The Weekly Standard [1] has some interesting points up this morning:
Says the Standard’s Michial Goldfarb:
“JOHN KERRY, in his grand effort to be all things to all people, has spent the last few weeks trying to convince people that he, too, is a sports junkie, a hardcore Red Sox fan, and devotee of the NFL.”
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On October 25, 1986, the Boston Red Sox were facing off against the New York Mets in the sixth game of the World Series. With a three games to two lead over the Mets, the Sox had an opportunity, at long last, to bring a championship to a city which hadn’t known victory since 1918. After blowing a two-run lead in the bottom of the 10th inning, first-baseman Bill Buckner let a ground-ball skip through his legs, and thus allowed the Mets Ray Knight to score the game’s winning run. This infamous error was witnessed by none other than John Kerry, who on numerous occasions has claimed to have been seated at Shea Stadium that night, at a distance of no more than 30 yards from Brukner.”
Problem, if course for Kerry now is it’s been revealed he wasn’t there, as the story goes on to relate.
This, after claiming that Eddie Yost was his favorite Red Sox Player. You guessed it, Yost never played for the Red Sox.
Kerry tried to pitch himself as a truth teller… A most honest individual.
Perhaps with these revelations, we now have a better idea of how it is we have Bill Clinton stumping for Kerry… Clinton, you’ll recall told us he’d not had sex with ‘that woman’, and told us he remembered churches being burned, etc, etc, etc.
It gets better.
Boortz [2] points out something this morning that Fox was all over earlier this weekend….
“Remember Christmas in Cambodia? The ribbons and the medals? The Kennedy conversation with de Gaulle I just told you about? Well now we have another classic from The Poodle, but this time we have witnesses. Since you won’t hear much about this from the mainstream media, I’ll regale you with the latest whopper from The Soufflé.
In the second presidential debate, Senator Kerry said about Iraq: “This president hasn’t listened. I went to meet with the members of the Security Council in the week before we voted. I went to New York. I talked to all of them, to find out how serious they were about really holding Saddam Hussein accountable.” Boy, that Kerry is really on the case…going to the UN and all. But wait!
John Kerry never went to the United Nations in the week before he voted to give President Bush the authority to invade Iraq. In fact, an investigation by the Washington Times reveals that of the 5 ambassadors on the Security Council in 2002, four said they have never met The Poodle. On top of that, a couple say they remember the time well, and would have remembered meeting Kerry. In other words, he lied. John Kerry made it up. Once again, the compulsive liar has lied again to try and impress the voters. “
Does John Kerry EVER tell the truth?
Update: Joel Mowbray in this morning’s WaTi [3] confirms the Security Council bit:
“U.N. ambassadors from several nations are disputing assertions by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry that he met for hours with all members of the U.N. Security Council just a week before voting in October 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq.
An investigation by The Washington Times reveals that while the candidate did talk for an unspecified period to at least a few members of the panel, no such meeting, as described by Mr. Kerry on a number of occasions over the past year, ever occurred. “
Turns out, that the only Security Council members Kerry DID meet with, were, not suprisingly, the French Ambassador, Jean-David Levitte, and Jeremy Greenstock of the UK. Grenstock, for those not up on politics in the UK is not exactly considered a Tony Blair supporter.