A caller to Bruce Jacobs, morning host on local radio station KFYI, said that she had a hate voicemail against President Bush.
The caller traced the call by pushing *69 on her phone and - LO and BEHOLD - the call originated from our local newspaper - The Arizona Republic.
Last I heard, newspapers were supposed to REPORT the news, not BE the news.
As I said earlier, You can't make this stuff up!
DR
11/01/2004
NYP the Water Carrier for OBL?
Is the New York Post carrying Osama's message?
Hey, Osama! Go back into the hole you crawled out of!
You and your goons are NOT going to scare the citizens of the United States like you did those in Spain.
There is plenty of information on the web about the Baran-Wallerstein theory that SOC-COMS will utilize Islamo-fascism to destroy America, and in Kerry’s laissez-faire, reliance on the U.N. approach, lies the answer as to why he was selected to fill the role of Manchurian Candidate.
You, OBL, do not understand the make-up of the American people. We might fight like cats and dogs, but when disaster strikes - we are one people.
Osama, you yanked this Tiger's tail one time too hard and you got the teeth...a word of warning...don't tempt fate again...the consequences - FOR YOU - won't be as favorable...
DR
Hey, Osama! Go back into the hole you crawled out of!
You and your goons are NOT going to scare the citizens of the United States like you did those in Spain.
There is plenty of information on the web about the Baran-Wallerstein theory that SOC-COMS will utilize Islamo-fascism to destroy America, and in Kerry’s laissez-faire, reliance on the U.N. approach, lies the answer as to why he was selected to fill the role of Manchurian Candidate.
You, OBL, do not understand the make-up of the American people. We might fight like cats and dogs, but when disaster strikes - we are one people.
Osama, you yanked this Tiger's tail one time too hard and you got the teeth...a word of warning...don't tempt fate again...the consequences - FOR YOU - won't be as favorable...
DR
Heinz Kerry's Brother Is A Maoist...
Teresa Heinz Kerry has a brother, Jose Ferreira that has been keeping a verrrry low profile and it turns out that he has a very interesting history.
According to the article in the Philadelphia Tribune Review:
Jose Ferreira surfaced in the article only as an unnamed "older brother who attended Cambridge."
Heinz Kerry's public comments regarding her older brother are scarce.
Ferreira briefly surfaced in a November 1974 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story on her thoughts on the political unrest transpiring at the time in her native Mozambique.
She was quoted in the article as saying she did not want the nation to be controlled by Maoists "because they're going to ruin African nationalism." She noted, however, that she did not mind Maoists in the government, and she mentioned that Ferreira had been a Maoist when he was younger.
Excuse me?!!??
Teresa Heinz Kerry "does not MIND having Maoists in government"???
WTF??
Just in case you are a little fuzzy on what being a Maoist means, (ahem! communist...) I have a link for you.
And for information on others in THK's family that are staying 'underground' during this election:
The Ferreiras aren't the only Heinz Kerry family members to have distanced themselves from the presidential campaign.
Heinz Kerry's first-born son, H. John Heinz IV, 37, operates a small Buddhist high school for troubled teens near his 163-acre farm near Philadelphia. He has declined all interview requests during the Kerry campaign.
You just can't make this stuff up!
DR
According to the article in the Philadelphia Tribune Review:
Jose Ferreira surfaced in the article only as an unnamed "older brother who attended Cambridge."
Heinz Kerry's public comments regarding her older brother are scarce.
Ferreira briefly surfaced in a November 1974 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story on her thoughts on the political unrest transpiring at the time in her native Mozambique.
She was quoted in the article as saying she did not want the nation to be controlled by Maoists "because they're going to ruin African nationalism." She noted, however, that she did not mind Maoists in the government, and she mentioned that Ferreira had been a Maoist when he was younger.
Excuse me?!!??
Teresa Heinz Kerry "does not MIND having Maoists in government"???
WTF??
Just in case you are a little fuzzy on what being a Maoist means, (ahem! communist...) I have a link for you.
And for information on others in THK's family that are staying 'underground' during this election:
The Ferreiras aren't the only Heinz Kerry family members to have distanced themselves from the presidential campaign.
Heinz Kerry's first-born son, H. John Heinz IV, 37, operates a small Buddhist high school for troubled teens near his 163-acre farm near Philadelphia. He has declined all interview requests during the Kerry campaign.
You just can't make this stuff up!
DR
10/31/2004
Choice? There IS No Choice!
A re-run, I know....but I really like this side-by-side comparison...
that's all for today....
DR
John Kerry, George Soros Wed
A little known fact is that John Kerry and George Soros were wed on May 23, 2004.
John Kerry was quoted as saying "George is one of the great financial minds in history. He could easily serve as a distinguished Treasury Secretary or as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Having him by my side to guide our domestic policy will free me up to lead the investigation that will allow us to arrest Osama bin Laden. The American people will be getting two presidents for the price of one."
In a prepared statement, Senator Kerry said: "I thank Teresa for her understanding and my heart goes out to her at this difficult time. However, I just find George five times more attractive."
The wedding announcements that went out earlier this year included information about the happy couple:
Through his office, Mr. Soros, a native of Hungary, suggested that the Bush administration's views of gay marriage reminded him of the Nazi and Communist regimes.
The wedding will be held at the deluxe Boston Harbor Hotel. A Rabbi, a priest and a minister will officiate.
The happy couple is registered at the Federal Election Commission.
DR
John Kerry was quoted as saying "George is one of the great financial minds in history. He could easily serve as a distinguished Treasury Secretary or as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Having him by my side to guide our domestic policy will free me up to lead the investigation that will allow us to arrest Osama bin Laden. The American people will be getting two presidents for the price of one."
In a prepared statement, Senator Kerry said: "I thank Teresa for her understanding and my heart goes out to her at this difficult time. However, I just find George five times more attractive."
The wedding announcements that went out earlier this year included information about the happy couple:
Through his office, Mr. Soros, a native of Hungary, suggested that the Bush administration's views of gay marriage reminded him of the Nazi and Communist regimes.
The wedding will be held at the deluxe Boston Harbor Hotel. A Rabbi, a priest and a minister will officiate.
The happy couple is registered at the Federal Election Commission.
DR
'Waffle House' Song Mocks Kerry's Flip-Flops
Aaron Sain, lead singer of the conservative country music band calledThe Right Brothers, has penned a new song about how "flip flops" on the issues by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry would affect the White House if he is elected president.
Watch the video...then forward it to everyone on your email list...HAR!
DR
Watch the video...then forward it to everyone on your email list...HAR!
DR
Osama bin Laden Threatens: John Kerry Takes a Poll...
Vice President Cheney stated today "The thing that I find amazing about it is that John Kerry's first response was to go conduct a poll," Cheney told supporters in Fort Dodge, Iowa. "He went into the field ... to find out what he should say about this tape of Osama bin Laden."
"It's as though he doesn't know what he believes until he has to go and check the polls, his finger in the air, to see which way the wind is blowing and then he'll make a decision," said the vice president, who offered no evidence to back up his claim. "
George Bush doesn't need a poll to know what he believes, especially about Osama bin Laden." "I don't think that's a man who is up to the task of being commander in chief," Cheney said of Kerry.
A spokesman for Kerry's campaign did not deny polling on the bin Laden videotape....
Hat tip: Matt Drudge
DR
President Bush is Tenacious and Efficient; Sen. John Kerry is Cautious and Conceited
Apparently President Bush also has “considerable intuitive abilities", according to handwriting expert Sheila Kurtz, who heads the Graphology Consulting Group in New York City.
This is a copy of a note written by Sen. John Kerry
to the late Sen. Patrick Moynihan in May 2000 used
for a handwriting analysis by Graphology Consulting Group.
This is a copy of a portion of a note written by
George W. Bush in 1999 while he was governor of
Texas used for a handwriting analysis by Graphology Consulting Group.
Don't know about you, but "tenacious" and "efficient" are descriptors that are more appealing to me for a Commander-in-Chief than "cautious" and "conceited".
DR
This is a copy of a note written by Sen. John Kerry
to the late Sen. Patrick Moynihan in May 2000 used
for a handwriting analysis by Graphology Consulting Group.
This is a copy of a portion of a note written by
George W. Bush in 1999 while he was governor of
Texas used for a handwriting analysis by Graphology Consulting Group.
Don't know about you, but "tenacious" and "efficient" are descriptors that are more appealing to me for a Commander-in-Chief than "cautious" and "conceited".
DR
Muppet-haired Mozambican for First Lady?
You may remember the name Colin McNikle. He's the reporter from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review who, right before the Democrat National Convention, when asking Teresa Heinz Kerry for clarification on her statement about people being "un-American", was told by THK to "Shove It!"
Mr. McNikle has a great column today about Teresa - "America Cannot Afford Terry Kerry"
He is dead on...it's a good read.
DR
Mr. McNikle has a great column today about Teresa - "America Cannot Afford Terry Kerry"
He is dead on...it's a good read.
DR
Heinz Papers Should Be Unsealed, Judge Rules
The New York Times is reporting that A judge has ordered that most court records from a 1994 lawsuit by Teresa Heinz Kerry and her sons regarding the airplane crash that killed Senator H. John Heinz III be made public.
While lawyers for the Heinz family and estate have appealed to the State Supreme Court to take the case....Judge Tressler said he had originally agreed to seal the records to minimize the danger of an unfair trial because of publicity about the case. However, the case was settled before trial.
He ruled that reasons given by Heinz family lawyers - which referred to the family's privacy and security and the fact that the records had been sealed for eight years - did not rise to that level.
While lawyers for the Heinz family and estate have appealed to the State Supreme Court to take the case....Judge Tressler said he had originally agreed to seal the records to minimize the danger of an unfair trial because of publicity about the case. However, the case was settled before trial.
He ruled that reasons given by Heinz family lawyers - which referred to the family's privacy and security and the fact that the records had been sealed for eight years - did not rise to that level.
Want to Know the Truth About Iraq?
Then read this article that appeared in the Los Angeles Times.
And go to this webpage to find out what the Iraqi people think about the U.N., the U.S. and how successful their new government is.
DR
And go to this webpage to find out what the Iraqi people think about the U.N., the U.S. and how successful their new government is.
DR
November 2nd is a Good Day to be a Democrat Who’s an American First.
Found this excellent piece by Tammy Bruce:
Like all of our presidents, George W. Bush is quintessentially an American. He’s a Cowboy. A Texan. He will never be mistaken for a Frenchman. He’s a Yalie. He’s a man of faith, a husband and father. He’s a man who has fought with and overcome addiction. He’s a man of strength and character.
And while he is also wrong on some issues, if I have to work harder on social issues, I want it to be against a man whom I can admire, who I know, despite our disagreements, honors me in his work to keep this nation free and great.
For those of you who are Democrats and liberals—and I know through my years as a leader in left wing causes, including feminist and gay activism—we all have gone through a sort of conditioning that makes dissent or difference a frightening prospect. Republicans and conservatives have been decidedly demonized in your circle—perhaps by your own friends and family.
Let me tell you this--voting for the President does not change who you are or what you stand for. I stand for the classical liberal concepts of personal liberty and individualism, and have spent a great deal of my adult life working for those causes. I have found that “Choice” and “Individualism” are only slogans if you never act on them. Sometimes being yourself means straying from the expected, standing apart from your crowd.
November 2nd is a good a day to be a Democrat who’s an American first.
Great job, Tammy.
DR
Like all of our presidents, George W. Bush is quintessentially an American. He’s a Cowboy. A Texan. He will never be mistaken for a Frenchman. He’s a Yalie. He’s a man of faith, a husband and father. He’s a man who has fought with and overcome addiction. He’s a man of strength and character.
And while he is also wrong on some issues, if I have to work harder on social issues, I want it to be against a man whom I can admire, who I know, despite our disagreements, honors me in his work to keep this nation free and great.
For those of you who are Democrats and liberals—and I know through my years as a leader in left wing causes, including feminist and gay activism—we all have gone through a sort of conditioning that makes dissent or difference a frightening prospect. Republicans and conservatives have been decidedly demonized in your circle—perhaps by your own friends and family.
Let me tell you this--voting for the President does not change who you are or what you stand for. I stand for the classical liberal concepts of personal liberty and individualism, and have spent a great deal of my adult life working for those causes. I have found that “Choice” and “Individualism” are only slogans if you never act on them. Sometimes being yourself means straying from the expected, standing apart from your crowd.
November 2nd is a good a day to be a Democrat who’s an American first.
Great job, Tammy.
DR
Bush 56% - Kerry 44%
at the Hip Hop Debates which states that it is "the biggest election poll ever taken"
go and cast your vote
go and cast your vote
John Kerry - Man of Conviction or Man of Convenience?
Sometimes I get the impression that John Kerry is the candidate with the ‘deer in the headlights’ look. I look at him and listen to his rhetoric and am struck by the fact that had not Howard Dean imploded during the primaries, it would be Dean that we would be listening to on a daily basis rather than Kerry.
It occurs to me that Kerry was actually thrust on the national stage with half-baked ideas, not one of them yet solidified as far as I can see, running for an office that he is ill-prepared to handle.
He has a PLAN. Kerry has a PLAN for everything – at least he tells us so. But he has yet to expand on any of those PLANS to give any of us an inkling of what he is PLANNING to do if he happens to be propelled into office by the millions of dollars that are being spent by the hate-mongering crowd that is supporting his campaign.
Mind you, the I-HATE-BUSH crowd supports Kerry’s campaign, not the man.
That could be Daffy Duck up there running against George W. Bush and the hate rhetoric would be just as loud, just as strong.
Running on yesterday's promises and last century's dreams...the Democratic Party has picked the perfect candidate.
Clueless, unable to stick to a point for more than 30 minutes, war-protestor, and communist sympathizer – yep that’s their candidate - John Kerry.
God Help America if this man is elected on Tuesday.
DR
It occurs to me that Kerry was actually thrust on the national stage with half-baked ideas, not one of them yet solidified as far as I can see, running for an office that he is ill-prepared to handle.
He has a PLAN. Kerry has a PLAN for everything – at least he tells us so. But he has yet to expand on any of those PLANS to give any of us an inkling of what he is PLANNING to do if he happens to be propelled into office by the millions of dollars that are being spent by the hate-mongering crowd that is supporting his campaign.
Mind you, the I-HATE-BUSH crowd supports Kerry’s campaign, not the man.
That could be Daffy Duck up there running against George W. Bush and the hate rhetoric would be just as loud, just as strong.
Running on yesterday's promises and last century's dreams...the Democratic Party has picked the perfect candidate.
Clueless, unable to stick to a point for more than 30 minutes, war-protestor, and communist sympathizer – yep that’s their candidate - John Kerry.
God Help America if this man is elected on Tuesday.
DR
Steyn on Kerry
Mark Steyn's new column "Justifications for backing Kerry fall flat" is a hilarious breakdown of the various 'supporters' of Kerry:
...my Sun-Times colleagues, looking for a man they -- or, at any rate, Jacques Chirac and Kofi Annan -- can mold...
...the Des Moines Register, arguing that he doesn't seem like a wimp and a loser if you put him in a room full of even bigger wimps and losers....
...Honestly, sighs the Virginian Pilot, he only comes over like a snooty windbag because he's so much smarter than us...
...You're right, says the Washington Post, he has a commitment problem, but we'll work that out after the wedding....
Steyn moves on to question the veracity of the Dems screeching argument about how inept Bush was to let the weapons 'disappear' (those weapons that were never there and that Bush LIED about, remember?):
My version of this story -- they were smuggled out to Syria pre-invasion -- fits the Bush view of the war. But Kerry's version of this story undermines the Kerry view of the war -- or, at any rate, the most recent Kerry view of the war. That's the best clue as to the resolve he'd show as President: He has no internal conviction of his own, and so his campaign has run on incoherent reflex oppositionism, as, indeed, his Senate career has -- if America had followed the positions advocated by John Kerry, there would have been no Reagan arms build-up, and the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact would have lingered on, and their clients in Grenada would have destabilized the rest of the Caribbean, and Latin America would not have been democratized, and Saddam Hussein would still be in power and still controlling Kuwait. Kerry's lovebirds at the Washington Post et al. are dreaming of a transformation in their unlovely swain that would be at odds not just with his last three decades but with his last three weeks.
Steyn finishes with a very strong reminder that the Democratic Party of today is nothing more than an empty shell of what existed during the FDR era:
The Dems got a full tank from FDR, a top-up in the Civil Rights era, and they've been running on fumes for 30 years. Their last star, Bill Clinton, has no legacy because, deft as he was, his Democratic Party had no purpose other than as a vehicle for promoting his own indispensability...
And he is right on. The hollow accusations resonate with uneducated voters. Which is, by the way, exactly how the Democrats would leave them - uneducated...unable to take care of themselves...completely dependent on the huge bureaucracy that is going to be built with the tax increases if they get their way.
DR
...my Sun-Times colleagues, looking for a man they -- or, at any rate, Jacques Chirac and Kofi Annan -- can mold...
...the Des Moines Register, arguing that he doesn't seem like a wimp and a loser if you put him in a room full of even bigger wimps and losers....
...Honestly, sighs the Virginian Pilot, he only comes over like a snooty windbag because he's so much smarter than us...
...You're right, says the Washington Post, he has a commitment problem, but we'll work that out after the wedding....
Steyn moves on to question the veracity of the Dems screeching argument about how inept Bush was to let the weapons 'disappear' (those weapons that were never there and that Bush LIED about, remember?):
My version of this story -- they were smuggled out to Syria pre-invasion -- fits the Bush view of the war. But Kerry's version of this story undermines the Kerry view of the war -- or, at any rate, the most recent Kerry view of the war. That's the best clue as to the resolve he'd show as President: He has no internal conviction of his own, and so his campaign has run on incoherent reflex oppositionism, as, indeed, his Senate career has -- if America had followed the positions advocated by John Kerry, there would have been no Reagan arms build-up, and the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact would have lingered on, and their clients in Grenada would have destabilized the rest of the Caribbean, and Latin America would not have been democratized, and Saddam Hussein would still be in power and still controlling Kuwait. Kerry's lovebirds at the Washington Post et al. are dreaming of a transformation in their unlovely swain that would be at odds not just with his last three decades but with his last three weeks.
Steyn finishes with a very strong reminder that the Democratic Party of today is nothing more than an empty shell of what existed during the FDR era:
The Dems got a full tank from FDR, a top-up in the Civil Rights era, and they've been running on fumes for 30 years. Their last star, Bill Clinton, has no legacy because, deft as he was, his Democratic Party had no purpose other than as a vehicle for promoting his own indispensability...
And he is right on. The hollow accusations resonate with uneducated voters. Which is, by the way, exactly how the Democrats would leave them - uneducated...unable to take care of themselves...completely dependent on the huge bureaucracy that is going to be built with the tax increases if they get their way.
DR
10/29/2004
Kerry's Questionable Military Discharge
Swift Boat Vets has a post about the circumstances surrounding John Kerry's Military Discharge:
October 29, 2004 -- Recommended reading: Kerry's Military Discharge. What's Kerry Hiding?, by Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson....
This is something that I covered on this blog a couple of weeks ago and I am glad it is finally beginning to pick up some steam.
Frankly, I am amazed that no one has bothered to look further into this matter. Lipscomb lays out a very logical basis for questioning the timing of Kerry's discharge along with the Form DD 215, "Correction to DD Form 214'", filed by John Kerry, which embellishes the original "Vietnam Service Medal" to "Vietnam Service Medal with 4 bronze stars". This has been challenged by many vets who claim that there is no such thing!
But the larger issue still remains the timing, which this post at Human Events Online details very well, quoting Thomas Lipscomb from the New York Sun and Geoff Metcalf at NewsMax.
Bottom line - John Forbes Kerry needs to sign Military Form 180. We deserve to know the truth.
DR
As I stated in my original post on this subject, I am not an expert on these matters, my commenting is limited to the facts as reported by those that are.
October 29, 2004 -- Recommended reading: Kerry's Military Discharge. What's Kerry Hiding?, by Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson....
This is something that I covered on this blog a couple of weeks ago and I am glad it is finally beginning to pick up some steam.
Frankly, I am amazed that no one has bothered to look further into this matter. Lipscomb lays out a very logical basis for questioning the timing of Kerry's discharge along with the Form DD 215, "Correction to DD Form 214'", filed by John Kerry, which embellishes the original "Vietnam Service Medal" to "Vietnam Service Medal with 4 bronze stars". This has been challenged by many vets who claim that there is no such thing!
But the larger issue still remains the timing, which this post at Human Events Online details very well, quoting Thomas Lipscomb from the New York Sun and Geoff Metcalf at NewsMax.
Bottom line - John Forbes Kerry needs to sign Military Form 180. We deserve to know the truth.
DR
As I stated in my original post on this subject, I am not an expert on these matters, my commenting is limited to the facts as reported by those that are.
And Now...The Rest of The Story....
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin says John Kerry has been gaining in the polls...."That's how God wants it to be," Harkin told a group of about 25 people at the Benton County Headquarters in Vinton on Thursday afternoon.
Yes - it is the SAME Tom Harkin that went with John Kerry to support communist Daniel Ortega from Nicaragua.....the SAME Tom Harkin that, along with John Kerry, failed to mention Ortega's plans, either to the State Department or to their colleagues in the Congress, before a majority in the House voted against aid for the freedom fighters.
Communist sympathizers...Kerry and Harkin.
What makes you think anything has changed?
DR
Yes - it is the SAME Tom Harkin that went with John Kerry to support communist Daniel Ortega from Nicaragua.....the SAME Tom Harkin that, along with John Kerry, failed to mention Ortega's plans, either to the State Department or to their colleagues in the Congress, before a majority in the House voted against aid for the freedom fighters.
Communist sympathizers...Kerry and Harkin.
What makes you think anything has changed?
DR
The Bolshevik in Kerry
From George Neumayr at The American Spectator:
John Kerry demands "tax fairness for Americans." This is his euphemism for fleecing Americans who pay the highest taxes. What he calls "tax fairness," Karl Marx called wealth redistribution.
"Tax fairness" for Kerry just means ripping off the rich and redistributing their wealth to Americans who don't even pay taxes. He says that he will raises taxes on families earning more than $200,000 a year but will cut taxes on the "middle class."
Kerry's "middle class tax cut" will amount to government subsidies for Americans not paying taxes. In his mind, a middle class tax cut is a government-subsidized job retraining program. Notice he never straightforwardly says that he will cut the middle class's income taxes but rather, "We're going to invest in our people again."
Kerry has always gravitated to the rhetoric of class warfare just as he has to crackpot world leaders who traffic in it. His support for "Father Aristide," the Marxist inciter of political killings Kerry tries to pass off as a benign priest, stems in part from Kerry's weakness for the class-warfare liberation theology the defrocked priest peddled.
John Kerry, Tom Harkin, Daniel Ortega
Kerry's limousine liberation theology led him into one of the most embarrassing moments of his early Senate career -- his disastrous Neville Chamberlain-style diplomacy with Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega. Shortly after becoming a Senator, Kerry took off for Nicaragua with Tom Harkin on a free-lancing fact-finding tour, the purpose of which was to stymie congressional support for the Contras by "finding" that the Sandinistas weren't such bad guys after all. After Kerry met with Ortega, he returned to Washington waving a promise from Ortega that the Communist leader would moderate his policies. "We believe this is a wonderful opening for a peaceful settlement without having to militarize the region," Kerry said. "The real issue is: Is this administration going to overthrow the government of the Sandinistas no matter what they do? This opportunity puts this to the test." The normally cautious Secretary of State George Shultz was so flabbergasted by Kerry's shilling for Ortega that he denounced Kerry publicly for "dealing with the communists" and letting himself be "used" by Ortega.
Kerry's diplomacy blew up in his face. As Kerry was reassuring his colleagues that Ortega wouldn't establish Soviet and Cuban bases in Nicaragua, Ortega (a few days after he met with Kerry) was flying to Moscow to arrange a $200 million transfer of Soviet monies to Nicaragua. Kerry's sales pitch for the Sandinistas -- "I see an enormous haughtiness in the United States trying to tell them what to do. Our economic squeeze on them is very sad. The whole population is suffering" -- worked in Congress. It voted against aid to the Contras, even as Ortega was collecting aid from his Soviet bosses.
This angered Republican senators enough that they wondered if Harkin and Kerry hadn't known about Ortega's impending trip to Moscow and just didn't tell their colleagues about it lest the information change the vote. Said one press report at the time: "Liberal freshman Senators John Kerry and Thomas Harkin made a much publicized trip to Nicaragua shortly before the May vote in Congress on U.S. aid for the anti-communist freedom fighters. Insiders say the two senators learned while in Managua that Nicaraguan ruler Daniel Ortega was planning a trip to Moscow to ask for more Soviet support for his communist government, yet the senators failed to mention Ortega's plans, either to the State Department or to their colleagues in the Congress, before a majority in the House voted against aid for the freedom fighters."
It was a revealing episode in Kerry's career. That he still talks about "liberation theology" -- as when castigating the Bush administration for its "ideological and theological hatred" of Aristide -- shows how deeply the culture of class-warfare rhetoric seeped into him. When Kerry calls for "tax fairness for Americans," it is that culture in him which is coming out.
John Kerry demands "tax fairness for Americans." This is his euphemism for fleecing Americans who pay the highest taxes. What he calls "tax fairness," Karl Marx called wealth redistribution.
"Tax fairness" for Kerry just means ripping off the rich and redistributing their wealth to Americans who don't even pay taxes. He says that he will raises taxes on families earning more than $200,000 a year but will cut taxes on the "middle class."
Kerry's "middle class tax cut" will amount to government subsidies for Americans not paying taxes. In his mind, a middle class tax cut is a government-subsidized job retraining program. Notice he never straightforwardly says that he will cut the middle class's income taxes but rather, "We're going to invest in our people again."
Kerry has always gravitated to the rhetoric of class warfare just as he has to crackpot world leaders who traffic in it. His support for "Father Aristide," the Marxist inciter of political killings Kerry tries to pass off as a benign priest, stems in part from Kerry's weakness for the class-warfare liberation theology the defrocked priest peddled.
John Kerry, Tom Harkin, Daniel Ortega
Kerry's limousine liberation theology led him into one of the most embarrassing moments of his early Senate career -- his disastrous Neville Chamberlain-style diplomacy with Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega. Shortly after becoming a Senator, Kerry took off for Nicaragua with Tom Harkin on a free-lancing fact-finding tour, the purpose of which was to stymie congressional support for the Contras by "finding" that the Sandinistas weren't such bad guys after all. After Kerry met with Ortega, he returned to Washington waving a promise from Ortega that the Communist leader would moderate his policies. "We believe this is a wonderful opening for a peaceful settlement without having to militarize the region," Kerry said. "The real issue is: Is this administration going to overthrow the government of the Sandinistas no matter what they do? This opportunity puts this to the test." The normally cautious Secretary of State George Shultz was so flabbergasted by Kerry's shilling for Ortega that he denounced Kerry publicly for "dealing with the communists" and letting himself be "used" by Ortega.
Kerry's diplomacy blew up in his face. As Kerry was reassuring his colleagues that Ortega wouldn't establish Soviet and Cuban bases in Nicaragua, Ortega (a few days after he met with Kerry) was flying to Moscow to arrange a $200 million transfer of Soviet monies to Nicaragua. Kerry's sales pitch for the Sandinistas -- "I see an enormous haughtiness in the United States trying to tell them what to do. Our economic squeeze on them is very sad. The whole population is suffering" -- worked in Congress. It voted against aid to the Contras, even as Ortega was collecting aid from his Soviet bosses.
This angered Republican senators enough that they wondered if Harkin and Kerry hadn't known about Ortega's impending trip to Moscow and just didn't tell their colleagues about it lest the information change the vote. Said one press report at the time: "Liberal freshman Senators John Kerry and Thomas Harkin made a much publicized trip to Nicaragua shortly before the May vote in Congress on U.S. aid for the anti-communist freedom fighters. Insiders say the two senators learned while in Managua that Nicaraguan ruler Daniel Ortega was planning a trip to Moscow to ask for more Soviet support for his communist government, yet the senators failed to mention Ortega's plans, either to the State Department or to their colleagues in the Congress, before a majority in the House voted against aid for the freedom fighters."
It was a revealing episode in Kerry's career. That he still talks about "liberation theology" -- as when castigating the Bush administration for its "ideological and theological hatred" of Aristide -- shows how deeply the culture of class-warfare rhetoric seeped into him. When Kerry calls for "tax fairness for Americans," it is that culture in him which is coming out.
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