campaign spokesman Michael Meehan told the New York Times...

"And [Gov. Howard Dean (D-VT)] also attacked Mr. Kerry's candidacy, saying he thought the senator would be a weak contender in the general election. 'He's going to have a hard time if he's the nominee,' Dr. Dean said. 'I think electability's a real issue for him. He appears to change his mind so often.' Dr. Dean went on to assert that Mr. Kerry's 'credibility is under enormous attack, repeatedly,' citing his votes in favor of the use of force in Iraq and of President Bush's education plan. 'He has this pattern,' Dr. Dean said, 'you saw it with No...

<p>May 13, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - Democrat John Kerry yesterday accused President Bush's team of being "panicked" into setting next week for the first court-martial of a soldier in the Iraqi prison-abuse scandal.</p> <p>"I think it leaves a terrible taste throughout the military . . . I think it's sort of a panicked move to try to display to the Arab world and others that we're going to do things immediately," Kerry told WFAN's Don Imus.</p>

<p>John Kerry said something amazing the other day. He was talking to the Wall Street Journal and was asked about his many attacks on "Benedict Arnold CEOs."</p> <p>In Virginia on Feb. 10, for example, he said: "We will repeal every single benefit, every single loophole, every single reward for any Benedict Arnold CEO or corporation that take American jobs overseas and stick you with the bill."</p>

(CNSNews.com) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry used the president's prime-time press conference Tuesday as another opportunity to attack President Bush on his handling of the war in Iraq. "Tonight, the President had the opportunity to tell the American people what steps he was going to take to stabilize the situation in Iraq," Kerry said in a statement. "Unfortunately, he offered no specific plan whatsoever. Rather, the President made it clear that he intends to stubbornly cling to the same policy that has led to a greater risk to American troops and a steadily higher cost to the American taxpayer."...

Some jokers who don't like the Democratic presidential candidate are trying to make his campaign Web site, johnkerry.com, the first answer to a search of the word "waffles" on Google, the No. 1 Internet search engine. They've nearly succeeded on the No. 2 search engine, Yahoo. By Sunday, eight days after the prank began, johnkerry.com was listed second among 703,000 results of a Yahoo search of the word "waffles." At the No. 3 search engine, MSN Search, johnkerry.com was also the second Web page result of a search Sunday for "waffles." On Google, johnkerry.com was not in the top 1,000...

Time to Go Back on the Offensive -- Immediately!The Democrat strategy is clear -- keep the focus off Kerry for as long as possible; keep Kerry under the radar and out of the view of voters for as long as possible.  That's what all the Richard Clarke, 9/11 Commission, Condi Rice garbage is all about.  And we have to stop it now.It doesn't matter how good or bad Americans thought Dr. Rice did; it doesn't matter whether Americans believe or do not believe Clarke; it doesn't matter if people think that the 9/11 Commission is a partisan sham -- all...

Wednesday, April 7, 2004Sandal whappers serenade Kerry Reporter's Notebook By Gregory Korte and Cindi AndrewsThe Cincinnati Enquirer Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is swarmed by admirers during his Tuesday appearance at Sawyer Point downtown. One of the homemade signs hoisted there read: "Outsource Bush." The Cincinnati Enquirer/STEVEN M. HERPPICH John Kerry had seen the tactic before - it emerged on the campaign trail last week - but few others seemed to understand what was going on. Young Republicans wearing cheap sandals got in the front row and started clapping them together almost as soon as the Democratic presidential candidate took...

According the following Reuters report... Kerry Says June 30 Iraq Handover Date a 'Mistake' ...John Kerry told reporters on Monday: "I have always said consistently that it is a mistake to set an arbitrary date and I hope that the date has nothing to do with the election here in the United States." Well, not quite. Before the date was agreed on Kerry was not only pestering Bush to speed up the transfer of sovereignty in Iraq (to please and appease the Axis of Weasels and the U.N.) he even called for a "specific timetable" (albeit to be established by...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush took the offensive on his re-election campaign Monday, casting Sen. John Kerry as a waffler and warning that the Democrats would raise taxes, expand the government and fail to lead decisively on national security. Previewing his principal re-election theme, Bush made national security the centerpiece of his revamped re-election speech, explicitly invoking the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. He questioned the credentials of the Democrats who want his job. "The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century," Bush told 1,400 people at a fund-raiser...