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[kmudd]

http://www.uwire.com/content//topops090104002.html

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- A few months ago, Sen. John Kerry, while campaigning in Ohio, visited Jim's Steak and Spaghetti House and sat in the same booth John F. Kennedy sat in during his 1960 presidential campaign.

Seemingly, Kerry has many things in common with Kennedy. Both are Democrats from Massachusetts, Roman Catholics, products of privileged upbringings and both served in the Navy. Kerry now hopes to replicate Kennedy's successful presidential campaign. While Kerry and his family were even friends with JFK, the comparison between them ends there. There are three big differences: Their beliefs on taxes, policies regarding pre-emptive military actions and where each stands in relation to the extreme leftists.

The first difference is clearly seen in their economic policies toward taxes. On Dec. 14, 1962, Kennedy gave a speech to the Economic Club of New York. He said, "The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the deterrents to private initiative which are imposed by our present tax system; and this administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes to be enacted and become effective in 1963."

Kennedy's view couldn't be further from what Kerry has repeatedly said. Kerry has spoken out against the long-term federal income tax cuts and corporate tax cuts President George W. Bush has passed and has insisted he will repeal them. After repealing the tax cuts, he will spend lots of money. Former Clinton administration economist Ken Thorpe, estimated the cost of Kerry's health care program stands at $653 billion over a decade.

Their second difference is seen in their positions on the use of pre-emptive military force. Kennedy, without international support, approved the planning and funding of the attempted overthrow of Fidel Castro and his socialist government. Kennedy authorized the use of U.S. B-26's, disguised to look as though they were Cuban planes, to bomb four airfields in Cuba. He even equipped about 1,500 of the Cuban exiles with U.S. weapons. After the fighting commenced, the exiles landed on the southern coast of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. Kennedy decided against giving the faltering invasion U.S. air support when he thought a ground invasion would be necessary to win. By the time fighting ended April 19, four U.S. pilots were killed, 90 exiles were dead and the rest were captured. Kennedy was forced to negotiate for the release of 1,189 of them.

The character traits Kerry openly flaunts are not those of a leader. A leader is a person who will take unilateral action when necessary. Kerry is a follower, not a leader. He believes the United States should only act if other countries support our actions. Kerry's moral choice is merely based on what the majority agrees with. While everyone would like other countries to help and support our actions, Kerry seems to need other governments to agree with his decision before he is confident any action is the correct one to take.

Its not easy to compare how Kerry would act because he has never been clear on how he would have acted with regard to the situation in Iraq. I encourage everyone to see a short film made up of TV interviews Kerry has given over the last few years. Rudy Giuliani said about the film, "I urge [Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie] to show to every American, because I think every American should see this." Since most of you have seen "Fahrenheit 9/11," if you are truly open-minded, then you need to see this short film at www.KerryOnIraq.com.

When Kennedy ran for office, his strongest position was that he more anti-communist than his presidential opponent Richard Nixon. Once elected, he sought to contain the spread of communism. In the first speech he made to the American public as their president, Kennedy made it clear he intended to continue Dwight D. Eisenhower's policy of supporting the South Vietnamese government where he sensed a growing communist threat. He argued that if South Vietnam became a communist state, the rest of the non-communist world would be at risk. If South Vietnam fell, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Philippines and many more would follow. If communism was not contained in Vietnam, it would gradually spread throughout the world. This view became known as the Domino Theory.

Kennedy went on to argue, "No other challenge is more deserving of our effort and energy. ... Our security may be lost piece by piece, country by country, and that under his leadership, America would be willing to, "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty." Kennedy's action to send the first 100 military advisors and a special unit of 400 soldiers to Vietnam became the beginning of the Vietnam War. Kennedy argued, "those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."

At many of the pro-Kerry/anti-Bush rallies, I have seen signs and booths proposing communist ideals. A few of those organizing protests in New York City during the Republican National Convention openly acknowledge they are proponents of these views. Castro even showed Michael Moore's entertaining movie, "Farenheit 9/11," over the state television.

One of Kerry's catchphrases during this election is "Let America Be America Again." The line comes from a poem written by Langston Hughes, who was outspoken about his communist affiliations and even wrote for a Marxist Journal. Many interpret this poem as speaking of a hopeful dream that America will turn into the communist utopia. Communist Party USA has come out in support of Kerry for this election. The support Kerry is getting from the radical left, the very views Kennedy fought against, leads me to think Kerry isn't very far from them.

As Kennedy was scheduled to say in a speech at the Trade Mart in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, "We in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than choice -- the watchmen on the walls of world freedom."

If John F. Kennedy were alive today, he wouldn't be voting for Kerry

[Mooncusser]

But he is a Benedict Arnold !
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Thu Thua, Long An

I actually won the election before I lost it.

"It is a good day to fight! It is a good day to die! Strong hearts, brave hearts to the front! Weak hearts and cowards to the rear!" (Crazy Horse)

[greasepaint]

PCF-109 is my favorite VietNam era movie.
I especially like the scene where Kerry rescues
Willard and Rassman after their boat was rammed
by the Cambodian destroyer.

[RMalloy]

LOL Greasepaint - That was my favorite too.

Kerry is in love with Kennedy because Kennedy was so elite, even when
he took us all the way down Vietnam way. Kennedy picked Vietnam because he was afraid of Laos. Yet he was so eloquent about it all,
and isn't that what it's all about. When you read Kerry's Tour of Duty
you cannot be struck by all the loftiness of it all, the many, many spellbinding speeches Kerry gave to save the day, his mind so filled
with facts and wisdom. Kerry would have gotten away with it all in
1960 but not now. We're on to em like fleas on a dog. Kennedy's
dad had the mob stuffin the ballets in Chicago. Kerry just can't stop castigating the military, when the Swiftvets backed him into a corner
his phoney facade fell off as he turned and ran away as fast as he could,
the same coward as over thirty years ago.

[lrb111]

Things around my house have been running about as stressful as i have ever lived through. Really tough to lay down and sleep at night.
But the other day, i heard the guy at the National Guard convention introduce Jf'nK, as John F. Kennedy.
At the time i thought it was so ironic, and felt really sorry for the emcee..

But later on my head hits the pillow, trying to flush my brain out, the images of that introduction and then the faces of the crowd mostly glaring at Kerry superimposed themselves.

Then the real genius of the emcee hit me.
When he made the introduction, there was no correction, or any note of any kind made of it.
But the crowd was sitting there thinking, all that tiime "he isn't John F. Kennedy"... in fact, i'm sure many began thinking "senator, you're no John Kennedy"...

I drifted right off thinking those good thoughts.
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said Democratic Chairman Terry McAuliffe. "It is inexcusable to mock service and sacrifice."
well, when even the DNC can see it,,,,, then kerry is toast.