Kerry to announce running mate via email

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John Kerry stated Friday that he will announce his choice for Vice President by email to members of JohnKerry.com and also on his campaign website.

According to the news, it looks like it's either going to be Edwards or Gephardt.

My guess is that it will be Edwards. Edwards has a lot of charisma, he's young, he's smart, he's likeable, he's a great Senator, so I don't see why it wouldn't be him.

I think John Kerry's chances of winning the election will be greater if he chooses Edwards. Just my personal opinion though.

No matter who he chooses, when the election rolls around I'm still voting for Bush.

Kat

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(Don't mind if I post here: From http://www.rfsafe.com/tributes/article-654--0-0.html)

February 14, 2004

Dallas, Texas

Dear Senator Kerry:

Since it has become clear that you will probably be the Democratic

nominee for President, I have spent a great deal of time researching your war record and your record as a professional politician. The reason is simple, you aspire to be the Commander in Chief who would lead my sons and their fellow soldiers in time of war. I simply wanted to know if you possess the necessary qualifications to be trusted in

that respect.

You see, I belong to a family of proud U.S. veterans. I was a Captain

in the Army Reserve, my father was a decorated Lieutenant in World War II; and I have four sons who have either served, or are currently serving in the military. The oldest is an Army Lieutenant still on active duty in Afghanistan after already being honored for his service in Iraq. The youngest is an E-4 with the military police. His National Guard unit just finished their second tour of active duty, including six months in Guantanamo Bay. My two other sons have served in the national guard and the navy.

In looking at your record I found myself comparing it not only to that

of my father and my sons, but to the people they served with. My father

served with the 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion in Europe. They landed on Utah Beach and fought for 317 straight days including the Cherbourg Peninsula, Aachen, the Hurtgen Forest, and the Battle of the Bulge

You earned a Silver Star in Vietnam for chasing down and finishing off

a wounded and retreating enemy soldier.

My father won a Bronze Star for single handedly charging and knocking

out a German machine gun nest that had his men pinned down.

You received three purple hearts for what appears to be three minor

scratches. In fact you only missed a combined total of two days of duty

for these wounds.

The men of my father's unit, the 87th, had to be admonished by their

commanding officer because: "It has been brought to our attention that

some men are covering up wounds and refusing medical attention for fear of being evacuated and permanently separated from this organization..." It was also a common problem for seriously wounded soldiers to go AWOL from hospitals in order to rejoin their units.

You used your three purple hearts to leave Vietnam early.

My oldest boy came home from Iraq with numerous commendations and then proceeded to volunteer to go to Afghanistan and from there back to Iraq again. My sons and father have never had anything but the highest regard and respect for their fellow soldiers.

Yet, you came home to publicly charge your fellow fighting men with

being war criminals and to urge their defeat by the enemy.

You even wrote a book that had a cover which mocked the heroism of the U.S. Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima

Our current crop of soldiers has a philosophy that no one gets left

behind; and they have practiced that from Somalia to the battlefields of the Middle East.

Yet as chairman of a Senate committee looking into allegations that

many of your fellow servicemen had been left behind as prisoners in Vietnam, you chose to defend the brutal Vietnamese regime.

You even went so far as to refer to the families of the POWs and MIAs

as Professional malcontents, conspiracy mongers, con artists, and

dime-store Rambos.

As a Senator you voted against the 1991 Gulf War, and have repeatedly

voted against funds to supply our troops with the best equipment, and against money to improve our intelligence capability.

I find this particularly ironic since as a Presidential candidate you

are highly critical of our pre-war intelligence in Iraq.

However, you did vote to authorize the President to go to war, but have

since proceeded to do everything you can to undermine the efforts of

our government and our troops to win.

Is this what our fighting men and women can expect of you if you are

their Commander in Chief? Will you gladly send them to war, only to then aid the enemy by undermining the morale of our troops and cutting off the weapons they need to win?

Our country is at war Senator, and as has been the case in every war

since the American Revolution, a member of my family is serving their country during the war. Now you want me to trust you to lead my sons in this fight.

Sorry Senator, but when I compare your record to those who have fought and died for this nation, and are currently fighting and dying, the answer is not just no, but Hell No!

Sincerely,

Michael Connelly

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(More on Kerry)

Letter from Ruth Matar (July 6, 2004) quoting below:-

"On the hand, John Kerry's second wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, is a very wealthy lady. She has put millions into her husband's campaign and has also been pouring many millions into radical left wing causes, including CAIR through the TIDES FOUNDATION. CAIR supports Hamas, some of whose members have been arrested for being terrorists. CAIR regularly imposes and demonizes American efforts to fight terrorism claiming, for instance, that Homeland Security measures are responsible for an undocumented surge in "hate crimes". Every few months some CAIR campus official is arrested for aiding and abetting terrorism!

The TIDES FOUNDATION is a major source of revenue for some of the most extreme groups on the Left. TIDES allows donors to anonymously contribute money to host causes; the donor simply makes the check out to TIDES and instructs the Foundation where to forward the money.

TIDES established the Iraq Peace Fund and the Peace Strategies Fund, to fund the anti-war movement. These projects fueled such hysterical protest organizations as Moveon.Org, the website that recently featured two separate commercials portraying George W. Bush as Adolph Hitler.

On January 26, 2004, on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, John Kerry made a campaign speech revealing how he really views the Arab-Israeli conflict. He criticized Bush for not paying enough attention to the Arab-Israeli conflict (I think, actually, that's a plus!) He pledged, that immediately upon his election, he would appoint Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter as special envoys to the Middle East. (To have two former Presidents, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, who have done great harm to Israel, working full time to pressure Israel to allow itself to be decimated through the realization of the "Road Map", would be catastrophic.) Make no mistake about it, John Kerry would work full-time to force the Road Map down Israel's throat.

In the same speech, Kerry also stated that the problem in the Arab-Israeli conflict is that Israel does not offer enough concessions to the PLO: "It is very difficult for Israel to negotiate because in Israel, there is nobody to negotiate to actually deliver".

Finally, in that January 26, 2004 speech in New Hampshire, Kerry blamed Israel for all the problems in the Middle East, and condemned the very existence of Jewish Communities in the Biblical Lands of Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip. Kerry urged that more U.S. aid be given to Arafat's Palestinian Authority."

(On Jimmy Carter)

http://michnews.com/artman/publish/article_4200.shtml

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Another must read link:-

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadA...le.asp?ID=12187