By Andrew L. Jaffee, February 13, 2004
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John Kerry: A Frankenstein Monster
By Andrew L. Jaffee, February 13, 2004 |
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My partner here at netWMD pointed out John Kerry’s striking resemblance to Frankenstein’s monster. Kerry is brooding, melancholy, and sounds awfully negative when he speaks. Superficial appearances aside, Senator Kerry scares me. His hypocrisy over special interest money and his anti-Vietnam war record make him unfit to be America’s president. Kerry has been claiming he will fight corporate special interests’ control over U.S. government. But the Washington Post revealed that Senator Kerry …has raised more money from paid lobbyists than any other senator over the past 15 years, federal records show. Kerry has raised about $225,000 from lobbyists for his current campaign. That is twice as much as any of the other Democratic candidates. The Washington Post added: Like President Bush, Kerry has also turned to a number of corporate officials and lobbyists to "bundle" contributions from smaller donors, often in sums of $50,000 or more, records provided by his campaign show. During Kerry’s career in the U.S. Senate, he has been involved in many issues where he had a clear conflict of interest. Records show that he took money from Johnny Chung, who later was convicted for making illegal contributions to Bill Clinton. Kerry intervened in regulations governing the U.S. Coast Guard in 1999. Kerry received $7,250 in “campaign contributions” from the law firm representing a company which profited from his intervention. The Post claims that Senator Kerry has “raked in millions from U.S. corporations.” John Kerry has continually berated President Bush for his connections to drug firms, energy companies, and health maintenance organizations (HMO’s). But Senator Kerry has received contributions of $34,000 from HMO’s, $27,000 from energy companies, and $18,500 from pharmaceutical firms. Kerry is in the top four senators in terms of the amount of lobbyist money they receive. The senator’s brother works for a lobbying firm that has contributed more to Kerry than any other entity. Do you think this is a coincidence? Kerry should look at his own behaviors before criticizing Bush’s campaign fund raising. 
Kerry has made much ado about his military service in Vietnam. He has also tried to make political hay out of Democratic claims that President Bush was “AWOL” in the early 1970’s – even though the Whitehouse has shown mountains of evidence that Bush never missed any National Guard service requirements. But Kerry isn’t mentioning his despicable record of anti-war activities after he returned home from Vietnam. It turns out that Kerry was cavorting with Jane Fonda in 1970 (see also here). Let’s not forget Fonda’s rabid support for the North Vietnamese communists. Is collaboration with Jane Fonda patriotism? Kerry’s anti-Vietnam war activities are disturbing. Kerry turned on his fellow soldiers after returning from Vietnam: Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 23, 1971, Kerry claimed that U.S. soldiers had “raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam.” Does Kerry mean that all U.S. soldiers participated in such alleged atrocities while serving in Vietnam? There are a lot of Vietnam vets that would contradict Kerry’s hyperbole. In the early 1970’s Kerry got very cozy with extreme leftist (communist) groups like the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW): The communist Daily World delightedly published photos of him speaking to demonstrators and boasted that the marchers displayed a banner depicting a portrait of Communist Party leader Angela Davis, on record stating, “I am dedicated to the overthrow of your system of government and your society,” the New American recalled in May 2003. Kerry went from fighting the North Vietnamese as a soldier to supporting their communist agenda as a senator: As chairman of the Select Senate Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, created in 1991 to investigate reports that U.S. prisoners of war and soldiers designated missing in action were still alive in Vietnam, Kerry badgered the panel into voting that no American servicemen remained in Vietnam. In one bizarre incident, Kerry protested the Vietnam war by joining with a group of veterans in throwing their war medals over a fence near the U.S. Capitol. But it turned out later that he secretly kept his own medals and threw away someone elses!?!?!?! How does this show integrity? Where are his medals now? They are hanging in his office. All these revelations about his conversion from a soldier into an anti-warrior have alienated veteran’s groups. One vet, Joe Repya, was quoted recently in USA Today, "Nobody says he wasn't brave when he was in Vietnam," said Repya, co-chairman of Veterans for Bush in Minnesota. "But once he came home, he disavowed his oath as an officer and he gave aid and comfort to our enemy by his anti-war stance. The North Vietnamese said the anti-war movement helped prolong the war, where they could get a better position" at peace talks to end the war. Kerry’s actions have so estranged vets that a group called Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry has been set up. What do I see in John Kerry? I see a man not typical in his involvement with Washington special interests, but atypical in big money’s connections to him. I see a man who went from being a soldier to turning on his own comrades in arms – even possibly doing harm to them. What kind of person throws someone else's medals away while keeping his own? Is this a man with moral conviction? What kind of a person goes from fighting communism to commiserating with communists? Either Kerry is completely ignorant of communism’s bloody legacy, or he's gullible, or he's naive beyond comparison. While I may not agree with President Bush 100%, at least I'm pretty sure of where he stands. Kerry has no honor and no moral center. He is not fit to be president of the United States. More coverage on John Kerry and John Edwards:
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