Picture of Kerry Being Arrested for Peace, Nixon's fear of Kerry

[RegenerationMan]

KERRY ARRESTED FOR PEACE MAY 31, 1971

Read this article!

http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061703.shtml

Nixon instructed Charles Colson to "Destroy the young demagogue before he becomes another Ralph Nader." Nixon feared him as the most effective protestor.

Today Karl Rove fears Kerry more than any other Democrat. And his wife's money, which can be used for independent advertising!

IMAGINE PRESIDENT KERRY!

[ChadCoffman]

1. Kerry's arrest was an ambitous campaign ploy

Kerry's arrest was an ambitous campaign ploy. He even manipulated Nixon so that he would appeal to anti-war voters and steal primary votes from Dean.

The picture of him and Lennon is also a calculated campaign strategy planned from the beginning.

The fact that he has been planning his campaign since the sixties should strike fear into every decent anti-war person. He is stealing the issue from Dean. But Dean is the only anti-war candidate. There can be no other.

The Left should support Dean and his centrist policies. The Left should not support Kerry and his liberal Leftist policies. The Left should abandon the Left and take up the center. It is the only way for the Left to win.

SUPPORT DEAN! ABANDON THE LEFT!


"I really have a healthy mistrust of the Left as well as the Right."
-- Howard Dean, the left's presidential candidate

"It's hard to criticize the President when you've got troops in the field... we all have got to support the troops."
-- Howard Dean, the left's presidential candidate

[foo_bar]

2. hilarious

The object of your spoof has no idea if you're making fun of it or leading it to greener pastures, which makes it perfect satire in my book.

But you raise an interesting point: why is Kerry too liberal for greens? I think the answer isn't a progressive litmus test that Dean would fail, but a threshold for raw paranoid anger that Kerry will never achieve. In my limited anecdotal experience, greens are wealthy and white, usually with horrible republican parents that inspired their expense-paid journey to reactionary consciousness.

[George_Bonanza]

27. Brilliant!

That was really funny!

[molly]

34. I notice that Chad is no longer with us

I think he had things a tad backwards.

[Octafish]

3. Hey NIXON! You, too, COLSON!

JOHN KERRY IS A BETTER MAN THAN RALPH NADER EVER WILL BE.

[CMT]

4. well I admire the stand Kerry took during Vietnam

he was right to oppose that unjust war. I wonder why he felt Iraq was a different story?

[blm]

8. Try believing his floor speech.

And everything he has said about Iraq since he worked with Clinton in 98. He is consistent. War as last resort IF Saddam does not comply with the diplomatic efforts and the UN.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

15. His speech was awesome!

And then he voted....

[JohnKleeb]

25. I support Kucinich as you know

Kerry has a solid anti war history, remember what he did in Iran-Contra I got an article around here that says Dean had mixed feelings, aint looking for a fight just making a point. I for one think Kerry, Dean, or Kucinich especially would be DU's best candiate.

[DrFunkenstein]

5. Born In The USA!

Kerry has Rove pissing his pants. Not literally, of course, but Rove understands that Kerry is a great chessmaster equal to him in ambition and grand strategy. But where Bush looks and sounds like a regular guy, Kerry has the war hero card. Rove dreads the day that Kerry mentions the word "AWOL."

What Dean fans don't understand is why Kerry doesn't come out with it now. Because they are used to straight ahead checkers. But very few people are paying attention right now, and Kerry is saving it until later on. If he played it now, it would become a non-issue by the time elections rolled around. By holding onto it, Rove can only sweat, unable to counter-attack and certainly unwilling to bring it up on his own.

Kerry has been playing his cards right to get one of the most progressive records on the books seen as middle-of-the-road. Rove is trying to nuetralize Dean by (falsely) calling him a liberal eccentric. But he can't finish up Dean as the liberal eccentric and then call Kerry the also-liberal eccentric. You can't call Dean the next McGovern AND call Kerry the next Dukakis. It will look like you haven't got anything better than cheap, inexact comparisons. It will work even more in Kerry's favor if Dean can prove he is NOT McGovern. That way people will be even more unlikely to pay attention to the Kennedy-Dukakis comparisons.

[RegenerationMan]

7. Yes Exactly! I think Kerry is as smart or smarter than Clinton on this

Kerry and his campaign have a whole game plan that really sees the Fall as the takeoff for it all. I think Kerry will eventually prove to be as good or better than Clinton at politics, that's how smart he is.

Kerry is very prepared for his run and has been on Bush's back about Tora Bora and letting Osama escape for a long time, and is the guy who led the BCCI investigation and fought for indictments.

Kerry has it all. Besides, his initials are JFK!

IMAGINE PRESIDENT KERRY

[blm]

9. Clinton may be the better pol, and definitely more entertaining

but, Kerry has the greater self-discipline.

[kwolf68]

22. Bingo Funken

Good post

[phillybri]

6. I love it...

Kerry is the man....

[genius]

10. Good for Kerry

I knew there was something I liked about him. He's not my first choice. But I think he would make a good President.

[CWebster]

11. Oh here we go again

Digging up ancient history as if it had any bearing on today's issues.

[molly]

12. Really? Are you saying Skull and Bones is a thing of the past?

[CWebster]

13. beats me, molly

Don't know much about the skull and bones. But from what I have heard it is a lifetime thing, unlike protesting for peace after you've enlisted in a unjust war.. We have a book about it somewhere here in the library, I'll look it up if you'd like.

[DrFunkenstein]

19. Keep Digging That Hole

Not everybody rich boy decided to cozy up with ski bunnies.

How can you ask someone to be the last man to slalom for a mistake?

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[DrFunkenstein]

14. I Giggle Everytime You React To The Lennon Picture

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Ooo wee! Look at the sexy man!

[CWebster]

17. I titter

everytime you post another one of the hearthrob shots you plaster over the inside of your locker.

;-)

[DrFunkenstein]

20. At Least You Have A Sense Of Humor

Which puts you in a much better class than most rabid Dean fans.

[crissy71]

16. I'm going to be the devil's advocate

And ask - Will Rove use that pic of Kerry getting arrested as an attack ad to scare voters away from him? Do you think it would work or back-fire?

[genius]

18. It will impress all those who were horrified by Vietnam

The truth is out about Vietnam. I think it can only help him.

[blm]

21. With most of the vet and military vote going to Kerry

Rove will be hiding in shame. There is a whole campaign being organized by veterans to protest Bush in 2004. Next year will be a defining time for Democrats and the GOP. Reality will rear its head and shake the crap out of perception.

[IndianaGreen]

39. Kerry is not getting my vote, and I am a veteran

Kerry is also not getting a single vote from the Veterans for Peace.

One more thing, John Lennon would shocked and ashamed of Kerry's vote on the Iraq war, and would demand that the Kerry campaign not use his likeness in any campaign posters.

[blm]

45. Too bad.

Sorry, you are so cynical about such a great man.


btw...Kerry isn't using that picture.on campaign posters. That story was a crock, and only the gullible who wished to further their hate on, believed it.

[MercutioATC]

46. Good for you, IndianaGreen...

I'm an admitted supporter of another candidate, but I DO feel that there are 2 types of veterans (and people in general)

1) Patriots: Those who love their country and, when America seems to be heading in the wrong direction, have the courage to try to put her back on course.

2) Nationalists: Those who believe that America's administration is right, regardless of whether their decisions represent the standards we all believe in.


You're obviously a patriot.

[blm]

49. That's bull, MercutioATC....

Especially in the context of congratulating someone for refusing to vote for Kerry.

You will support a guy whose own position was not far off Kerry's, and who is considerably more of a hawk on the mideast, but, refuse to vote for Kerry. And you call yourselves patriots. That's a huge disconnect.

[kwolf68]

23. What WAS Dean doing during Vietnam

After serving this nation with honor in which he say many men needlessly killed, John Kerry came back and fought to end the killing.

Kerry is our best hope.

[DrFunkenstein]

24. Skiing - That'll Play Well In The South

I think its an unfair attack on Dean, who got out of the draft for medical reasons. And I sure as hell wouldn't beg them to let me go. But then again, I'm not running a campaign against a war hero.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

26. Before reading this article

Before reading this article (http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061703.shtml) I didn't even know that Kerry was an anti-war activist. I've supported him for years after listening to him speak in the Senate, and of course I knew he was a Vietnam vet because they always mention that. But that he returned to the States to become a leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War? I found that pretty inspiring. There are a lot of voters out there who remember the nightmare that Vietnam was for this country and who can see us heading down the same path now. I think Kerry will really be able to put that in focus.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

28. Lieberman arrested!

Lieberman, who is considered "mentally incompetent," according to university police Sgt. James Vandenberg, is responsible for approximately $50,000 in damage to university property over the last six years.

Vandenberg said Lieberman is responsible for a variety of vandalism and arson incidents over the last six years. The last time he was arrested by university police was in 1994 when he was caught setting fire to bulletin boards in the dorms.

Last week, Lieberman allegedly broke into several Kerckhoff Hall offices spraying swastikas on the walls and cutting computer and telephone wires. After allegedly vandalizing the building, police said he filled out a Daily Bruin application, which he left in the building, including his name and phone numbers.

Lieberman was arrested a few days later by university police Officer Clydine Crowdell while walking around the dorms late Wednesday night.

Lieberman, who lives with his mother in Beverly Hills, is currently in jail awaiting judgment. The district attorney has recommended that Lieberman be institutionalized and placed under a UCLA lifetime restraining order, which would ban him from campus. http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/articles.asp?ID=6565

[IndianaGreen]

29. That John Kerry is NOT the same John Kerry that is running for Prez

The John Kerry that was arrested for marching for peace would have never voted for Bush's Iraq war resolution.

The Kerry campaign is being disingenous as usual. Rightwinger David Horowitz was a liberal many years ago. Are we to judge him for the man that he once was, or for the man that he is today?

[DrFunkenstein]

33. Kerry's Never Been A Peacenik, That's Howard "Pinko" Dean

Dean is a rabid pacifist that opposed every war in the last thousand years. Would you trust him to protect your children?

I would much rather get behind the guy who vocally supported a unilateralist rush to invasion for regime change! F--- the UN, man! Bunch of foreigners if you ask me. Speak English or die!

Kerry's record has always been solidly centrist. Dean and his hippie liberal Vermont birkenstock-lovers can go back to peacefully eating their Ben and Jerry's. I want a Democrat that will make America #1 like Reagan did.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

35. Now you're getting it.

____New Kerry slogan?____

[DrFunkenstein]

36. Like Dean's Foreign Policy

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[IndianaGreen]

38. "I want a Democrat that will make America #1 like Reagan did."

Is that why you have the Lieberman avatar? In that case I agree with you. Lieberman will make America #1 pariah in the world as Reagan and Bush have done. Mush brain also bankrupted the country, as Bush is doing.

[blm]

37. Considering that YOU prefer a guy

who treated liberals like shit for 11 years while buddying up to his GOP allies, and are now convinced that his 8 month long sojourn to the left wing of the party is genuine.....well....um....we'll see.

[George_Bonanza]

44. Basically, what you're saying is to nullify Kerry's record

Because it's "all in the past", and that he's some kind of Republican in disguise, falsely touting his impressively liberal record which he's maintained every year, as evident by his yearly strong evaluations by leading liberal groups like Ralph Nader's Public Citizen, the League of Conservation Voters, and the Sierra Club, as well as other groups. Please, do some research.

[Egnever]

30. Yet another example

Of kerry needing to beat over the head before coming down on the right side of an issue.

After hapily signing up to go fight the Vietnem war showing his strong suport for it. He comes back realizing hmmm maybe this isnt such a good idea after all.

Kinda like voting for the iraq war then after seeing the milions in the street realizing hey maybe this wasnt such a good idea.

He gets there eventually wich is good I just wish he would make the right choice first more often.

[George_Bonanza]

40. Egnever, oh boy... Kerry lost 6 of his best friends in the war

Look, John Kerry lost 6 of his best friends because of Vietnam. Don't you think it's a TAD disrespectful to question his Vietnam experience in a political view? Kerry enlisted before the protests really began, and he probably thought that it was America's duty to keep the peace in the world. Nowadays, we can look back in hindsight and groan all day about how stooopid it was, but that is now.

[Egnever]

41. Well thats certainly worse than a beating over the head

I am not questioning his vietnam experience. I am quite sure he went.

The fact that he was eager to go to a war that he ended up being against is my point.

Kinda like voting for the IRW and then after doing it deciding maybe it wasnt such a good idea.

Or say the patriot act and then deciding it wasnt such a good idea.

I am glad he ends up on the right side of the issues in the end most of the time, but his first reaction seems to be to go the wrong way first.

[DrFunkenstein]

42. Actually, He Had Reservations About The War

But still felt a strong sense of Kennedy's "ask what you can do for your country."

As for the IWR, there was no change between Kerry's stance before the war - going back to 1997 even - and after. He said what Bush should have done, then spoke up when Bush didn't. Kerry was not misled. He felt that Saddam needed to be held accountable. He still holds that position.

He just would have done things very, very differently. If Kerry was President, we would never have invaded, because he would truly have exhausted peaceful avenues. He never believed Saddam posed an imminent threat, nor did he believe in pre-emption, nor did he believe Saddam's crimes against his people justified invasion.

But he thought that after 9/11 the US could not tolerate any fooling around on Saddam's part. He would have to submit to unfettered inspections - palaces, scientists and all - or pay the price. Just like Dean believed. Outside of the vote, which didn't effect things one way or another, there was zero difference between the candidates.

[George_Bonanza]

43. Dean also tried to enlist

Boy, what an idiot, huh? Can't trust him!

[robbedvoter]

31. It makes his stand for war even more pathetic. In 10 more years

he'll be Trent Lott?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

32. ...calculating...

boo bee bop boop

Nope. Bill Frist.

[polpilot]

48. Gumby?

.

[polpilot]

47. Imagine Lennon's disgust at Kerry's 'death' vote against Iraqis. Imagine

Lennon's intelligent response to Kerry's lame ass excuses and 'technicalities' for voting with Chimpy and the death squads, voting for the bomb manufacturers, and the avowed killers and maimers of innocents. Imagine.

Dean '04... America's Patriot

[blm]

50. Both Dean and Kerry supported resolutions for war.

If the Biden-Lugar bill that Dean said he would have voted for last fall, had passed, Bush still would have had his war, and you would be fawning all over his "courageous" decision. There is no reality to SBNA Deanies.

[genius]

51. Great picture.

I wish he were still that liberal. His main problem has been compromising. I know he has his reasons. In order to impress the liberal crowd, he needs to start going out on a limb. Davis's problem is that he played it too safe and now he may lose his job. It's courage agianst the Republicans that stands out.