The Many Faces of John Kerry

MarineTiger · Sep 10, 2004

In The Many Faces of John Kerry, Bossie unearths many shocking revelations from Kerry's lifelong ambition of climbing the political latter, including:

How in 1972 Kerry, the political opportunist went district to district, shopping for any constituency that would take him—locally the term became known as "Kerrymandering"

How, in a dramatic speech in front of the United States Senate on April 22, 1971, Kerry lied under oath to the U.S. Congress—it was discovered later when pressed that he had not actually witnessed war crimes he claims were committed by fellow soldiers in Vietnam

How Kerry has accused the Bush administration of corruption but he himself had a close political relationship with David Paul, a central figure in the BCCI banking scandal of the late 1980s

How Kerry's anti-war protests during the Vietnam war actually affected treatment of the POWs by the North Vietnamese- Senator John McCain remarked after six years in captivity at the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison that his captors were bombarding him with anti-war rhetoric from the United States

How Kerry, while leading the Senate investigation into BCCI, attended extravagant lavish parties, used the personal jets, luxury yachts and hob-knobbed with the main suspects of the investigation.

How, despite Kerry claims to have "never taken a dime of political action committee (PAC) money," he is the Senate's "top recipient of individual campaign contributions from paid lobbyists; he's taken more money from them over the past fifteen years than any of his Senate colleagues."

How Kerry bashes "big corporations" on the campaign trail, but has hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from "big corporations"

How Kerry has criticized the Bush administration for pursuing economic policies which encourage corporations to send jobs overseas, but his wife's own Heinz Corp. has been off-shoring hundreds of American jobs, and his own presidential campaign has outsourced jobs to Canada

How members of Veterans Against the War - the group he formed after Vietnam - viewed Kerry as a "power-grabbing elitist," and unlike the rest of the members. He was the brunt of jokes for his servants and his upper-class persona

How Kerry intervened in the Senate to keep open a major loophole that allowed an insurance company to divert millions from the nation's most expensive construction project, then received tens of thousand of dollars in donations from the same company

How Kerry has supported nearly every tax increase or piece of legislation that would repeal tax cuts during his 20-plus years in the Senate, and is vowing to scale back tax cuts passed by the Bush administration

How Kerry has championed his Vietnam service and belittled President Bush for getting an early discharge from the Texas Air National Guard to pursue politics, but Kerry also requested-and received-an early discharge from the U.S. Navy so he could run for Congress on an "anti-war platform"

How Kerry demeans those that serve in the National Guard - even though "about one-fifth of the 130,000 soldiers in Iraq- 28,000-were members of the National Guard and Reserve," and Air National Guard members have served in nearly every conflict fought by the U.S. since WWI.

How Kerry, on the surface, champions environmentalism, but he has refused to weigh in on a proposed wind farm project near one of his homes in Cape Cod, to the point of drawing criticism for his silence from environmental group Greenpeace

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