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BuffaloJack
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 Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject: Swifties being called liars and smearmongers again ... |
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| Quote: | Dodd won't support nominee over Swift Boat contribution
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
By SAM HANANEL
Copyright © 2007 AP Wire
Democrats, including U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, are raising concerns about President Bush's nominee for ambassador to Belgium because he gave money to the group that impugned Sen. John Kerry's war record during the 2004 presidential campaign.
With a vote set today in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Dodd, D-Conn., said Tuesday he opposes the nomination of St. Louis businessman Sam Fox because Fox "refused to apologize for his behavior" during a confirmation hearing last month.
"U.S. ambassadors need to be both responsible and credible, and Mr. Fox's support for an organization known to have spread falsehoods illustrates neither," said Dodd, who is seeking the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
Fox, one of the nation's most prominent Republican fundraisers, made a $50,000 contribution to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Many Democrats blamed the group for sinking Kerry's presidential bid after it aired a series of TV ads that claimed Kerry, D-Mass., did not deserve his Vietnam War medals.
Eleven of Kerry's Vietnam crew mates sent a letter Tuesday urging committee members to oppose Fox's nomination. A copy of the letter was obtained by The Associated Press.
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http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=21445 |
The Democrats will never let this go.
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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Dodd wants his name in the paper and can't resist an opportunity for some media focus. Frankly, he couldn't care less about Kerry's chagrin.
Fox will be confirmed...Kerry isn't President...and never will be. All in all, a nice way to finish a decade.
edit: Just after I posted, I saw that Fox's nomination had beed withdrawn. A yawn is about all I can muster. |
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Schadow
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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Picked this up at (ugh!) Huffington Post today:
| Quote: | President Bush on Wednesday withdrew the ambassadorial nomination of businessman Sam Fox after Democrats denounced Fox for giving money to a controversial conservative group that undermined Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.
Kerry, D-Mass., had criticized Fox because of a $50,000 contribution that Fox made in 2004 to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. |
Sad.
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1991932
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:16 am Post subject: |
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How many of you knew that Sam Fox is 77, and Jewish?
I didn't either, until Rush mentioned it today. I confirmed it on nndb.com.
Funny how the media leaves out facts which would make a Republican more appealing to the Democrats, or to readers in general, if there is a difference anymore.
Speaking of which, I don't have enough time to surf the conservative web sites, let alone hang out over at the Huffington Post. Schadow, you must have been in Intelligence.
"Know thy Enemy"
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Schadow
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:50 am Post subject: |
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| 1991932 wrote: | | .... Schadow, you must have been in Intelligence. |
As a matter of fact, I was. In this case, though, I was searching Google to find the text of Pelosi's snarky comment, directed at the President:
| Quote: | | "Calm down with the threats, there's a new Congress in town." She went on to say, "We respect your constitutional role, we want you to respect ours." |
The search took me to HuffPo and there was a link to the Fox thing. I stayed there only as long as I could hold my breath.
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AMOS
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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| So, the contributions/donations you make could affect your future in politickys? Velcomme to Amerika! Yah? |
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carpro
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Me#1You#10 wrote: |
...Kerry isn't President...and never will be. All in all, a nice way to finish a decade.
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And that was the point of the whole exercise, wasn't it?
The Swiftvets will always be heros for keeping a gundecking traitor out of the Oval Office. 
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