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Kerry Remarks to VFW 105th Annual Convention

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Posted by Steve 2004-08-18 12:39:56 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Mmmm... any word on how Sen. Kerry was recieved by the VFW audience? Judging by some of the things that some of the old Vietnam-era veterans were saying about him last week--- I was waiting for prescriptions to be filled at the BAMC pharmacy--- this might turn rather interesting.
(Wonder if security was frisking the VFW and confiscating rotten vetetables, eggs, etc?)

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2004-08-18 1:16:48 PM|| [http://www.sgtstryker.com] 2004-08-18 1:16:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I watched the speech on FoxNews - he got substantial applause on numerous occasions. I was disgusted with the audience. All hot air about how "I will do it differently, better, blah3" - with zero detail. And they applauded. I'm going to cancel my membership.

Posted by .com 2004-08-18 1:38:59 PM|| 2004-08-18 1:38:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 He's changed his tune since his acceptance speech. Surprise, surprise. .com, on the reaction of the crowd, it's easy to respond to platitudes like "veterans deserve better treatment." How did they react to criticisms of Bush and the redeployment plan?

Posted by Tibor 2004-08-18 1:43:39 PM|| 2004-08-18 1:43:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "And I will defend it as president. I will never hesitate to use force when it is required. Any attack will be met with a swift and certain response. Any imminent threat to our security will be dealt with swiftly and severely."

This a concern to me. I for one do not think this man is functioning on all cylinders. I also don't think he has a clue as to what his words really mean or how to act in the face of a threat. I'm not even sure Hanoi John could identify a threat. Besides all the rhetoric of the campaign it comes down to who do you feel comnfortable with in the Whitehouse. I for one am scared shitless about a Kerry Presidency.

Posted by Bill Nelson 2004-08-18 1:47:36 PM|| 2004-08-18 1:47:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Tibor - I recall he ridiculed Bush's redeployment regards Korea - using McCain as cover who said that the NorKs really do have nukes and a reduction of troops was something like irresponsible (don't remember exact words). As if a relatively tiny number of ground troops are a deterrent to a nuke attack.

Bill - Ditto, bro.

Posted by .com 2004-08-18 1:54:35 PM|| 2004-08-18 1:54:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I for one am scared shitless about a Kerry Presidency.

Ain't no thang. And all ya gotta do is show up at the polls in November.

Kerry has yet to present himself as anything other than an alternative to W. The left is riding high at the moment. But I really believe that W will get a super landslide in November.

THAT is when things will get skerry. The left will lose all control of their bodily functions.

Posted by badanov 2004-08-18 1:55:02 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-08-18 1:55:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 badanov - You have no idea (heh) how much I hope you're right... and I won't mind helping "mop up" if it happens, heh. I'll even provide escort duty - to the border of their choice.

Posted by .com 2004-08-18 1:56:57 PM|| 2004-08-18 1:56:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 This is simply his slither to the center, I hope enough people are smart enough to see it for what it is.
You would think 20 years of being an anti-military Senator are hard to conceal.

Posted by JerseyMike 2004-08-18 3:29:49 PM|| 2004-08-18 3:29:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 "I will never give any nation or international institution a veto over our national security."

You're lying to yourself and lying to us. If lightning strikes and you end up elected, you will prove yourself famous for all time as political whore to Europe's whims and the UN's favorite American-guilt-plagued whipping boy. That's the reason the "This Land" cartoon was so funny (the one with you on your knees in S&M garb below Kofi et al)-it RINGS TRUE.

Posted by jules 187 2004-08-18 3:40:06 PM|| 2004-08-18 3:40:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I recently attended a wedding and the reception was held at the local VFW hall. I was amused to see stickers of Jane Fonda's head with crosshairs affixed to the inside of the toilet, to assist with "targeting". I'd love to witness Sen. JoKe's reaction to seeing his friend's face in the sh*tcan, and I wonder if a male version of that sticker is in the works.

Posted by BH 2004-08-18 3:54:23 PM|| 2004-08-18 3:54:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 .com, I was reading this article about the speech:
"Large portions of the crowd applauded each of his many promises to protect veterans' benefits. Smaller portions vocally backed his points on Iraq and terrorism. Some veterans sat with arms folded, while others stood and clapped.
One man heckled Kerry, calling him a liar.
"I'll say it myself. He's a liar," said John Ranson of Fort Thomas, Ky., a 57-year-old Vietnam veteran who sat a few feet away from the heckler. He said Kerry had not supported U.S. troops as a senator or three decades ago as a returning Vietnam veteran who protested the war."

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2004-08-18 4:46:28 PM|| 2004-08-18 4:46:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Here's more (now up on Drudge): HTTP://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040818/480/ohdk10308181644">.

In case the link doesn't work, here's the url: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040818/480/ohdk10308181644

Posted by Tibor 2004-08-18 5:43:32 PM|| 2004-08-18 5:43:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Try this for a hint of "response" to Kerry's remarks. They should have mooned him while they were at it!

(Yahoo)

War veterans Jere Hill, middle, from Warham, Mass., and Robert Gibson, right, from Lexington, Ky., stand with their backs turned during Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's speech at the 105th Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention in Cincinnati on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2004.

Posted by BigEd 2004-08-18 5:55:07 PM|| 2004-08-18 5:55:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 thx BigEd - saved me having to figger out how to IMG SRC a link :-)

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-18 6:00:54 PM|| 2004-08-18 6:00:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Did Kerry bring up the part where he said he would cut and run?

Posted by Flamebait93268 2004-08-18 6:01:11 PM|| 2004-08-18 6:01:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 I for one am scared shitless about a Kerry Presidency.

No reason to be scared. On the other hand, I can see a reason to be laughing my head off at how gullible the voting public turned out to be, and how emasculated this nation will likely become as a result if he's voted in. If people are sold on the stupid Anybody-But-Bush mentality, fine, but don't even THINK about whining when the chickens come home to roost.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-08-18 6:03:24 PM|| 2004-08-18 6:03:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 My liberal boss (who told me she isn't a liberal!!) told me today that she couldn't understand why, as a veteran, I wasn't supporting a military man, meaning Kerry. Before I had a chance to respond, she told me not to believe that crazy bunch of people questioning his war record. I responded..."Then how come he's had to retract his Cambodia story?" at which she got angry and said he hadn't and that she knew the truth and it wasn't what those others were saying.

This is what we're dealing with...Kerry supporters are refusing to believe anything but what Kerry says. And that worries me.

I applaud those vets who turned their backs on him today.

Posted by AF Lady 2004-08-18 6:14:13 PM|| 2004-08-18 6:14:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Any imminent threat to our security will be dealt with swiftly and severely.

I picture a cartoon of State Department guys milling looking like UN "genocide definition" clowns. One possibly consulting a copy of Websters as they discuss the whether the threat is "imminent."

Posted by Super Hose 2004-08-18 7:20:10 PM|| 2004-08-18 7:20:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 I see Smugley Lurch-man and, I see those vets, and I say to those Vets. RIGHT-ON!

My late father was a WWII veteran. He said little, except for when he would have a problem with the malaria he contracted on Manus Island (S Pacific) in 1944-1945. He would actually shake. He had attacks into the mid 1960's.

So when Baron von Kerrhausen says he was in Cambodia at a date known only to God, and then hear all the explanations of how impossible it was, I get steamed.

Posted by BigEd 2004-08-18 7:36:41 PM|| 2004-08-18 7:36:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 I know he is probably scared shitless to come to any of the VFW's I've been to in my home state.

Too many of the old guys remember his traitorous comments in 71, and us guys from the sandbox wars know his votes against in 91 and "for then against" now.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-08-18 11:25:15 PM|| 2004-08-18 11:25:15 PM|| Front Page Top

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