To: American Spirit who wrote (8595 ) 3/19/2004 8:32:20 AM From: JakeStraw Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 81568 JOHN KERRY: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY III Communist North Korea Is Only Government On Record Supporting John Kerry _______________________________________________________________ “You don’t want to risk the reputation that you don’t just push the envelope, but you tear it here or there. If you do that, you get the Al Gore problem . . .” (Stuart Rothenberg On John Kerry As Quoted In Glen Johnson, “Doubt Cast On Kerry’s ‘PAC-Free’ Claim,” The Boston Globe, 6/12/03) KERRY SPOKE TO “FOREIGN LEADERS” WHO WANT HIM TO WIN ELECTION Kerry Claims Foreign Leaders Support Him. “‘I’ve met foreign leaders who can’t go out and say this publicly, but boy they look at you and say, “You’ve got to win this, you’ve got to beat this guy, we need a new policy,” things like that,’ he said.” (Patricia Wilson, “Kerry Predicts Character Attacks, Foreign Support,” Reuters, 3/8/04) PERHAPS HE WAS SPEAKING TO KIM JONG-IL? North Koreans Warm To Kerry Rhetoric. “In the past few weeks, speeches by the Massachusetts senator have been broadcast on Radio Pyongyang and reported in glowing terms by the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA), the official mouthpiece of Mr. Kim’s communist regime. … ‘Senator Kerry, who is seeking the presidential candidacy of the Democratic Party, sharply criticized President Bush, saying it was an ill-considered act to deny direct dialogue with North Korea,’ said the news agency. … Pyongyang’s friendly attitude towards Mr. Kerry contrasts with its strong anti-Bush rhetoric.” (James Harding and Andrew Ward, “North Korea Warms To Senator’s US Presidency Bid,” Financial Times, 3/5/04) North Korea Sees Kerry As More Susceptible To Extortion. “North Korea, whose state-run economy is in shambles, may be waiting to see if Kerry wins in hopes it can once again use its nuclear scare to extort more aid from the US and others.” (Editorial, “North Korea Waits For Kerry,” The Christian Science Monitor, 3/5/04) OR TO HIS FRENCH COUSIN? Former French Environment Minister Is Kerry’s First Cousin. “‘My cousin’s a nice guy, I’d like him to win,’ [Brice] Lalonde told AFP. ‘We saw each other six months ago and even then I was hoping he would be in the running and take the top job.’” (“Former French Minister Backs Cousin Kerry For US President,” Agence France Presse, 1/28/04) OR TO VARIOUS EUROPEAN NEWSPAPERS AND ENTERTAINERS? European Newspapers Favor Kerry. “Some of John Kerry’s most ardent fans are not only not Democrats – they’re not American. EUROPE WOULD VOTE FOR KERRY, blared a recent headline in a German newspaper – about the time an Italian news magazine was describing the Democratic front runner as the reincarnation of John F. Kennedy. The left-wing French daily Liberation announced that Kerry was ‘the kind of American we like.’” (Stryker McGuire, “JFK Goes Continental,” Newsweek, 2/23/04) British Band Coldplay Endorsed Kerry At Grammys. CHRIS MARTIN, MUSICIAN, COLDPLAY: “We’d like to dedicate this to Johnny Cash, and to John Kerry, who hopefully will be your president one day.” (CNN’s “Inside Politics,” 2/9/04) John Kerry’s Conspiracies Are Not New: