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John Kerry
By Matt Margolis | June 20, 2003
If people feel strongly enough about an issue, than whether or not I agree with them, I’ll respect their opinion… However, when a person changes his opinion on an issue rather drastically, you have to wonder.
Why does someone support something one day, and change his mind the next?
I guess we should be used to Democrats doing this. Al Gore and Joe Lieberman both have changed their views of certain issues upon their being chosen as Democratic running mates for a presidential candidate.
Well, I guess you still can’t teach an old Dem new tricks.
John Kerry, who, while neglecting his job as Senator from my state, said this past Wednesday that Bush, misled Americans regarding the threat Iraq posed to the United States. ”He misled every one of us,” Kerry said. ”That’s one reason why I’m running to be president of the United States.”
Expected… So yeah, whatever, they’re all saying that. Kerry went on, ”I will not let him off the hook throughout this campaign with respect to America’s credibility and credibility to me because if he lied he lied to me personally.”
Kerry’s base support will eat this stuff up, but it’s not going to work with most people.
However, the reason issue here is not just about what he said this week. Well, actually it is.
Because Kerry is lying. He lied to every single person in that audience, and considering the attention his word got, he’s lied to the entire United States.
Kerry doesn’t believe a word he said. All he believes is that he’s saying what he needs to say to get elected. For the power. He wants the power, and he’ll lie all along the way to get it.
It was reported on the Drudge Report that Kerry, is on record, on the Congressional Record, as having been absolutely for going in to Iraq.
I shall post the quotes here for your quick reference:
“It is not possible to overstate the ominous implications for the Middle East if Saddam were to develop and successfully militarize and deploy potent biological weapons. We can all imagine the consequences. Extremely small quantities of several known biological weapons have the capability to exterminate the entire population of cities the size of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. These could be delivered by ballistic missile, but they also could be delivered by much more pedestrian means; aerosol applicators on commercial trucks easily could suffice. If Saddam were to develop and then deploy usable atomic weapons, the same holds true.” (Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record, 11/9/97, pp. S12254 -S12255)
‘[Saddam Hussein] cannot be permitted to go unobserved and unimpeded toward his horrific objective of amassing a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. This is not a matter about which there should be any debate whatsoever in the Security Council, or, certainly, in this Nation.”(Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record, 11/9/97, pp. S12254 -S12255)
“In my judgment, the Security Council should authorize a strong U.N. military response that will materially damage, if not totally destroy, as much as possible of the suspected infrastructure for developing and manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, as well as key military command and control nodes. Saddam Hussein should pay a grave price, in a currency that he understands and values, for his unacceptable behavior. This should not be a strike consisting only of a handful of cruise missiles hitting isolated targets primarily of presumed symbolic value.” (Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record, 11/9/97, pp. S12254 -S12255)
“Were its willingness to serve in these respects to diminish or vanish because of the ability of Saddam to brandish these weapons, then the ability of the United Nations or remnants of the gulf war coalition, or even the United States acting alone, to confront and halt Iraqi aggression would be gravely damaged.” (Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record, 11/9/97, pp. S12254 -S12255)
“[W]hile we should always seek to take significant international actions on a multilateral rather than a unilateral basis whenever that is possible, if in the final analysis we face what we truly believe to be a grave threat to the well-being of our Nation or the entire world and it cannot be removed peacefully, we must have the courage to do what we believe is right and wise.” (Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record, 11/9/97, pp. S12254 -S12255)
So what happened between November 7, 1997, and today?
That’s an easy one: Bill Clinton, a Democrat, left office, and George W. Bush, a Republican took office.
It’s who’s in the White House, stupid!
Kerry has flip flopped. As George W. Bush enjoys high popularity for fighting the War on Terror, Kerry is trying to change history, by suggesting today that Iraq never posed a threat, Kerry has taken the War on Terror, and politicized it in his attempt to get into the White House.
He’s on record. Twice now. He’s made a complete 180. All in the name of his futile attempt to become President.
Sad. Very sad.
The past week has been an interesting one. Democrats are wanting Bush to make a “compromise” on judicial nominees to the Supreme Court in the name of bipartisanship – and here is Kerry, caught in a lie in the most extreme case of blind partisanship and dirty Democrat tricks.
Are we supposed to believe Kerry is the moral compass to lead this nation?
Take a seat Kerry, and get comfortable on the MattMargolis.com Liberal Idiots List.
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June 21st, 2003 at 12:40 am
What do you expect? This is freakin’ John Kerry we’re talking about. He’s a babbling idiot who looks like his hair’s been plastered on like a Ken doll.
June 21st, 2003 at 1:09 am
His hair probably the result of clashing Irish and Jewish genetics.
June 21st, 2003 at 2:16 pm
Are you scared?
Let’s compare millitary service records of Bush and Kerry.
June 21st, 2003 at 2:21 pm
“Are we supposed to believe Kerry is the moral compass to lead this nation?”
Matt’s post is based on quotes, no doubt. However, does he have irrefutable evidence that Kerry changed his view because Bush, a republican, now has the same view? No. Sure, its very likely that this is the case, but we don’t even have a date for his change of viewpoint, just an era, and its a hypothetical at that.
Back to the quote from Matt’s post though.
Good question. Have you asked yourself this about President Bush?
Our president’s children were busted for underage drinking. At the time, the children were not on their own. Therefore, their parents, one of which is our President, should have instilled in them the morals (let alone legalities) of underage drinking. Obviously, he didn’t. If you can’t get your children to be morally sound, how can you set the example for a nation? Don’t pull out the argument that since they were his daughters it was Laura’s responsibility either. What it boils down to is that the president and his daughter’s never had this conversation (that would be horrible), or his daughters didn’t listen and showed no respect for the law!
Think about it. As a child, you are a reflection on your parents. As long as you live under their roof, you are a reflection on how well your parents act as parents. Bush didn’t do such a good job in this sense on this particular issue.
Now, should morals be the primary factor in electing a president? No. I wouldn’t vote for someone with impecable morals if he wanted to drop a nuke on Russia as part of his foreign policy.
So Gore’s son got busted for speeding in Virginia during his campaign. That’s unfortunate (for Gore and his son, whose insurance probably skyrocketed). However, this unfortunate incident, while factored into a voting decision, doesn’t carry more weight than what Gore proposed on a more global scale. If Bradley had impecable morals but wanted to abolish welfare, I’d vote for Gore.
One more point in this moral dilemma. Here’s a hypothetical, but don’t tell me it wouldn’t play out this way.
A teacher’s child gets busted for drug posession. The community finds out about it, and the teacher’s reputation as a parent is ruined. Next, the community wants the parent out as a teacher.
You can’t impeach someone on morals (ask the Republicans that tried to impeach Clinton). They do set an example though, and if a Republican is going to comment on Kerry allegedly lying for his own gain, then he has to take the heat for Bush being a less-than-morally-acceptable parent.
June 21st, 2003 at 2:47 pm
Shaggy is doing a classic liberal argument. He is trying to judge a Republican on something he says you can’t judge a Democrat on. Obviously, Liberals don’t care about morals, otherwise they wouldn’t have stood behind Clinton.
You can’t judge a Parent by their children. This isn’t Happy Days anymore. Believe me, if my parents told me not to do something, in Kid language, that meant, “boy, that sounds like fun.” There are lots of screwed up kids out there with very fine parents. The fact is, more now than ever, Kids are not a reflection of their parents, but rather their friends. I don’t know about most people, but both my parents work, and today, most families can’t survive with only one parent in the workplace, so parenst are not with their kids al the time. So they spend their most impressionable years getting influenced by their friends, and last I checked, your parents don’t control who your friends are, half the time, they don’t any of your friends. You can’t blame a parent for trying to provide for their children by working full time jobs and also criticize them for not being full time parents. All you democrats would just love for everyone to be on welfare, sitting on their asses, milking money from harding people like myself and spend time with their children, instead of finding a job.
Ya’ll democrats need to realize that Bush is the most moral President we’ve had in 10 years. So his kids made mistakes, and I’d bet my life on the fact that the President and First Lady did have that talk with their children, but you can’t tell me that througout your entire life you never went against your parents’ wishes. Wake up and smell the Starbucks.
June 21st, 2003 at 5:10 pm
Shaggy,
Your criticism of the Bush twins is laughable. Did you ever go to college? Seriously, that is all we did besides study. We drank. We were underage. We had our friends buy for us. We lied.
In short, WE WERE IN COLLEGE! THIS IS WHAT NORMAL COLLEGE KIDS DO!
Do I want to raise my children to be drunken cheats and liars? No. But am I foolish enough to think that when they go to college, away from their parents and trying to be independant, that they are going to sip coolaid and eat cookies? Not in your life.
It is part of growing up. It is part of becoming an adult in college. You learn from the stupid things you do (assuming they are not REALLY stupid such as driving drunk etc.). You laugh at them later. Frankly, NBD. And, for the record, I felt the same about Clinton trying pot. As long as he was not smoking regularly, who really cares???
April 23rd, 2004 at 2:09 pm
I AM A VERY PROUD VETERAN OF OVER FOUR YEARS SERVICE AND THE MORE I HEAR AND INVESTIGATE I FOUND MANY REASONS NOT TO WANT JOHN KERRY AS OUR NEXT PRESIDENT OR EVEN FOR DOG CATCHER. I APOLGISE TO THE DOG CATCHERS OF OUR GREAT COUNTRY.WHEN I SAW THE COVER OF HIS 1971 BOOK SHOWING THE COVER OF HIS CO-HEARTS MOCKING THE GREAT MARINES AT IWO JIMA WITH FLAG UPSIDE DOWN AND THEM DISGRACING IT, IBLEW UP. I VOLENTIERED FOR THE MARINES ON DEC. 8TH, 1941 but was rejected because because i was missing four teeth. i went home at five a.m.
September 6th, 2004 at 6:10 pm
George W. Bush is the first president since Herbert Hoover to lose jobs during his term. Bush has produced a record half-trillion dollar in trade deficits, coupled with a massive fiscal deterioration. This has made the United States increasingly reliant on foreign creditors and more than 20 percent of the U.S. public debt is now being held by China and Japan; a total of over 40 percent outside the U.S. alone.
It’s clear the Bush administration is grasping at straws trying to discredit John Kerry. The economy will undoubtedly change over the coming years and those who don’t change with it, will become stagnant. And man, is there a stench emanating from the White House today!