Kerry calls Bush 'greatest divider'

[J-10]

Kerry blames Bush for partisanship in Washington
Democrat faults GOP for Senate vote
Wednesday, June 23, 2004 Posted: 7:24 PM EDT (2324 GMT)

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Democrat John Kerry criticized Republicans on Wednesday for denying him a chance to cast a Senate vote, blaming a partisan culture created by President Bush and calling his rival "the greatest divider as a president in the modern history of this country."

As he returned to the campaign trail after a one-day interruption for Senate business, the four-term Massachusetts lawmaker made it clear that he would try to make the political maneuvering in the Senate an issue in his presidential bid.

Kerry told donors at a $2 million breakfast fund-raiser and later in a speech to union workers that he canceled all his campaign events Tuesday to return to Washington to vote for more spending on veterans' health care.

"But oh, no," Kerry said at the fund-raiser. "Oh, no. Not in this Senate, not with these people. Once again, it's my way or the highway, shut the door, lock the people out, don't let them take part in the democracy, don't respect the institution. Don't show the common courtesies that actually bring people together to find the common ground. So they found a way all day to twiddle their thumbs, do very little, attend a reception at the White House, but not let John Kerry vote.

"That's the way they play," Kerry continued. "That's what's at stake in this race. George Bush talked about being a uniter, not a divider. But he's been the greatest divider as a president in the modern history of this country. And we need to change."

Bush spokesman Steve Schmidt said Kerry's lashing out at Bush for being denied an opportunity to vote is "baseless" when Kerry has been absent for more than 80 percent of the votes this year, including others to improve veterans benefits and financially support the troops in Iraq.

Bob Stevenson, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, dismissed Kerry's complaints.

"This isn't about courtesy. This is about commitment. We were here hoping to go to a vote on that amendment if we could get a commitment (from Democrats) for final passage" of the underlying defense bill, he said. "We were working on that when John Kerry left town."

Several Republicans, speaking on condition of anonymity, said GOP senators were in no mood to rearrange the Senate's schedule on Tuesday to accommodate the Democratic presidential contender. Meeting at their weekly lunch, several Republican senators said the GOP, as the majority party, should not go out of its way to assist Kerry.

The issue also came up on the Senate floor Tuesday, when Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota said Frist had personally told him "that he didn't want to accord Sen. Kerry the opportunity to vote today knowing, of course, Sen. Kerry was here today."

As he travels the country campaigning for president, Kerry rarely is in Washington to vote, but he wanted to cast a vote for veterans, a Republican-leaning group that he is targeting in his tight race against Bush.

Republicans were eager to deny Kerry the moment he sought and delayed the vote. But they may have given Kerry a chance to fault the GOP for playing politics with veterans and remind voters of his own service to the country.

Speaking earlier to the fund-raiser that brought in $1 million for Kerry's campaign and $1 million for the Democratic National Committee, the Democrat said he learned when he returned from fighting in Vietnam what happens when a war loses the people's support.

"I came back to a nation that was indifferent, if not divided over that, certainly indifferent about the role of the soldiers who were quickly cast aside as America confused the war with the warriors, something that I would never, ever commit again," Kerry said to applause from his supporters. "Which is why I felt so strongly about that issue of health care yesterday."

Kerry canceled a day of campaigning in the swing state of New Mexico to wait for the Senate vote that never happened. But he could use his move as cover for missing future votes -- then he can claim that even when he moved heaven and earth to get to the Senate, the Republicans wouldn't let him participate.

"These people are so petty, so sad, so political, that all they could do is spend the whole day finding a way not to let John Kerry vote," Kerry said in a speech to the Service Employees International Union.
CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/23/kerry.ap/index.html)

[Trigger]

Who f*cking cares?

[memphiz]

http://img23.photobucket.com/albums/v70/memphiz/bushkerrykiss.gif
:D

[SeanAshi]

Add Michael Moore and its perfect.

[usa320]

usa320 calls kerry "The Greatest cocksucking moron".

[OB Kenobi]

usa320 calls kerry "The Greatest cocksucking moron".

Don't talk about a decorated veteran, senator, and presidential candidate of the United States like that. What are you, a terrorist lover or something?

[Sayeret]

I don't care what John Kerry says anymore, he's proven to me he was an ass when he compared Iraq to Vietnam.

[budanski]

Don't talk about a decorated veteran, senator, and presidential candidate of the United States like that. What are you, a terrorist lover or something?

Havent stopped you guys from talking **** about the president/commander-in-chief. :roll:

[Vance]

usa320 calls kerry "The Greatest cocksucking moron".

Don't talk about a decorated veteran, senator, and presidential candidate of the United States like that. What are you, a terrorist lover or something?
Lets see..Bush was all of those, except a senator. He was a Governor. Oh yeah, and he was also ELECTED President.

[jizzmonkey]

its a pretty simple concept, you have to show up to work to get paid!


No-Show Senator Kerry Takes Home Full Senate Paycheck
Jonathan M. Stein
Friday, June 18, 2004
John Kerry, the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for President of the United States, has been taking advantage of American taxpayers – and he should be ashamed of himself.


Title 2, Section 39, of the United States Code clearly states that “[t]he Secretary of the Senate ... shall deduct from the [salary] of each Member ... the amount of his salary for each day that he has been absent from the Senate ... unless such Member ... assigns as the reason for such absence the sickness of himself or of some member of his family."

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The plain and unambiguous meaning of this statute is that a Senator who misses work doesn’t get paid – just like ordinary Americans. Unfortunately, the Secretary of the Senate, Ms. Emily Reynolds, has improperly, and inappropriately, declined to carry out her statutory duty – i.e. to dock the pay of Senators who miss work. When pressed, Ms. Reynolds explained, in a response to a letter by David Keene of the Carmen Group, that since her predecessors in the position failed to carry out the law, she won’t either. This reasoning is absurd – and unlawful.

An officer of the Senate is bound by the law as it applies to that officer. When the law states that an officer of the Senate “shall” do something, that officer is bound to carry out the mandate of the law. If individuals were free to ignore the law as they pleased, our society would fall apart. The Secretary of the Senate is no exception – she is not above the law. Her failure to carry out the mandate of Title 2, Section 39 is a clear violation of federal law. However, ultimate culpability does not end with Ms. Reynolds.

Ignorance of the law, in American society, is never a valid defense to the commission of an unlawful act – thus, all Americans are charged with knowledge of the law. Lawyers, who are, ideally, learned in the law, should be held to a higher standard; though it sounds like an oxymoron, they are indeed held to a standard of lawyers’ ethics.

A United States Senator, charged with promulgating the law, and especially a Senator who is a lawyer, thus, must be held to the highest standard of legal and ethical conduct. John Kerry is both a Senator and a lawyer. As such, Senator Kerry is charged with knowledge of the law and must be held to the highest standard of legal and ethical conduct. In this respect, Kerry is a “miserable failure.”

John Kerry is charged with knowing that the Secretary of the Senate is to dock his pay when he fails to show up for work – and that there is no exception in the law for campaign activities. Thus, any payment made to a Senator in violation of Title 2, Section 39 is an illegal payment of funds from the U.S. Treasury and, legally speaking, theft of taxpayer money – John Kerry is presumed to know that these payments are illegal. Therefore, by knowingly accepting these illegal payments, Senator Kerry himself is breaking the law.

While, of course, this rationale applies to all Senators, John Kerry warrants special condemnation: Senator Kerry is running for President and he has the most dismal attendance record in the Senate; Kerry has been absent, without valid excuse, 87 percent of the time this session! Ergo, John Kerry is the most flagrant offender – and “everyone is doing it” is not a reasonable excuse. Further, an ordinary American who is absent from their job 87 percent of the time wouldn’t merely be docked pay – that person would be fired!

In the interest of restoring the rule of law, I have personally filed a formal ethics complaint against both Senator Kerry and the Secretary of the Senate with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, which has jurisdiction over this matter. It is quite sad that it takes the efforts of a mere law student to force a candidate for the Presidency to obey the law that, if successful, he will be sworn to uphold himself.

This matter draws yet another bright line between Senator Kerry and President Bush. When then-Governor Bush ran for President, he declined to accept his salary, as Governor, when he needed to campaign full time – even though Texas law did not require him to do so. On the other hand, though Unites States law requires Kerry not to accept his salary when he campaigns full time and cannot be present in the Senate, Kerry has opted to accept his salary illegally.

Jonathan Stein is on staff at the Hofstra Law Review and has been published in the Washington Times, Brown Daily Herald, NewsMax.com and The Committee for Justice.


ahhhhhaaaa!!

Suck a fat babies **** John Kerry!!

log on to www.ihatejohnkerry.net

[budanski]

Btw, Kenobi forgot to mention Kerry's 1971 Senate testimony characterizing his very own "brothers" as blood-thirsty murderers and habitual war criminals. Fast forward 2004, did you guys know that he served in Vietnam? :roll:

[n4292936]

usa320 calls kerry "The Greatest cocksucking moron".

Don't talk about a decorated veteran, senator, and presidential candidate of the United States like that. What are you, a terrorist lover or something?
Lets see..Bush was all of those, except a senator. He was a Governor. Oh yeah, and he was also ELECTED President.

whoa, calling Bush a decorated war veteran is a bit of a stretch, dont you think.

[Vance]

usa320 calls kerry "The Greatest cocksucking moron".

Don't talk about a decorated veteran, senator, and presidential candidate of the United States like that. What are you, a terrorist lover or something?
Lets see..Bush was all of those, except a senator. He was a Governor. Oh yeah, and he was also ELECTED President.

whoa, calling Bush a decorated war veteran is a bit of a stretch, dont you think.
He had medals, didn't he.

[jizzmonkey]

usa320 calls kerry "The Greatest cocksucking moron".

Don't talk about a decorated veteran, senator, and presidential candidate of the United States like that. What are you, a terrorist lover or something?
Lets see..Bush was all of those, except a senator. He was a Governor. Oh yeah, and he was also ELECTED President.

whoa, calling Bush a decorated war veteran is a bit of a stretch, dont you think.

O.K ther buddy, lets not give Hanoi-John more credit than his coward-ass deserves!

Kerry 'Flips Off' Vietnam Vet

Former Congressman John Leboutillier reports on a Memorial Day confrontation between Sen. John Kerry and a fellow Vietnam veteran:

Democratic senator - and certain presidential nominee - John F. Kerry gave the middle finger to a Vietnam veteran at the Vietnam Memorial Wall on Memorial Day morning, NewsMax.com has learned.

Ted Sampley, a former Green Beret who served two full tours in Vietnam, spotted Kerry and his Secret Service detail at about 9:00 a.m. Monday morning at the Wall. Sampley walked up to Kerry, extended his hand and said, "Senator, I am Ted Sampley, the head of Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, and I am here to escort you away from the Wall because you do not belong here."

At that point a Secret Service officer told Sampley to back away from Kerry. Sampley moved about 6 feet away and opened his jacket to reveal a HANOI JOHN T-shirt.

Kerry then began talking to a group of schoolchildren. Sampley then showed the T-shirt to the children and said, "Kerry does not belong at the Wall because he betrayed the brave soldiers who fought in Vietnam."

Just then Kerry - in front of the school children, other visitors and Secret Service agents - brazenly 'flashed the bird' at Sampley and then yelled out to everyone, "Sampley is a felon!"

Kerry was referring to an incident 12 years ago when Sampley confronted Sen. John McCain's chief aide, Mark Salter, in a Senate stairwell after McCain repeatedly offended POW families at a Senate POW hearing. Sampley, whose father-in-law at that time was MIA in Laos, followed Salter into the stairwell and, when they emerged, Salter had a bloody lip and a broken nose.

Sampley's group, Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, has garnered huge national attention and has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post and on MSNBC's "Scarborough Country." Tens of thousands of Vietnam vets have registered their opposition to Kerry through Sampley's group.

Clearly Sampley has gotten under Kerry's skin once again.


Editor's note:


Breaking: The Real Story About John Kerry`s Vietnam Record – Click Here!

Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Sen. John McCain


2004 Elections
Sen. John Kerry

[n4292936]

I really dont know enough about Kerry's war record to comment on it, but the accounts that I am aware of have suggested that while in service he wasnt a coward. Im not suggesting that GWB is, but I dont think he's a decorated war veteran in the same sense that Kerry is.

[jizzmonkey]

I hate to say it, but at this point...
John Kerry is an oportunistic piece of **** whom I have no respect for even as a"decorated veteran",

but he will more than likely win the upcoming election, not on character but the simple fact that he"isnt George W.", thats all he needs.....its depressing!

[OB Kenobi]

usa320 calls kerry "The Greatest cocksucking moron".

Don't talk about a decorated veteran, senator, and presidential candidate of the United States like that. What are you, a terrorist lover or something?
Lets see..Bush was all of those, except a senator. He was a Governor. Oh yeah, and he was also ELECTED President.

Bush was a decorated veteran? Maybe of the cheerleading squad.

http://www.funnycelebpics.com/items/39.gif

A spoiled rich boy who hasn't worked an honest day in his life, that's what he is. His daddy paid his way through everything. Bush is the male version of Paris Hilton, only dumber.

Bought him a degree, got him out of the national guard, paid off his drunk driving and cocaine convictions, bought him a baseball team, an oil company... and stole the election for him. All of which Bush screwed up anyway.

I don't think Kerry is a great alternative, but Bush is as bad as they get. A Washington insider crook who plays up this image like he's a just a patriotic "good ol' boy" trying to "do the right thing." Bull****! I'd even consider voting for another Republican over Kerry, just as long as they're not up to their necks in dirty deals.

Patriots don't make multi-billion $$$ deals with Saudi sheiks, they don't sell out US jobs to sweat shops overseas, they don't import hordes of illegal aliens for cheap labor, they don't give the rich tax breaks while embezzling our taxes on behalf of corporate crooks, and they don't lie to the American people about why we're at war.

[jizzmonkey]

usa320 calls kerry "The Greatest cocksucking moron".

Don't talk about a decorated veteran, senator, and presidential candidate of the United States like that. What are you, a terrorist lover or something?
Lets see..Bush was all of those, except a senator. He was a Governor. Oh yeah, and he was also ELECTED President.

Bush was a decorated veteran? Maybe of the cheerleading squad.

http://www.funnycelebpics.com/items/39.gif

A spoiled rich boy who hasn't worked an honest day in his life, that's what he is. His daddy paid his way through everything. Bush is the male version of Paris Hilton, only dumber.

Bought him a degree, got him out of the national guard, paid off his drunk driving and cocaine convictions, bought him a baseball team, an oil company... and stole the election for him. All of which Bush screwed up anyway.

I don't think Kerry is a great alternative, but Bush is as bad as they get. A Washington insider crook who plays up this image like he's a just a patriotic "good ol' boy" trying to "do the right thing." Bull****! I'd even consider voting for another Republican over Kerry, just as long as they're not up to their necks in dirty deals.

Patriots don't make multi-billion $$$ deals with Saudi sheiks, they don't sell out US jobs to sweat shops overseas, they don't import hordes of illegal aliens for cheap labor, they don't give the rich tax breaks while embezzling our taxes on behalf of corporate crooks, and they don't lie to the American people about why we're at war.

why dont you and michael "i'm a narcisist" Moore go suck eachothers ****s

[chauncy republicans]

usa320 calls kerry "The Greatest cocksucking moron".

Don't talk about a decorated veteran, senator, and presidential candidate of the United States like that. What are you, a terrorist lover or something?
Lets see..Bush was all of those, except a senator. He was a Governor. Oh yeah, and he was also ELECTED President.

Bush was a decorated veteran? Maybe of the cheerleading squad.

http://www.funnycelebpics.com/items/39.gif

A spoiled rich boy who hasn't worked an honest day in his life, that's what he is. His daddy paid his way through everything. Bush is the male version of Paris Hilton, only dumber.

Bought him a degree, got him out of the national guard, paid off his drunk driving and cocaine convictions, bought him a baseball team, an oil company... and stole the election for him. All of which Bush screwed up anyway.

I don't think Kerry is a great alternative, but Bush is as bad as they get. A Washington insider crook who plays up this image like he's a just a patriotic "good ol' boy" trying to "do the right thing." Bull****! I'd even consider voting for another Republican over Kerry, just as long as they're not up to their necks in dirty deals.

Patriots don't make multi-billion $$$ deals with Saudi sheiks, they don't sell out US jobs to sweat shops overseas, they don't import hordes of illegal aliens for cheap labor, they don't give the rich tax breaks while embezzling our taxes on behalf of corporate crooks, and they don't lie to the American people about why we're at war.

why dont you and michael "i'm a narcisist" Moore go suck eachothers ****s
Oh nooo....O.B. Kenobe slays another traitorous wanna-be jedi, who will be next!??

[Fargin]

http://img23.photobucket.com/albums/v70/memphiz/bushkerrykiss.gif
:D

Am I the only one getting slightly turned on, in a non-political way?

[Secret Squirrel]

usa320 calls kerry "The Greatest cocksucking moron".

Don't talk about a decorated veteran, senator, and presidential candidate of the United States like that. What are you, a terrorist lover or something?
Lets see..Bush was all of those, except a senator. He was a Governor. Oh yeah, and he was also ELECTED President.

whoa, calling Bush a decorated war veteran is a bit of a stretch, dont you think.

O.K ther buddy, lets not give Hanoi-John more credit than his coward-ass deserves!

Kerry 'Flips Off' Vietnam Vet

Former Congressman John Leboutillier reports on a Memorial Day confrontation between Sen. John Kerry and a fellow Vietnam veteran:

Democratic senator - and certain presidential nominee - John F. Kerry gave the middle finger to a Vietnam veteran at the Vietnam Memorial Wall on Memorial Day morning, NewsMax.com has learned.

Ted Sampley, a former Green Beret who served two full tours in Vietnam, spotted Kerry and his Secret Service detail at about 9:00 a.m. Monday morning at the Wall. Sampley walked up to Kerry, extended his hand and said, "Senator, I am Ted Sampley, the head of Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, and I am here to escort you away from the Wall because you do not belong here."

At that point a Secret Service officer told Sampley to back away from Kerry. Sampley moved about 6 feet away and opened his jacket to reveal a HANOI JOHN T-shirt.

Kerry then began talking to a group of schoolchildren. Sampley then showed the T-shirt to the children and said, "Kerry does not belong at the Wall because he betrayed the brave soldiers who fought in Vietnam."

Just then Kerry - in front of the school children, other visitors and Secret Service agents - brazenly 'flashed the bird' at Sampley and then yelled out to everyone, "Sampley is a felon!"

Kerry was referring to an incident 12 years ago when Sampley confronted Sen. John McCain's chief aide, Mark Salter, in a Senate stairwell after McCain repeatedly offended POW families at a Senate POW hearing. Sampley, whose father-in-law at that time was MIA in Laos, followed Salter into the stairwell and, when they emerged, Salter had a bloody lip and a broken nose.

Sampley's group, Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, has garnered huge national attention and has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post and on MSNBC's "Scarborough Country." Tens of thousands of Vietnam vets have registered their opposition to Kerry through Sampley's group.

Clearly Sampley has gotten under Kerry's skin once again.


Editor's note:


Breaking: The Real Story About John Kerry`s Vietnam Record – Click Here!

Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Sen. John McCain


2004 Elections
Sen. John Kerry

Newsmax strikes again! Everytime i see someone post something from them, i think of Godzilla stomping through a city and everyone running away shouting "newsmax! newsmax!" Of course in the movie, people are scared, whereas in this case people are amused that some people believe what comes from newsmax. woot

[Trigger]

usa320 calls kerry "The Greatest cocksucking moron".

Don't talk about a decorated veteran, senator, and presidential candidate of the United States like that. What are you, a terrorist lover or something?
Lets see..Bush was all of those, except a senator. He was a Governor. Oh yeah, and he was also ELECTED President.

Bush was a decorated veteran? Maybe of the cheerleading squad.

http://www.funnycelebpics.com/items/39.gif

A spoiled rich boy who hasn't worked an honest day in his life, that's what he is. His daddy paid his way through everything. Bush is the male version of Paris Hilton, only dumber.

Bought him a degree, got him out of the national guard, paid off his drunk driving and cocaine convictions, bought him a baseball team, an oil company... and stole the election for him. All of which Bush screwed up anyway.

I don't think Kerry is a great alternative, but Bush is as bad as they get. A Washington insider crook who plays up this image like he's a just a patriotic "good ol' boy" trying to "do the right thing." Bull****! I'd even consider voting for another Republican over Kerry, just as long as they're not up to their necks in dirty deals.

Patriots don't make multi-billion $$$ deals with Saudi sheiks, they don't sell out US jobs to sweat shops overseas, they don't import hordes of illegal aliens for cheap labor, they don't give the rich tax breaks while embezzling our taxes on behalf of corporate crooks, and they don't lie to the American people about why we're at war.

why dont you and michael "i'm a narcisist" Moore go suck eachothers ****s
Oh nooo....O.B. Kenobe slays another traitorous wanna-be jedi, who will be next!??
rofl
puh-leeeeze!
Yeah, all that re-re-heated propaganda really slayed us. rofl
We died laughing.
It doesn't take much to entertain chauncy.
Little things for little minds I suppose...

[usa320]

OB Ken****i can go suck osama's ****...

[Sir Zach of R.]

I think it got shot off in the cross-fire. rofl

[Black Dots]

Patriots don't make multi-billion $$$ deals with Saudi sheiks, they don't give the rich tax breaks while embezzling our taxes on behalf of corporate crooks, and they don't lie to the American people about why we're at war.

Amen.