The Swiftees are exposing Kerry as a shameless opportunist. Quick — name another Vietnam vet who hauled around a Super-8 movie camera in order to re-enact his exploits on film. Quick — name another Vietnam vet with the audacity to request a Purple Heart for a “wound” that was treated with tweezers and patched with a Band-Aid. The sheer number of his fellow swift boat officers who challenge Kerry’s record, and the detail and mutual corroboration in their remembrances, paint a picture that is both credible and devastating.

That Purple Heart and the fact that he wrote up his own paperwork to suggest that he receive it, is a slap in the face to any Vet who has received that honor, and cheapens and minimizes it for any man who has ever received one–Like REAL heroes that are no longer with us.

To wit: Audie Murphy.

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“So far, John Kerry has been the direct beneficiary of an estimated $60 million worth of ‘independent’ TV ads, many of which viciously attack President Bush.

… Democrat 527 organizations, so-named for the IRS section that governs them, have been saturating the airwaves and cable channels, supplementing Mr. Kerry’s own bulging campaign coffers. Democrat 527s have overwhelmed their Republican counterparts, effectively permitting Mr. Kerry to monopolize this McCain-Feingold soft-money loophole.

The relatively tiny effort by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth proves the point, which The New York Times completely missed in its Page 1 story on Friday. Instead, the NYT was upset over the fact that the veterans received $225,000 of its initial $500,000 stake from two Texans. The amounts were $200,000 from real estate executive Bob Perry, whom the NYT identified as ‘the top donor to Republicans in the state,’ and $25,000 from Harlan Crow, ‘the seventh-largest donor to Republicans’ in Texas.

By the standards established by Democrat 527 donors, Mr. Perry would be a piker, while Mr. Crow’s contribution would not even qualify as a rounding error. In fact, based on data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, 21 of the 22 individuals who have contributed at least $500,000 to 527s have donated a cumulative $56.7 million to Democrat-oriented groups. These include Peter Lewis ($14 million), George Soros ($12.6 million) and Steven Bing ($8.1 million). The sole exception among the 22 is Carl Lindner, who has donated $1.02 million to Republican-oriented 527s.

… If Mr. Kerry is really looking for a smoking gun, he ought to examine the Media Fund (total receipts: $27.2 million), which is run by former Clinton Deputy Chief of Staff Harold Ickes, and America Coming Together (total receipts: $26.9 million). The chief spokesman for both of these Democrat 527s is Jim Jordan, who happens to be Mr. Kerry’s former campaign manager. Not surprising, a separate article appearing in Friday’s New York Times regarding Federal Elections regulation of 527s mentioned Mr. Jordan in his capacity as spokesman for the Media Fund and ACT, but neglected to mention his Kerry connection.” –The Washington Times

Interestingly, the New York times Reported on August 20, that a change to the 527 rules was passed. And even more interesting is the fact that these new rules won’t apply to this year’s election. Was this done just to benefit George Soros, Teresa Heinz and their Green organizations, I have to wonder….?

Sens. Russ Feingold (left) (D-Wis.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) react during a rally on Wednesday following a test vote on campaign finance reform. The measure later passed the Senate on a 60-40 vote.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/nat/mar02/28993.asp

Panel Compromises on Soft Money Rules-NYT

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/20/politics/campaign/20donate.html

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The more I uncover about Obama, I realize more and more how the media has painted him as the ‘golden boy’ of this senate race with absolutely no substance whatsoever.

Contact: Richard Pearson of the Illinois State Rifle Association, 815-635-3198,
Web: http://www.isra.org

CHICAGO, Aug. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ — The following was released today by the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA):

The ISRA is warning the state’s 1.5 million law-abiding firearm owners not to be taken in by Barack Obama’s recent claims of support for the 2nd Amendment published in downstate newspapers.

Obama, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, has a well- established history of hostility toward hunters, sportsmen, and other law-abiding firearm owners. For example, in 2003, Obama voted in support of SB1195, which, if passed, would have banned most of the privately held hunting shotguns, target rifles, and black powder rifles in the state. If the ban was enacted, law enforcement officials would have been authorized to forcibly enter private homes to confiscate newly banned firearms.

Fortunately, very few Illinois Senators shared Obama’s extremist view on private firearm ownership and the bill was defeated. More recently, Obama cast a total of 4 votes in opposition to SB2165. SB2165 was drafted to protect homeowners from prosecution in cases where they used a firearm to halt a home invasion. Once again, Obama found himself on the wrong side of the issue as overwhelming majorities of both the House and the Senate voted in favor of this important legislation.

Obama’s steadfast opposition to SB2165 is indicative of his misplaced priorities on issues of self-defense and personal firearm ownership. Adding even further skepticism to Obama’s claim of support for the 2nd Amendment is his previous service as a director of the Joyce Foundation. Since 2000, the Joyce Foundation has provided over $15 Million in funding to radical gun control organizations such as the Violence Policy Center and the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence.

The Joyce Foundation is tightly linked to the Soros Open Society Institute — an extremist group that advocates a worldwide ban on civilian firearm ownership. Certainly, Barack Obama would not have been invited to sit on the board of the Joyce Foundation had he not held similar views on private firearm ownership.

“It’s easy for Mr. Obama to issue statements to downstate papers from the comfort of his Chicago office,” commented ISRA Executive Director Richard Pearson. “But he’s going to find it much harder to hide from a legislative record that paints him as one of the most active gun control advocates in the General Assembly. If Obama feels that he has a record on guns that he can run on, he shouldn’t be shy about taking that record on the road. We want to see Barack Obama look downstate hunters and sportsmen right in the eye and explain why he has voted the way he has. We want to hear Barack Obama explain why he feels that he should be the candidate of choice for the law-abiding firearm owner.”

—— The ISRA is the state’s leading advocate of safe, lawful and responsible firearms ownership. For over a century, the ISRA has represented the interests of over 1.5 million law-abiding Illinois firearm owners. http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=35120

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Supposedly, Tens of Thousands of protestors are at the GOP Convention right now. Cheney has just arrived. Remember my prediction–with George Soros’ money funding them, the Ruckus Society has been training for weeks for this event. And who’s there with them? Why, it’s Jesse Jackson! The demonstrators are packed like sardines on the street from sidewalk to sidewalk for 20 blocks as they slowly filed past. “Hope is in the air, help is on the way,” civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said through a bullhorn.

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