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[integritycounts]

All kidding aside, this is truly pathetic of the Kerry to be crying about, talk about being a whimp of a leader....as President would he be talking about his feelings being hurt...or would he be a leader?

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McAuliffe slams GOP parody of Purple Hearts
By Stephen Dinan
THE WASHINGTON TIMESPublished September 1, 2004

NEW YORK -- Democrats said yesterday that the Bush administration and Republican officials must have been behind the hundreds of "Purple Heart" adhesive bandages mocking Sen. John Kerry, which were distributed Monday night on the Republican convention floor.

"Having myself chaired two Democratic conventions, let's be crystal clear. This did not just happen," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe.

"Two hundred and fifty Band-Aids handed out on the floor of the convention does not happen without the leadership of the party and the people who are running this convention, who are ultimately responsible to the president," he said.

He was referring to the several hundred small plastic bandages that several hundred delegates were given Monday night by Morton Blackwell, a Republican National Committee member from Virginia.

Each bandage had a purple heart image on it and the written message: "it was just a self-inflicted scratch, but you see I got a Purple Heart for it."

In addition to a Silver Star and Bronze Star, Mr. Kerry earned three Purple Hearts in the Vietnam War.
The bandages also drew a rebuke from several groups of Purple Heart recipients, who said it was offensive and dishonorable.
Republican convention officials said they had nothing to do with the bandages, but said they have asked Mr. Blackwell not to distribute any more.

Democrats are in New York monitoring the Republican convention, and said Monday night's speeches by Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, and former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, were part of the "greatest theatrical performance of all time" as Republicans nominate Mr. Bush.

"Tonight will take the all-time prize, when the Republican Party tonight, their theme, believe it or not, I'm not joking, is compassion," Mr. McAuliffe said, adding, "I don't know if we've seen any compassion from this administration except for the folks that are in the top 1 percent."
Democrats' main focus yesterday, though, was the medal bandages.

Mr. McAuliffe compared the bandages to the ads being run by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group of Vietnam veterans who believe Mr. Kerry is unfit to be commander in chief. Both Mr. Bush and the veterans say they are not collaborating on the ads, but Democrats say some of Mr. Bush's financial backers are also backing the veterans' ads.

"Once again, this president and all of the Republicans will claim ignorance," Mr. McAuliffe said.
Retired Air Force Gen. Merrill McPeak and Rep. Charles B. Rangel, New York Democrat and a Korean War veteran, meanwhile, compared it to abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

"It isn't just a few foolish people. Like the prison scandal, the tone is set at the top. It had to be organized at the convention," Gen. McPeak said.
•This article is based in part on wire service reports.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20040901-121100-2334r

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[CandiM]

The stunt was ill-advised and in poor taste, but I do find it amusing that these whiners seem to be obsessively compelled to try to make W personally responsible for absolutely everything that ever happens that they don't like or disapprove of--Really pathetic--C
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“I haven’t seen anyone milk this much out of a bad boat ride since Gilligan” -- Dennis Miller

[srmorton]

McAwful thinks that it was "ordered" by the Bush team because he
thinks that Republicans are as oppressive as Democrats when it
comes to freedom of thought. Their convention was so scripted that
they would not have allowed something like that to escape the censors.

Although I hate to defend his position at all, I think that he really
believes that the Swifties are just instruments of the Bush campaign
because that is the relationship the DNC has with the left-leaning 527s.
He can not believe that a truly "grass-roots" effort started by such
a small group of people could have the power to actually change the
course of an election by simply telling the truth.
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Susan R. Morton

[Son Of The Godfather]

[Indianbaboon]

i personally find it distasteful, john Kerry may have exaggerated to get his PHs but handing them out to everyone only devalues them more

[Beatrice1000]

"Merrill McPeak and Rep. Charles B. Rangel, New York Democrat and a Korean War veteran, meanwhile, compared it to abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. "It isn't just a few foolish people. Like the prison scandal, the tone is set at the top. It had to be organized at the convention," Gen. McPeak said."



My kneejerk response was "here again, stomping down on free speech and freedom of expression." Dems always creating facts from opinions & assumptions. "It isn't just a few foolish people.... had to be organized at the convention." OH, REALLY? This is a fact? ABU GHRAIB?? like the prison scandal, had to be organized at the top? This has not been proven, tho it's what the dems want so badly.

Please, please give me a break here, whiny dems digging for anything, anything to complain about..... Perhaps it was in bad taste with regards to using any military medals as images of protest, but it is obvious to me that they are ONLY referring to Kerry. It might have been better to just use the bandaid without any marks on it and put some text that would point out Kerry's fraud. I don't know. But the response of horror by the dems at this convention prank is so none of their business and so not the point. The point is, they have not yet responded to the challenge of the SBVFT.

[kmmpatriot]

[fortdixlover]

[The Balloon Artist]

Let's see an obscure delegate from Virgina passing out homemade band aids.

Looks pretty clear cut to me that Bush is behind this one too.

Now during the Dem convention in 2000 who was it that picked the songs that were played to whip the delegates into Frenzy? a playlist that included, is it "Mambo #3" that included the line "a little bit of Monica on my knee".

What was the intent of that?
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What about John Kerry's four months in Vietnam qualify him to be president?
Al Gore was there for five.

[Beatrice1000]

[sevry]

[Mooncusser]

They take an event that spoofs Benedict Arnold Kerry and then apply it to purple heart vets. It is a fact that Kerry's purple hearts are a joke.

In reality when you demean Benedict Arnold Kerry's purple hearts ..you make mine more valuable and more respectable.

[RMalloy]

Mr Mccauliffe was another of the golden boys from the Clinton era
that pissed of other Demos when he was named head of DNC.
His scrambling and spinning on the media shows he may be headed to the scrap heap, yesterday on Hannity's Radio Show he said he was "proud"
of his involvement in the Global Crossings Fiasco where thousands of
investors lost big time except Mr Mcc. Global Crossings was never discussed in the Times, LA and NY, because it was highly unfavorable.

[RocketFett]

This is so pathetic and hypocritical it just further shows what trolls mccauliffe and kerry and their followers are. For two years mccauliffe has been ripping Bush up one side and down the other for his ANG service, piloting a flying coffin, and having his life at risk doing so, and making accusations about Bush that he couldn't prove, and the records back up the President's accounts, but oh no, somehow in their fantasy world that's okay and justified. Some Purple Owie bandaids is over the top and outrageous. terry needs to put down the crack pipe and get a brain. They've had this coming for two years.