You flat out ignored 70% of what I posted. It isn't that hard, try rereading what I posted and understand that the goverment and his biographer both say that their is more to his military record than he has released.
Where are the records from his Christmas trip? What about Sampan?
Why does wishing to have Kerry release his records make me a GOP supporter? I have the exact same view when it comes to the Cheny/Bush Energy task force.
Kerry, or Bush for that matter, isn't a god and doesn't deserve this blind following that he/they gets.
"The Kerry campaign has refused to release Kerry's personal Vietnam archive, including his journals and letters, saying that the senator is contractually bound to grant Brinkley exclusive access to the material. But Brinkley said this week the papers are the property of the senator and in his full control.
"I don't mind if John Kerry shows anybody anything," he said. "If he wants to let anybody in, that's his business. Go bug John Kerry, and leave me alone." The exclusivity agreement, he said, simply requires "that anybody quoting any of the material needs to cite my book."
By Ann Gerhart Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, August 28, 2004; Page C01
But the official records on Kerry's Web site only add to the confusion. The DD214 form, an official Defense Department document summarizing Kerry's military career posted on johnkerry.com, includes a "Silver Star with combat V."
But according to a U.S. Navy spokesman, "Kerry's record is incorrect. The Navy has never issued a 'combat V' to anyone for a Silver Star."
Naval regulations do not allow for the use of a "combat V" for the Silver Star, the third-highest decoration the Navy awards. None of the other services has ever granted a Silver Star "combat V," either.
*skip* 94 pages of records unreleased?
Reporting by the Washington Post's Michael Dobbs points out that although the Kerry campaign insists that it has released Kerry's full military records, the Post was only able to get six pages of records under its Freedom of Information Act request out of the "at least a hundred pages" a Naval Personnel Office spokesman called the "full file."
What could that more than 100 pages contain? Questions have been raised about President Bush's drill attendance in the reserves, but Bush received his honorable discharge on schedule. Kerry, who should have been discharged from the Navy about the same time -- July 1, 1972 -- wasn't given the discharge he has on his campaign Web site until July 13, 1978. What delayed the discharge for six years? This raises serious questions about Kerry's performance while in the reserves that are far more potentially damaging than those raised against Bush.
Edward W. Felten, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University Aviel D. Rubin, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University Adam Stubblefield, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University Summary
After the August 15 referendum in Venezuela on whether or not to recall president Chávez, opposition groups examined the polling data and made accusations of fraud due to statistical anomalies in the reported election results that they claim could not have occurred if the election were run fairly. However, our analysis of the same data, based on simulations, did not detect any statistical anomalies that would indicate obvious fraud in the election.
We emphasize that a lack of statistical evidence does not imply the absence of fraud. Rather, it rules out certain classes of fraud. In any case, the fraud that is alleged is not the type that we would expect a cheating government to employ. In particular, we believe that the forms of election fraud that are most likely to succeed, such as voting machines silently switching some fraction of Yes votes to No votes inside the computer, would not produce observable statistical anomalies.
Electronic voting is more susceptible to widespread fraud than less automated mechanisms. The fact that the opposition is highly suspicious of the outcome is due, in part, to the choice of electronic voting machines in a simple Yes/No election. While we did not find any statistical evidence for the claims of caps on the machines or other specific accusations of fraud, we are concerned that wide scale unobservable fraud is much easier to realize in electronic voting machines than in, for example, precinct based paper systems.
It is rather telling that you consider my posting of the words of one of the top AirAmerica hosts as idiotic.
You get pissed when the right says, what you call hateful, things. But, when your side does the exact same thing it is OK.
It is either wrong when both sides do it or it is right when both sides do it, you can not have it both ways.
You will also note that I did not defend the RNC echo chamber that most talk radio has become. Why is it that neither side can respond to criticism of their side? The two main sides just attack each other, never discussing anything important.
Last, you need to quite makeing assumptions as to what side the person you are responding to is on.
Gas Tax, Phone Luxury Tax, Property Taxes, Use Fees, Sales Taxes, Universal Service Telco Tax, State Income Taxes, City Income Taxes, County/Parish taxes, City property taxes, Bridge Fees, Automobile Registration, amoung other taxes are paid by most everyone.
You just don't want groups who you don't agree with to get a vote which isn't what the US is about. But I bet they would love you in china or cuba.
The Mode of Electing the President From the New York Packet Friday, March 14, 1788.
Author: Alexander Hamilton
To the People of the State of New York:
THE mode of appointment of the Chief Magistrate of the United States is almost the only part of the system, of any consequence, which has escaped without severe censure, or which has received the slightest mark of approbation from its opponents. The most plausible of these, who has appeared in print, has even deigned to admit that the election of the President is pretty well guarded. [1] I venture somewhat further, and hesitate not to affirm, that if the manner of it be not perfect, it is at least excellent. It unites in an eminent degree all the advantages, the union of which was to be wished for.
It was desirable that the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the person to whom so important a trust was to be confided. This end will be answered by committing the right of making it, not to any preestablished body, but to men chosen by the people for the special purpose, and at the particular conjuncture.
It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations.
It was also peculiarly desirable to afford as little opportunity as possible to tumult and disorder. This evil was not least to be dreaded in the election of a magistrate, who was to have so important an agency in the administration of the government as the President of the United States. But the precautions which have been so happily concerted in the system under consideration, promise an effectual security against this mischief. The choice of SEVERAL, to form an intermediate body of electors, will be much less apt to convulse the community with any extraordinary or violent movements, than the choice of ONE who was himself to be the final object of the public wishes. And as the electors, chosen in each State, are to assemble and vote in the State in which they are chosen, this detached and divided situation will expose them much less to heats and ferments, which might be communicated from them to the people, than if they were all to be convened at one time, in one place.
Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption. These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one quarter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union? But the convention have guarded against all danger of this sort, with the most provident and judicious attention. They have not made the appointment of the President to depend on any preexisting bodies of men, who might be tampered with beforehand to prostitute their votes; but they have referred it in the first instance to an immediate act of the people of America, to be exerted in the choice of persons for the temporary and sole purpose of making the appointment. And they have excluded from eligibility to this trust, all those who from situation might be suspected of too great devotion to the President in office. No senator, representative, or other person holding a place of trust or profit under the United States, can be of the numbers of the electors. Thus without corrupting the body of the people, the immediate agents in the election will at least enter upon the task free from any sinister bias. Their transient existence, and their detached situation, already taken noti
I suggest you research why the smaller states agreed to join the Union. It had something to do with not having their rights ran over by the more populated states.
From the web.
You can read the Federalist Papers at:http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fedpapers.ht ml for the founders' views on the Electoral College. Read Alexander Hamilton's design for the Electoral College in Federalist No. 68 and James Madison's views on the republican form of government in Federalist No. 10.
Search the writings of Thomas Jefferson for his views on the Presidency (especially, Letter to George Hay, August 17, 1823) at: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/.
Often cited reference sources:
* Walter Barns (ed.), "After the People Vote: Steps in Choosing the President, "American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1983;
* Michael J. Glennon, "When No Majority Rules: The Electoral College and Presidential Succession," Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1992;
* Pierce and Longley, "The People's President" (1981);
* William Peters, "A More Perfect Union" (1937);
* Max Ferrand, "The Framing of the Constitution" (1913, reprinted 1987).
* head of Iran/Contra investigation Nothing really happened as the result of that investigation.
* head of BCCI Investigation Few of the changes suggested made it into law.
* w/McCain - POW/MIA Vietnam investigation He helped close the major investigation. John Kerry told me in Bangkok, Thailand in the early 1990's. When we spoke of what action to take on POW's said; "We are not going to war over these people."
* Helped Normalized relations with Vietnam
NOW that is something to be proud of, he helped normalize relations with a country that just recently killed hundreds of christians because of their religion. "Hundreds of Vietnamese Christians killed at Easter -13/4/04
An estimated 400 Christians have been killed during peaceful and prayerful demonstrations by Christians in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
On Saturday 10 April up to 400,000 Vietnamese Christians, from the Degar people, gathered in several Vietnamese cities to demonstrate against the government's refusal to allow them to follow the Christian faith freely.
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* helped get 100,000 cops on the street.
And only provided funding for 3-5 years then leaving it up to the cash straped states to continue funding them.
I notive that most of those where join things, has he done anything major on his owm?
It may suprise you, but I haven't defended Bush and I can not stand Shawn 'I Wrote A Book' Hannity. Please point out where I have defended either.
And, last time I checked the Oil for Food money diversion where still being check on. Nor has france explained how modern french weapons where found in iraq.
When you have to result to calling people names it just shows how weak your argument is.
What is wrong with bush's national security record ? If kerry is going to run on his record in the Senate why did he spend so much time at the convention talking about Vietnam?
If their is nothing to hide in his records why doesn't he sign the form? Signing the form would put all the rumors to rest about his time in the military. He brought the damn thing up, and now that people have questions about it, he wants to sweep it under the rug.
By THOMAS LIPSCOMB Mr. Lipscomb, the founder of Times Books, was the publisher of Admiral Zumwalt's best-selling book, "On Watch."
Senator Kerry no longer has a problem with just the 35-year-old recollections of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that are questioning his military records. He now has to deal with the United States Navy.
Mr. Kerry's campaign Web site, which may be viewed at www.johnkerry.com, lists a Silver Star with a Combat V on his DD214. This form issued by the Department of Defense summarizes a serviceman's career. It is always signed and authenticated as accurate by the individual, in this case Mr. Kerry. But according to a Navy spokesman it is "incorrect."The Navy has never issued a Combat V at any time for the Silver Star.
This is a serious issue. The chief admiral of the Navy, Jeremy Michael Boorda, committed suicide over questions raised about his right to wear a Combat V by Newsweek magazine in 1996. Boorda stated in his suicide note to his sailors that the questions raised about those he wore caused him to take his life. And that was only a Bronze Star, not the Navy's third highest decoration.
At the time, Mr. Kerry told the Boston Globe that Boorda's conduct was "sufficient to question [Boorda's] leadership position....If you wind up being less than what you're pretending to be, there is a major confrontation with value and self-esteem and your sense of how others view you."
The Navy also questioned the listing on Mr. Kerry's Web site of a DD215 form listing four bronze campaign stars for his service in Vietnam. According to its records, the Navy credits Mr. Kerry with two campaigns.That is sufficient for the wearing of the Vietnam Service Medal for one campaign bearing one campaign star for the additional campaign -- not four.
Perhaps most puzzling of all is Mr. Kerry's display of a citation for his Star signed in 1986 by the Secretary of the Navy, John Lehman. Mr. Lehman, who recently completed his service on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, finds this "[a] total mystery. I never saw it. I never signed it. I never approved it. And the additional language it contains was not written by me."
No one knows who provided the additional flowery language concluding, "Lieutenant (jg) Kerry reflected great credit upon himself...." Well, someone certainly did.
In a statement to Fox News's Major Garrett, Kerry spokesman Michael Meehan explained that Mr. Kerry had lost the first two citations for his Silver Star and had asked the Secretary of the Navy to provide a new one. Leaving aside the unprecedented appearance of three separate Silver Star citations on Mr. Kerry's Web site all containing different language signed by three different people, this explanation makes no sense at all.
Veterans lose citations all the time.They simply ask the appropriate military records office to send them a replacement copy, and it does. There is no mystery to this standard procedure that requires the intervention of the Secretary of the Navy.
A legal watchdog group, Judicial Watch, has issued a statement, which may be read at www.judicialwatch.org, that reads, "Kerry should remove [the] Silver Star citation from his internet site pending review by [the] U.S. Navy." It raises other questions about the Web sit
Why doesn't Kerry run on his record in the Senate? Could it be that he hasn't done anything that matters in his 16+ years in the Senate?
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John Kerry's biographer today called on the presidential candidate to release his military records and warned a Navy investigation into his medals could prove to be the "death knell" of his campaign.
In the past, Kerry has said he could not release some documents because of contractual obligations to Douglas Brinkley, author of "Tour of Duty." Brinkley said he has no contractual claims to any of the papers.
"Clearly some of these military records should be made available to the press," he said on Steve Malzberg's WABC New York radio show today.
Brinkley also said that if the Navy investigation reveals deception in connection with Kerry's medals, it could be the "death knell" for Kerry's campaign. Professing uncertainty about what to make about the Swift Boat Vets' claims, Brinkley said: "Right now it's unclear. So we have to just wait to see what all this adds up to."
"Is it sloppiness, is it purposeful intent, is there an easy explanation for it?" Brinkley wondered.
The Pentagon ordered an official investigation into the awarding of five Vietnam War decorations to the Massachusetts senator.
The London Telegraph says the inquiry is being carried out by the inspector general's office of the U.S. Navy.
"It is the responsibility of all personnel to correct errors in official records," a Navy spokesman told the paper. Another official said privately: "There's a feeling that it's time to deal with this thoroughly, once and for all."
As WorldNetDaily reported last week, the Department of Defense informed Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England of a formal request to investigate alleged military code violations in Sen. John Kerry's Silver Star award.
The request was made by the public-interest group Judicial Watch after news reports revealed Kerry's campaign website displays a document listing a "Silver Star with combat 'V'" even though the combat "V" device is never given with the nation's third highest award for heroism.
Also, there are three citations for the award, with the third, issued more than a decade after the event, bearing the signature of former Navy Secretary John Lehman.
Lehman, however, says he had nothing to do with the citation.
"It is a total mystery to me," he told the Chicago Sun-Times. "I never saw it. I never signed it. I never approved it. And the additional language it contains was not written by me."
The Telegraph says Lehman endorses the investigation of Kerry's awards, stating the relevant records need to be "thoroughly researched and the facts established."
Kerry's campaign is firing back, calling the Navy probe an expensive waste.
"The facts are clear," Kerry adviser Michael Meehan told the Telegraph. "The Navy awarded John Kerry the Silver Star, a Bronze Star with Combat V and three Purple Hearts. This is a waste of taxpayers' dollars and the Pentagon's time, especially during wartime."
Though Judicial Watch is hoping for a report before the Nov. 2 presidential election, the Navy thus far is remaining silent on any timetable.
Jerome Corsi, author of "Unfit for Command," the New York Times No. 1 best-seller by Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, told WorldNetDaily he considers the Judicial Watch complaint "an important and serious investigation."
"We believe the secretary of the Navy will validate the charges we've made in 'Unfit for Command,'" he said.
In a letter responding to Judicial Watch's complaint, the inspector general of the Defense Department, John R. Crane, cited Section 8(d) of the Inspector General Act of 1978, which states "the IG of the Department of Defense shall expeditiously report suspected or alleged violations of chapter 47 of title 10, United States Code (Uniform Code of Military Justice), to the Secretary of the military department concerned or the Secretary of Defense."
No, you don't get it. When the US said the where pulling troups out of germany the local communities shit their pants as those BAD Americans pump billions into their local economy. Just one of the bases in germany causes over 20,000 jobs to exist. S Korea also is concerned about our plan to pull our troops furthur south of the DMZ due the the effect on that areas economy.
Do you get this upset about France and their helping Irag (against UN agreements) build their oil industry and buy weapons? Or is that behavior ok as long as someone other than the USA is doing it.
Every article I submit is killed (Like the one on Howards Dean's Internet ID plan)just like I no longer have mod privilages due to griping about the/. editors.
I don't see the rest of the world not accepting our aid money nor do I see them kicking our military bases off their soil. Funny how their principles go away when money is involved.
I find canada spending over 1 Billion on a gun registry to be...disturbing. Hint, the fact that the gun isn't registerd will not stop someone from killing someone else.
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WTF are you talking about?
You flat out ignored 70% of what I posted. It isn't that hard, try rereading what I posted and understand that the goverment and his biographer both say that their is more to his military record than he has released.
Where are the records from his Christmas trip?
What about Sampan?
Why does wishing to have Kerry release his records make me a GOP supporter? I have the exact same view when it comes to the Cheny/Bush Energy task force.
Kerry, or Bush for that matter, isn't a god and doesn't deserve this blind following that he/they gets.
If all the records have been released they why does he still refuse to sign FORM 180?
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What about the December spot reports? (Cambodia)
What about the January '69 spot reports? (Sampan incident)
DD214 is for only 3mos 27day?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40
"The Kerry campaign has refused to release Kerry's personal Vietnam archive, including his journals and letters, saying that the senator is contractually bound to grant Brinkley exclusive access to the material. But Brinkley said this week the papers are the property of the senator and in his full control.
"I don't mind if John Kerry shows anybody anything," he said. "If he wants to let anybody in, that's his business. Go bug John Kerry, and leave me alone." The exclusivity agreement, he said, simply requires "that anybody quoting any of the material needs to cite my book."
By Ann Gerhart Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, August 28, 2004; Page C01
http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-lips
But the official records on Kerry's Web site only add to the confusion. The DD214 form, an official Defense Department document summarizing Kerry's military career posted on johnkerry.com, includes a "Silver Star with combat V."
But according to a U.S. Navy spokesman, "Kerry's record is incorrect. The Navy has never issued a 'combat V' to anyone for a Silver Star."
Naval regulations do not allow for the use of a "combat V" for the Silver Star, the third-highest decoration the Navy awards. None of the other services has ever granted a Silver Star "combat V," either.
*skip*
94 pages of records unreleased?
Reporting by the Washington Post's Michael Dobbs points out that although the Kerry campaign insists that it has released Kerry's full military records, the Post was only able to get six pages of records under its Freedom of Information Act request out of the "at least a hundred pages" a Naval Personnel Office spokesman called the "full file."
What could that more than 100 pages contain? Questions have been raised about President Bush's drill attendance in the reserves, but Bush received his honorable discharge on schedule. Kerry, who should have been discharged from the Navy about the same time -- July 1, 1972 -- wasn't given the discharge he has on his campaign Web site until July 13, 1978. What delayed the discharge for six years? This raises serious questions about Kerry's performance while in the reserves that are far more potentially damaging than those raised against Bush.
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http://www.venezuela-referendum.com/
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Edward W. Felten, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
Aviel D. Rubin, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
Adam Stubblefield, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
Summary
After the August 15 referendum in Venezuela on whether or not to recall president Chávez, opposition groups examined the polling data and made accusations of fraud due to statistical anomalies in the reported election results that they claim could not have occurred if the election were run fairly. However, our analysis of the same data, based on simulations, did not detect any statistical anomalies that would indicate obvious fraud in the election.
We emphasize that a lack of statistical evidence does not imply the absence of fraud. Rather, it rules out certain classes of fraud. In any case, the fraud that is alleged is not the type that we would expect a cheating government to employ. In particular, we believe that the forms of election fraud that are most likely to succeed, such as voting machines silently switching some fraction of Yes votes to No votes inside the computer, would not produce observable statistical anomalies.
Electronic voting is more susceptible to widespread fraud than less automated mechanisms. The fact that the opposition is highly suspicious of the outcome is due, in part, to the choice of electronic voting machines in a simple Yes/No election. While we did not find any statistical evidence for the claims of caps on the machines or other specific accusations of fraud, we are concerned that wide scale unobservable fraud is much easier to realize in electronic voting machines than in, for example, precinct based paper systems.
It is rather telling that you consider my posting of the words of one of the top AirAmerica hosts as idiotic.
You get pissed when the right says, what you call hateful, things. But, when your side does the exact same thing it is OK.
It is either wrong when both sides do it or it is right when both sides do it, you can not have it both ways.
You will also note that I did not defend the RNC echo chamber that most talk radio has become. Why is it that neither side can respond to criticism of their side? The two main sides just attack each other, never discussing anything important.
Last, you need to quite makeing assumptions as to what side the person you are responding to is on.
Because this is a well balanced artice. Only hit pieces against those people that hit the select button hate make the front page.
Gas Tax, Phone Luxury Tax, Property Taxes, Use Fees, Sales Taxes, Universal Service Telco Tax, State Income Taxes, City Income Taxes, County/Parish taxes, City property taxes, Bridge Fees, Automobile Registration, amoung other taxes are paid by most everyone.
You just don't want groups who you don't agree with to get a vote which isn't what the US is about. But I bet they would love you in china or cuba.
Name a class of people that pay no taxes.
The Mode of Electing the President
From the New York Packet
Friday, March 14, 1788.
Author: Alexander Hamilton
To the People of the State of New York:
THE mode of appointment of the Chief Magistrate of the United States is almost the only part of the system, of any consequence, which has escaped without severe censure, or which has received the slightest mark of approbation from its opponents. The most plausible of these, who has appeared in print, has even deigned to admit that the election of the President is pretty well guarded. [1] I venture somewhat further, and hesitate not to affirm, that if the manner of it be not perfect, it is at least excellent. It unites in an eminent degree all the advantages, the union of which was to be wished for.
It was desirable that the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the person to whom so important a trust was to be confided. This end will be answered by committing the right of making it, not to any preestablished body, but to men chosen by the people for the special purpose, and at the particular conjuncture.
It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations.
It was also peculiarly desirable to afford as little opportunity as possible to tumult and disorder. This evil was not least to be dreaded in the election of a magistrate, who was to have so important an agency in the administration of the government as the President of the United States. But the precautions which have been so happily concerted in the system under consideration, promise an effectual security against this mischief. The choice of SEVERAL, to form an intermediate body of electors, will be much less apt to convulse the community with any extraordinary or violent movements, than the choice of ONE who was himself to be the final object of the public wishes. And as the electors, chosen in each State, are to assemble and vote in the State in which they are chosen, this detached and divided situation will expose them much less to heats and ferments, which might be communicated from them to the people, than if they were all to be convened at one time, in one place.
Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption. These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one quarter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union? But the convention have guarded against all danger of this sort, with the most provident and judicious attention. They have not made the appointment of the President to depend on any preexisting bodies of men, who might be tampered with beforehand to prostitute their votes; but they have referred it in the first instance to an immediate act of the people of America, to be exerted in the choice of persons for the temporary and sole purpose of making the appointment. And they have excluded from eligibility to this trust, all those who from situation might be suspected of too great devotion to the President in office. No senator, representative, or other person holding a place of trust or profit under the United States, can be of the numbers of the electors. Thus without corrupting the body of the people, the immediate agents in the election will at least enter upon the task free from any sinister bias. Their transient existence, and their detached situation, already taken noti
I suggest you research why the smaller states agreed to join the Union. It had something to do with not having their rights ran over by the more populated states.
t ml for the founders' views on the Electoral College. Read Alexander Hamilton's design for the Electoral College in Federalist No. 68 and James Madison's views on the republican form of government in Federalist No. 10.
s /.
From the web.
You can read the Federalist Papers at:http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fedpapers.h
Search the writings of Thomas Jefferson for his views on the Presidency (especially, Letter to George Hay, August 17, 1823) at: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotation
Often cited reference sources:
* Walter Barns (ed.), "After the People Vote: Steps in Choosing the President, "American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1983;
* Michael J. Glennon, "When No Majority Rules: The Electoral College and Presidential Succession," Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1992;
* Pierce and Longley, "The People's President" (1981);
* William Peters, "A More Perfect Union" (1937);
* Max Ferrand, "The Framing of the Constitution" (1913, reprinted 1987).
Why? Is the one currently on your belt going to go puff and disappear in a puff of red smoke?
* head of Iran/Contra investigation
Nothing really happened as the result of that investigation.
* head of BCCI Investigation
Few of the changes suggested made it into law.
* w/McCain - POW/MIA Vietnam investigation
He helped close the major investigation. John Kerry told me in Bangkok, Thailand in the early 1990's. When we spoke of what action to take on POW's said; "We are not going to war over these people."
* Helped Normalized relations with Vietnam
NOW that is something to be proud of, he helped normalize relations with a country that just recently killed hundreds of christians because of their religion. "Hundreds of Vietnamese Christians killed at Easter -13/4/04
An estimated 400 Christians have been killed during peaceful and prayerful demonstrations by Christians in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
On Saturday 10 April up to 400,000 Vietnamese Christians, from the Degar people, gathered in several Vietnamese cities to demonstrate against the government's refusal to allow them to follow the Christian faith freely.
"
* helped get 100,000 cops on the street.
And only provided funding for 3-5 years then leaving it up to the cash straped states to continue funding them.
I notive that most of those where join things, has he done anything major on his owm?
Then I appoligize, I guess their are still a few good mods left.
It may suprise you, but I haven't defended Bush and I can not stand Shawn 'I Wrote A Book' Hannity. Please point out where I have defended either.
And, last time I checked the Oil for Food money diversion where still being check on. Nor has france explained how modern french weapons where found in iraq.
When you have to result to calling people names it just shows how weak your argument is.
One last question, what is your view on abortion?
WTF has Kerry done. Please name 5 major things he has done in the senate, and by done I mean thinks he stated.
And why do you keep bringing bush into this? Not one have I typed the name Bush nor have I defended him.
What is wrong with bush's national security record ? If kerry is going to run on his record in the Senate why did he spend so much time at the convention talking about Vietnam?
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If their is nothing to hide in his records why doesn't he sign the form? Signing the form would put all the rumors to rest about his time in the military. He brought the damn thing up, and now that people have questions about it, he wants to sweep it under the rug.
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Kerry's Bit Of Colored Ribbon
By THOMAS LIPSCOMB Mr. Lipscomb, the founder of Times Books, was the publisher of Admiral Zumwalt's best-selling book, "On Watch."
Senator Kerry no longer has a problem with just the 35-year-old recollections of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that are questioning his military records. He now has to deal with the United States Navy.
Mr. Kerry's campaign Web site, which may be viewed at www.johnkerry.com, lists a Silver Star with a Combat V on his DD214. This form issued by the Department of Defense summarizes a serviceman's career. It is always signed and authenticated as accurate by the individual, in this case Mr. Kerry. But according to a Navy spokesman it is "incorrect."The Navy has never issued a Combat V at any time for the Silver Star.
This is a serious issue. The chief admiral of the Navy, Jeremy Michael Boorda, committed suicide over questions raised about his right to wear a Combat V by Newsweek magazine in 1996. Boorda stated in his suicide note to his sailors that the questions raised about those he wore caused him to take his life. And that was only a Bronze Star, not the Navy's third highest decoration.
At the time, Mr. Kerry told the Boston Globe that Boorda's conduct was "sufficient to question [Boorda's] leadership position....If you wind up being less than what you're pretending to be, there is a major confrontation with value and self-esteem and your sense of how others view you."
The Navy also questioned the listing on Mr. Kerry's Web site of a DD215 form listing four bronze campaign stars for his service in Vietnam. According to its records, the Navy credits Mr. Kerry with two campaigns.That is sufficient for the wearing of the Vietnam Service Medal for one campaign bearing one campaign star for the additional campaign -- not four.
Perhaps most puzzling of all is Mr. Kerry's display of a citation for his Star signed in 1986 by the Secretary of the Navy, John Lehman. Mr. Lehman, who recently completed his service on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, finds this "[a] total mystery. I never saw it. I never signed it. I never approved it. And the additional language it contains was not written by me."
No one knows who provided the additional flowery language concluding, "Lieutenant (jg) Kerry reflected great credit upon himself...." Well, someone certainly did.
In a statement to Fox News's Major Garrett, Kerry spokesman Michael Meehan explained that Mr. Kerry had lost the first two citations for his Silver Star and had asked the Secretary of the Navy to provide a new one. Leaving aside the unprecedented appearance of three separate Silver Star citations on Mr. Kerry's Web site all containing different language signed by three different people, this explanation makes no sense at all.
Veterans lose citations all the time.They simply ask the appropriate military records office to send them a replacement copy, and it does. There is no mystery to this standard procedure that requires the intervention of the Secretary of the Navy.
A legal watchdog group, Judicial Watch, has issued a statement, which may be read at www.judicialwatch.org, that reads, "Kerry should remove [the] Silver Star citation from his internet site pending review by [the] U.S. Navy." It raises other questions about the Web sit
k5 is worse, I get tied of defending my use of the word American against the idiots who think that USian is a word. ;->
This is a two part response.
Why doesn't Kerry run on his record in the Senate? Could it be that he hasn't done anything that matters in his 16+ years in the Senate?
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John Kerry's biographer today called on the presidential candidate to release his military records and warned a Navy investigation into his medals could prove to be the "death knell" of his campaign.
In the past, Kerry has said he could not release some documents because of contractual obligations to Douglas Brinkley, author of "Tour of Duty." Brinkley said he has no contractual claims to any of the papers.
"Clearly some of these military records should be made available to the press," he said on Steve Malzberg's WABC New York radio show today.
Brinkley also said that if the Navy investigation reveals deception in connection with Kerry's medals, it could be the "death knell" for Kerry's campaign. Professing uncertainty about what to make about the Swift Boat Vets' claims, Brinkley said: "Right now it's unclear. So we have to just wait to see what all this adds up to."
"Is it sloppiness, is it purposeful intent, is there an easy explanation for it?" Brinkley wondered.
The Pentagon ordered an official investigation into the awarding of five Vietnam War decorations to the Massachusetts senator.
The London Telegraph says the inquiry is being carried out by the inspector general's office of the U.S. Navy.
"It is the responsibility of all personnel to correct errors in official records," a Navy spokesman told the paper. Another official said privately: "There's a feeling that it's time to deal with this thoroughly, once and for all."
As WorldNetDaily reported last week, the Department of Defense informed Secretary of the Navy Gordon R. England of a formal request to investigate alleged military code violations in Sen. John Kerry's Silver Star award.
The request was made by the public-interest group Judicial Watch after news reports revealed Kerry's campaign website displays a document listing a "Silver Star with combat 'V'" even though the combat "V" device is never given with the nation's third highest award for heroism.
Also, there are three citations for the award, with the third, issued more than a decade after the event, bearing the signature of former Navy Secretary John Lehman.
Lehman, however, says he had nothing to do with the citation.
"It is a total mystery to me," he told the Chicago Sun-Times. "I never saw it. I never signed it. I never approved it. And the additional language it contains was not written by me."
The Telegraph says Lehman endorses the investigation of Kerry's awards, stating the relevant records need to be "thoroughly researched and the facts established."
Kerry's campaign is firing back, calling the Navy probe an expensive waste.
"The facts are clear," Kerry adviser Michael Meehan told the Telegraph. "The Navy awarded John Kerry the Silver Star, a Bronze Star with Combat V and three Purple Hearts. This is a waste of taxpayers' dollars and the Pentagon's time, especially during wartime."
Though Judicial Watch is hoping for a report before the Nov. 2 presidential election, the Navy thus far is remaining silent on any timetable.
Jerome Corsi, author of "Unfit for Command," the New York Times No. 1 best-seller by Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, told WorldNetDaily he considers the Judicial Watch complaint "an important and serious investigation."
"We believe the secretary of the Navy will validate the charges we've made in 'Unfit for Command,'" he said.
In a letter responding to Judicial Watch's complaint, the inspector general of the Defense Department, John R. Crane, cited Section 8(d) of the Inspector General Act of 1978, which states "the IG of the Department of Defense shall expeditiously report suspected or alleged violations of chapter 47 of title 10, United States Code (Uniform Code of Military Justice), to the Secretary of the military department concerned or the Secretary of Defense."
No, you don't get it. When the US said the where pulling troups out of germany the local communities shit their pants as those BAD Americans pump billions into their local economy. Just one of the bases in germany causes over 20,000 jobs to exist. S Korea also is concerned about our plan to pull our troops furthur south of the DMZ due the the effect on that areas economy.
Do you get this upset about France and their helping Irag (against UN agreements) build their oil industry and buy weapons? Or is that behavior ok as long as someone other than the USA is doing it.
Every article I submit is killed (Like the one on Howards Dean's Internet ID plan)just like I no longer have mod privilages due to griping about the /. editors.
I don't see the rest of the world not accepting our aid money nor do I see them kicking our military bases off their soil. Funny how their principles go away when money is involved.
Why won't Kerry sign a Form 180 to make all his military records public?
What is he trying to hide? After all, he is the one who has been running on his military record.
On the topics of politics.slashdot.org, why isn't it more balanced and why aren't real political matters being covered?
What does damn near 24/7 coverage of trials have to do with the GOP?
...*FOX NEWS ALERT*... MJackson has driven to the grocery store!...Cue COMMERICAL.
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As we cover the nuclear attack on
I find canada spending over 1 Billion on a gun registry to be...disturbing. Hint, the fact that the gun isn't registerd will not stop someone from killing someone else.
It also looks kind of like a higly graphical CDE 'task/whatever it's called bar'.