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LewWaters
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 Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 4:13 am Post subject: Questionare For Kerry or Supporters |
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Charlie Daniels, the Country Star, has on his website, a section he calls Charlies Soapbox. A few weeks ago, he asked for Vietnam Vets to express theirselves about Kerry in emails. Afterwards, he posted this letter asking what I believe to be some very pertinent questions. Like Mr. Daniels, I do not expect Kerry to take time out from his jetsetting all over the country campaigning and having his manservant make him peanut butter and jelly sandwiches long enough to actually answer them himself, but wonder if any Kerry supporters know enough about him to actually answer them by what they have heard Kerry say.
The questionare can be found here;
http://www.charliedaniels.com/soapbox/04/021.html |
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waltjones
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 4:40 am Post subject: Questionnaire |
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Damn! I couldn't get past Question #1. Guess I'm not a Kerry supporter .... I'm so depressed ... NOT! Semper Fi!
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Walt Jones (USMC, '65 - '69) It says much about the person who defends a man with no honor. |
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ROTC DAD
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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LewWaters,
Pertinent questions, yes, but phrased in such a way as to elicit a specific emotional response. As the questions without the bias showing through and you could ask the same things of President Bush.
It is obvious from the phrasing and the innuendo that Mr. Daniels has already made up his mind about each of the topics and has already made up his mind about he would expect John Kerry to answer. These questions are like the trick question, "When did you stop beating your wife?" |
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fortdixlover
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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| ROTC DAD wrote: | LewWaters,
Pertinent questions, yes, but phrased in such a way as to elicit a specific emotional response. As the questions without the bias showing through and you could ask the same things of President Bush.
It is obvious from the phrasing and the innuendo that Mr. Daniels has already made up his mind about each of the topics and has already made up his mind about he would expect John Kerry to answer. These questions are like the trick question, "When did you stop beating your wife?" |
ROTC DAD:
Please do us a favor and rephrase the questions into a form you consider 'acceptable.'
Thanks!
For your convenience, I reproduce those questions below:
Questionnaire for John Kerry
Mr. Kerry, I assume that you are going to win your party’s nomination
to run for President. My congratulations to you.
Now, in all due respect, all I have heard you do is blast President
Bush and remind us of your Vietnam war record, and while I honor you
for serving our country, I don’t think that military service alone is
an adequate qualification for being our President.
I have a few questions I would like to ask to try to help me understand
where you’re coming from and where you would take the nation should you
become President.
1. Do you really believe that your support among veterans is as strong
as you claim? The reason I ask is that my email indicates otherwise,
in fact some of the 'Nam vets feel downright vitriolic towards you and
consider you a traitor to the military because of your post Vietnam
endeavors.
2. If you became President would you veto the development of new
weapons systems as you did in the Senate when you voted against the
programs so many times? And would you veto funding the military again
while they are fighting a war?
3. What would you do about the economy besides raising taxes and
redistributing the wealth?
4. How do you really feel about gay marriage? One answer, please.
5. If the subject of partial birth abortion came up again would you
sign a bill banning it?
6. What would you do about the war in Iraq? Would you bring the troops
home immediately and what do you think the effect of such a move would
be? Do you think it would be viewed by the world as another example of
America starting something we didn’t finish?
7. You seem to be a big fan of the United Nations. If elected would
you give over the sovereignty of this nation to the U.N.? Would you
assign our troops to a U.N. commander to serve in a cause that may not
benefit the USA? If this nation were in eminent danger would you take
it to the U.N. and not act against the threat until the move was
ratified by the Security Council? For instance if we had another 9/11
incident would you go to the U.N. before you sent troops?
8. Where do you stand on separation of church and state? Do you
believe that the amendment was written to protect the state from the
church or the church from the state?
9. Where do you stand on social programs? Do you believe that we
should continue to fund welfare programs which, in essence, keep poor
people poor by sentencing them to life in a ghetto with more children
than they can possibly care for.
10. I haven’t heard you mention where you stand on gun control. Do
you believe that the constitution guarantees law-abiding citizens the
right to own firearms?
11. As I’m sure you’re aware, much of the political policy in this
country is being dictated by the judicial branch. Would you appoint
judges who believe that the country should be run by the legislative
and executive branches as the constitution intended?
12. How do you feel about the environment? Do you believe that
enterprise and ecology can exist side by side, and would you work to
preserve jobs that radical greens would take away in the name of
preservation?
13. Where do you see America going in the next couple of decades?
Should we stand proud and independent, setting our own course and
making our own decisions as we have for over two hundred years? Or
would you lead this nation on the course of acquiescence? Fifty years
from now will we still be the land of the free and the home of the
brave or will we be a race of milksop sheep, led around by the nose by
the United Nations and the Kyoto treaty and all the other so called
global organizations who would like nothing better that absorb our
sovereignty?
14. And lastly how do you feel about personal responsibility? Do you
believe that a man who fathers a child should be forced to support the
child until it reaches the age of majority? Do you believe that guns
kill people or that bad people kill people? Do you believe that every
able-bodied person should work for a living? Do you think that
frivolous lawsuits are completely out of hand and should have something
done about them? Do you believe in the death penalty? Do you believe
that an industrious person should be given the same pay as a lazy
person? Do you believe that the raising of a child is the
responsibility of the parents, or the government? |
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coffee
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Sorry folks. John Kerry doesn't have time to answer your important questions because he is too busy writing letters to Dear Abby. Did anyone see her column today in which he was responding to a young girl who wants to be president and her friends were ridiculing her. He basically said that anyone can be president. A great one to give advice!! |
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Carl Bowman
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| Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 1:31 am Post subject: |
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| Pertinent questions, yes, George W. Bush would probably be proud to asnswer these Questions |
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LewWaters
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| Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| I believe Bush has answered them by his actions. |
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