Former Senator Kerrey to help Kerry Presidential Campaign

Feanorcurufinwe

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Thu Jan-15-04 11:55 PM
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Former Senator Kerrey to help Kerry Presidential Campaign

Vietnam veteran and former U-S Senator Bob Kerrey is campaigning in Iowa for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

Kerrey is a Congressional Medal of Honor winner and a former member of the elite Navy SEAL team. He will join the John Kerry campaign tonight in the Council Bluffs area.

Bob Kerrey served Nebraska in the U-S Senate for 12 years and he was the state's governor for four years.

John Kerry also served in Vietnam and has been trying to gain support from Iowa's 292-thousand armed forces veterans.
http://www.kcrg.com/article.aspx?art_id=74206&cat_id=123

Kerry, Kerrey, Kerry, Kerrey... I just hope the folks in the the crowds don't get confused about who's running for what, lol

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Clark4VotingRights

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Thu Jan-15-04 11:58 PM
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1. Oh! I thought it was a typo. Well, good for Kerr(e)y

Perhaps they should go by first names on this one occasion.

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adadem

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Fri Jan-16-04 12:01 AM
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2. Great news

I've always like Bob Kerrey...almost as much as John Kerry! Wouldn't it be a hoot if JK won the nomination and asked BK to run with him as VP. Kerry/Kerrey 2004. That would be pretty funny.

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JI7

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Fri Jan-16-04 12:28 AM
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4. i have been for that

because i just like the sound of it. but bob kerrey seems like a pretty good guy also. a senator from NEBRASKA who voted against defense of marriage act. how many times will we see something like that ? and i'm sure most know that john kerry also voted against it.

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lcordero

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Fri Jan-16-04 12:12 AM
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3. I take it that Kerry is now looking for the war monger vote

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/dec2003/kerr-d12.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_for_the_Liberation_of_Iraq

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DemOutWest

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Fri Jan-16-04 12:32 AM
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5. No

but Ted Kennedy will do. As will Robert Kennedy, Jr. Come on, join in the fun.

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sandnsea

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Fri Jan-16-04 02:20 AM
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10. Yep, Carole King is the warmonger vote

Good lord.

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Maddy McCall

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Fri Jan-16-04 02:22 AM
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12. Oh the vision of that...

LOL!

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oasis

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Fri Jan-16-04 01:55 AM
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6. Kerrey joins in coming down the stretch. A midwesterner w/military creds.

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sleipnir

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Fri Jan-16-04 02:13 AM
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7. Isn't Kerrey a suspected war criminal???

Didn't he committ war crimes in Vietnam? I'm almost certain that a whitewash committee let him off, but his men said that he was a war criminal, tried and true. Correct me if I'm, wrong, but why would a generally anti-war candidate accept the support from a person who is known to have committed crimes against humanity?

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sandnsea

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Fri Jan-16-04 02:18 AM
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9. Vietnam was a shithole

Get off of it. That war is over. All wars are horrible. There is no glory in war, any war. They both know it. I have absolutely no idea what drives people to villify others over circumstances they have absolutely not the foggiest clue about.

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Maddy McCall

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Fri Jan-16-04 02:24 AM
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13. Why don't you do a little reading on the topic...

there are many sources on the internet.

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oasis

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Fri Jan-16-04 02:21 AM
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11. An overwhelming majority of Americans honor our military. They also vote.

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