Not Your Sweetie

*Kerry vs the middle class*


Posted to Robbedvoter's weblog (Soapbox) on Sun Jan 25th, 2004 at 06:11:28 AM EST


In spite of having to mortgage his house to make up for the lack  of finnancial support, Kerry is hardly needy.
In fact, he is obscenely wealthy:
Annual Net Income: $15,550,935 - $77,540,000
Net Worth: $198,794,683 - $839,038,000
http://www.bop2004.org/bop2004/candidate.aspx?cid=4&act=pfin
Why is this relevant?
Because this wealth seems to inform Kerry's attitude towards the little people.
Kerry vs minimum wage

A few months later, with President Bill Clinton locked in combat with the Republicans, Mr. Kerry voiced some doubts in a closed-door meeting of senators about the wisdom of trying to raise the minimum wage. And as Mr. Kennedy later recalled, he told Mr. Kerry, "If you're not for raising the minimum wage, you don't deserve to call yourself a Democrat."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/politics/campaign/25RECO.html?pagewanted=1&hp

Kerry vs overtime
Posted Sybil:

Checked c-span's congressional records. The ominous "Omnibus" Appropriations Bill was cloture was defeated by48 - 45
Senators not voting:
Joseph Lieberman (D)
Saxby Chambliss (R)
Daniel Inouye (D)
John Kerry (D)
Mark Dayton (D)
Max Baucus (D)
John Edwards (D)
What's wrong with this picture?
Wes took time off from the campaign to testify in the Netherlands trial of Milosevic.
BUT

Kerry, Lieberman and Edwards [son of a millworker], couldn't take a commuter back and forth from N.H. to D.C. to vote on behalf of the people they are so eager to represent???
Note: Max baucus was having surgery at the time

Same people were absent from the final vote = where the margin was larger.

*Kerry vs tax cuts for the middle class

He questioned whether Clark's plan, unveiled this week, to eliminate taxes on people earning less than $50,000 a year "kind of excuses them from a sense of responsibility for the country."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A63270-2004Jan7&am p;notFound=true
He seems to be siding here with Wall Street Journal in their obscene editorial
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110002937
The Non-Taxpaying Class
Those lucky duckies!
as well as Faux which attacked Clark's plan as excusing the middle class from any responsibility for the war. Clark responded that the middle class has been shouldering all responsibilities of the war, from financial to sending theis sons and daughters.

*Generals vs lieutenants

Kerry Responds To Clark

"That's the first time I have heard a general be so dismissive of lieutenants, who bleed a lot in wars"
John Kerry snapping back at Wesley Clark, on 60 Minutes

(CBS) Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry responded to a military rank-pulling comment aimed at him by rival Democratic presidential contender Wesley Clark by calling Clark, a retired general, "dismissive of lieutenants."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/23/60minutes/main595431.shtml
Patrician Kerry is trying to portray himself as disparaged "son of a mill worker" militarily speaking capitalizing on a right wing attack.
    Cunningly, CNN  did not post the transcript of that Larry King Live but videotape exista and will be properly referenced here.
Bob Dole told Clark he would lose now in NH and that Kerry's win in Iowa made him a colonel and Kerry the General.
"With all due respect, I am still the General and Kerry is still the lieutenant" answered Clark to this banter."
      When not paring Dole's attacks, Clark' has been nothing but complimentary of Kerry's record, in spite of non stop attacks.
So, Mr "at least I am not French" Kerry, your scepter and crown are intact. No need to get your nose out of joint. Being called a lieutenant when you are one is not exactly an offense, unless you feel you deserve better .
 
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by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/31/2004 05:49:34 AM EST

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More vacations than people on welfare
http://www.commondreams.org/views/022300-103.htm
Senator John Kerry once joked on Imus about former governor William Weld, ''this guy takes more vacations than the people on welfare.''



Kerry's dismissal overlooked by media (#2) (Rated 5.00/1)

by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/25/2004 08:05:27 AM EST

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by caroline62 on 01/25/2004 07:18:39 AM EST
Is it just me or has the press forgotten that Kerry was the first one to diminish Clark's military service.
Kerry said on an interview after a debate in September or October that Clark was only used to taking orders from higher-ups.  I do believe there was a tart follow-up from the Clark campaign regarding Kerry's comments.
Now everyone wants to jump on Clark for calling Kerry a junior officer.  Isn't that what Kerry was?


Dissmissive of lieutenants Clark: (#1) (Rated 5.00/1)

by Robbedvoter (Robbedvoter at forclark dot com) on 01/25/2004 07:10:37 AM EST

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KING: General Clark, we have another veteran with us tonight, Senator Robert Dole. You may know Senator Dole.
CLARK: Hello, Senator.
KING: Bob, do you have a question for the General?
DOLE: No, I think, you know, it's a tough -- you indicated it's a tough business you're in. Looking at it from my perspective, it seemed to me that John Kerry is a big winner tonight, not just in Iowa but also New Hampshire. I know you can't worry about Kerry's campaign but just as an observer I think he's going to benefit a great deal in New Hampshire. Somebody has to lose. Now, of course, you don't want it to be you but I think it may be you.
CLARK: Senator, let's be honest about this thing. The American people want a change in leadership. They're looking for a candidate that can lead on all of the issues. I'm the only person in this race who has ever done foreign policy and I know all of the domestic issues, too. It's one thing to talk about it, but if you think of foreign policy it's like major league baseball. I'm the only person who has ever played it and I pitch a 95 mile an hour fastball. I've negotiated peace agreements, I've won a war. I'm prepared to help the country that's why I'm running. I'm not worried about John Kerry or anybody else.
DOLE: We're not -- we're discussing here as friends but I think just politically you just became a colonel instead of a general...
CLARK: Well, I don't think that's at all -- Senator, with all due respect, he's a lieutenant and I'm a general. You got to get your facts on this. He was a lieutenant in Vietnam. I've done all of the big leadership. I respect John Kerry and I like him but what I'm going to say it's up to the voters of New Hampshire, South Carolina, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, all across this country, and that's what democracy is about. It's your job to handicap the race. It's my job to go out here and do the best thing I can do for the United States of America and that's what I'm going to do.
 
Here's the link to the show's transcript:
 
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/19/lkl.00.html