I think he looks more like the bad guy from “Re-Animator”. Can’t find a god pic, though.
Kerry will be more anti-gun than Bush. His appointees, like the Attorney General, will be more anti-gun than those of Bush. His choice for Vice President will be more anti-gun than Cheney. They’ll be more animal rights friendly. They will be less friendly to my industry. They’ll be more enviromentalist (whacko types) friendly. I hate GWB for the Iraq mess and the Patriot Act, but Kerry is far, far worse on other issues that are important to me.
Thanks for all the cites to back up your allegations here. As rjung has noted, many of those “flip-flopping” claims involve such complicating issues as how one should actually pay for the war in Iraq and how the money should be spent. Apparently, we are now in a democracy where if you don’t precisely support the President’s view on this, you are voting against paying for it period. You know, the black-white, you are either with us or against us mentality that seems to appeal to 5 year olds and a distressingly high number of conservatives. It is truly pathetic how low political discourse has sunk in this country.
By the way, here is a cite regarding some of the atrocities that were committed and were documented in reports that just won Pulitzer Prizes:
Must be really boring to have your life revolve around guns.
Don’t you ever get out?
I guess an “environmentalist (whacko types)” are people who hold the radical idea that maybe the regulated industries shouldn’t be practically the only ones whose views are considered in writing environmental regulations (not to mention the cases where even their words have been used).
Your response seems better suited to the Pit. Anyway, I listed several other things. :rolleyes:
It can all be found here:
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/index.php?topic=Testimony
Of particular interest is this passage:
I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.
This veteran takes issue with Kerry’s representations, and asks some very valid questions.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12736
So? The kids who line up to beat up the socially inept misfit are the ones who really deserve to get their bones broken. He’s usually better than they are, and I think you know it precious well.
And finally, another piece which raises some issues about Kerry’s conduct as an office, but probably not a gentleman.
*Senator John Kerry wants you to know that he participated in war crimes while serving in Vietnam.
Appearing on the Dick Cavett show in 1971, Kerry leaned toward the camera and offered this rousing confessional: I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions in which the houses of noncombatants were burned to the ground. And all of these acts, I find out later on, are contrary to the Hague and Geneva conventions and to the laws of warfare. So in that sense, anybody who took part in those, if you carry out the application of the Nuremberg Principles, is in fact guilty."
The remarks proved a real crowd pleaser (nothing plays in politics like the first person confessional of a former sinner who has found the error of his ways). This was Kerry’s chief tact for launching his political career. Fresh back from the war, he embarked on a television tour where he confessed all manner of war crime and pleaded for redemption.
During a 1971 appearance on Meet the Press Kerry explained, “I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages. All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare, all of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions and all of this is ordered as a matter of written established policy by the government of the United States from the top down. And I believe that the men who. . .ordered us. . .are war criminals.” (more)*
“So my question is: what is so bad about Kerry? Why would anyone hate, or strongly dislike, him?”
For me it’s the whole “more liberal than Teddy Kennedy” thing …
You sure did…my bad.
How much you hate animals and the envioronment.
Sorry.
Possibly. I probably should have used extreme instead of whacko. It’s more of a case by case basis. Babbit in the last administration is what I would consider a extreme enviromentalist. I am for drilling in Alaska and on the Otero Mesa in my state of NM.
Still pit material, but I don’t hate either. I do disagree and in some cases dislike animal rights activists and extreme enviromentalists. I don’t kick dogs for hell of it or pour oil down storm drains.
Well, he may take issue with them but he doesn’t seem to actually refute them. And, wouldn’t some of the gist of Kerry’s accusations be supported by the Pulitzer-prize-winning reporting that I linked to the story on?
Okay, well it is fun to know what you consider “extreme” and “wacko” so we can judge for ourselves who is actually extreme and wacko…the labeler or the labelee.
A Pulitzer Prize is not an indication of truthful reporting, by any stretch of the imagination.
I’m glad that you are having fun. I’m rather dissapointed by all the extremists and the folks that buy into their propaganda. It’s bad for America (because they affect legislation).
Heavens, Wonder, why stop there? Someone like yourself, someone who takes the trouble to access the only truly unbiased sources for news and opinion, must be aware of the bold expose of Kerry’s direct supervision by the KGB. First Fonda, then Kerry, then Cronkite, its all there.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/pacepa200402260828.asp
I am surprised such an uncomplicated patriot as yourself is unaware! And you didnt even mention his plan to force Eagle Scouts into gay marriages! And if you add up the numbers for “John Heinz Kerry”, it comes to 665, which is close enough…
I agree which is why I am working to try to kick the extremists out of the White House and Congress.
Oh, okay, so anything that goes against our worldview must be untruthful. I see how this works now.
668…The neighbor of the beast! [By that standard, I guess Kerry is the guy across the street.] 