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To: American Spirit who wrote (384236)	4/2/2003 12:41:33 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 769670

LOL! I guess the truth hurts! You're so in love with the image of Kerry that YOU'RE blind to the facts!

To: American Spirit who wrote (384236)	4/2/2003 12:41:51 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

congressional voting record is a pretty reliable source, right??? On Key Votes, Kerry Voted 100% Of The Time With Senator Kennedy In 2001, 1999, 1998, 1993, 1992, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, and 1985. Over the course of his Senate career, Kerry has sided with Senator Kennedy 94% of the time for key votes. (Roll Call Key Votes, oncongress.cq.com, December 2001)

To: American Spirit who wrote (384236)	4/2/2003 12:42:28 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 769670

*Kerry Has Voted Against A Balanced Budget Amendment At Least Five Times. Other fiscally irresponsible votes include at least three key votes against lowering overall spending.*

To: American Spirit who wrote (384236)	4/2/2003 12:43:18 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

*Kerry Voted For The Biggest Tax Increase In American History Under President Clinton.*

To: American Spirit who wrote (384236)	4/2/2003 12:44:00 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 769670

*Kerry Has Voted For At Least Seven Major Reductions In Defense And Military Spending Necessary For Our National Security.*

To: American Spirit who wrote (384236)	4/2/2003 12:46:22 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 769670

Sen. Kerry does not raise the issue of sweetheart deals that France has enjoyed with Iraq and its dictatorial regime. Sen. Kerry plays both sides of the fence and is losing credibility every time he switches sides on this issue. But again the mantra is "Whatever it takes to get applause to the people I'm in front of now!" Message 18733021

To: American Spirit who wrote (384236)	4/2/2003 12:50:41 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

John Kerry is a liar, AS. So it won't do to go to his website to spread more of his lies. Leave the cult and save yourself from so much grief.

To: American Spirit who wrote (384236)	4/2/2003 12:52:49 PM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 769670

*Kerry Voted At Least Five Times To Raid The Social Security Trust Fund.*

To: American Spirit who wrote (384236)	4/2/2003 12:55:32 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

John Kerry: Should This Man Be President? by Jon Keller "But there's a catch. Unfortunately for Kerry and his acolytes, chances are that the long, heavily scrutinized march to 2004 will unveil another side of John Kerry, one at odds with the stirring steadycam image of the former protester turned statesman: the apparent opportunistic hypocrite on display weeks later at a protest by laid-off Logan Airport airline workers. Union officials have rounded up several freshly fired employees to amplify labor's political message: that the Republican-sponsored bailout of the airline industry is a disgraceful misuse of funds that should be spent on benefits for their members. 'We need real help; we don't need tax breaks for the super-rich and for corporations,' says Rodney Ward, a laid-off US Airways flight attendant. The airlines, he says, 'are carrying out the cuts and restructuring that they wanted to do before September 11 and blaming it all on our national tragedy.' Next to Ward in front of the cameras, nodding vigorously and wrapping a reassuring arm around his shoulder, is Kerry. The Republican response to the economic fallout from the terrorist attacks is 'unconscionable,' he agrees, decrying 'the largest one-month increase in unemployment in the past 21 years in our country.' Then comes question time, and a reporter points out that Kerry voted for the airline bailout he has so briskly denounced, as well as for a huge subsidy for the insurance industry." bostonmagazine.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (384236)	4/2/2003 1:06:59 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

John Kerry, Another Traitor... Wannabe Presidential nominee, John Kerry (D-Taxachusetts), sure won't want this email that was forwarded to me by our Imperial Torturer, which is more than reason enough to do so anyway: I keep hearing Vietnam Veteran everytime this joker makes a speech. Below adds some perspective. As Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, considers a bid for the White House, Americans should know a few things about him that he might prefer go unmentioned - and I don't mean his $75 haircuts. When Mr. Kerry pontificated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day, a group of veterans turned their backs on him and walked away. They remembered Mr. Kerry as the anti-war activist who testified before Congress during the war, accusing veterans of being war criminals. The dust jacket of Mr. Kerry's pro-Hanoi book, "The New Soldier," features a photograph of his ragged band of radicals mocking the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, which depicts the flag-raising on Iwo Jima, with an upside-down American flag. Retired Gen. George S. Patton III charged that Mr. Kerry's actions as an anti-war activist had "given aid and comfort to the enemy," as had the actions of Ramsey Clark and Jane Fonda. Also, Mr. Kerry lied when he threw what he claimed were his war medals over the White House fence; he later admitted they weren't his. Now they are displayed on his office wall. Long after he changed sides in congressional hearings, Mr. Kerry lobbied for renewed trade relations with Hanoi. At the same time, his cousin C. Stewart Forbes, chief executive for Colliers International, assisted in brokering a $905 million deal to develop a deep-sea port at Vung Tau, Vietnam - an odd coincidence. As noted in the Inside Politics column of Nov. 14 (Nation), historian Douglas Brinkley is writing Mr. Kerry's biography. Hopefully, he'll include the senator's latest ignominious feat: preventing the Vietnam Human Rights Act (HR2833) from coming to a vote in the Senate, claiming human rights would deteriorate as a result. His actions sent a clear signal to Hanoi that Congress cares little about the human rights for which so many Americans fought and died. The State Department ranked Vietnam among the 10 regimes worldwide least tolerant of religious freedom. Recently, 354 churches of the Montagnards, a Christian ethnic minority, were forcibly disbanded, and by mid-October, more than 50 Christian pastors and elders had been arrested in Dak Lak province alone. On Oct. 29, the secret police executed three Montagnards by lethal injection simply for protesting religious repression. The communists are conducting a pogrom against the Montagnards, forcing Christians to drink a mixture of goat's blood and alcohol and renounce Christianity. Thousands have been killed or imprisoned or have just "disappeared." The Montagnards lost one-half of their adult male population fighting for the United States, and without them, there might be thousands more American names on that somber black granite wall at the Vietnam memorial. As Mr. Kerry contemplates a run for the presidency, people must remember that he has fought harder for Hanoi as an anti-war activist and a senator than he did against the Vietnamese communists while serving in the Navy in Vietnam. MICHAEL BENGE Foreign Service officer and former Vietnam POW (1968 to 1973) Washington