Your thoughts on John Kerry

Well let me see here, you have said it is not true but provided nothing to show me such.

Ummm I didn't say that Heinz was the family business of John & Mrs. Kerry

But look at H.J. Heinz & Co., the family business of Kerry and his wife, Teresa.

The question remains whether John Glassman's information or Snopes information is the most accurate here.

Snopes never posts its sources and does screw one up now and then though they are generally reliable.

Sources:
Ackman, Dan. "Kerry Would Be Third-Richest U.S. President."
Forbes. 13 February 2004.

Lindeman, Teresa F. "Online World Wonders: If Kerry Wins, Will Heinz Benefit?"
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 10 February 2004.

Schoenberger, Karl. "Offshoring Jobs a Hot Topic."
San Jose Mercury News. 5 February 2004.

Senator John McCain came to the defense of a fellow Vietnam War veteran, Senator John Kerry, on Friday by attacking the credibility of a North Carolina veteran who has dedicated himself to defeating Mr. Kerry in his campaign for president.

Mr. McCain, an Arizona Republican, called the man, Ted Sampley, "one of the most despicable people I have ever had the misfortune to encounter."

Mr. Sampley, a businessman from Kinston, N.C., has gained some attention in recent days for operating a Web site devoted to attacking Mr. Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, for his opposition to the war in Vietnam after his military service. The Web site, www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com, includes pictures from the 1970's showing Mr. Kerry at antiwar protests. One shows Mr. Kerry at a rally, sitting several rows behind Jane Fonda, who was so outspoken against the war that she was labeled a Communist by her political opponents.

In response to Mr. McCain's remarks about him, Mr. Sampley said in a telephone interview: "It's not the first time he said that. That's his opinion. It's unbecoming of a senator to say things like that, but I'm fair game just like he is."

In 1993, Mr. Sampley was convicted of misdemeanor assault and sentenced to 180 days' probation for attacking a legislative aide to Mr. McCain.

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LOL! Snopes always posts their sources. You are grasping at straws. Look at the bottom of the page. Their sources are listed as they always are. I'll quote them for you:

Kennedy: Kerry's Actions Prove Iraq is Bush's Vietnam

(2004-04-05) -- In a major policy address at the Brookings Institution today Senator Edward M. Kennedy said that Democrat presidential candidate John Forbes Kerry's actions prove that "Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam."

"The parallels between Vietnam and Iraq are stunning when seen through the actions of one man who lived through both eras," said Mr. Kennedy. "Thirty-some years ago John Kerry fought in Vietnam, then later protested U.S. involvement in Vietnam. In October 2002, John Kerry voted to support war against Iraq, then later protested U.S. involvement in Iraq. Clearly, Kerry's actions and public statements demonstrate that Iraq has become a quagmire for Bush."

White House spokesman Scott McClellan responded to Mr. Kennedy's remarks by saying, "Ted Kennedy is John Kerry's Chappaquiddick."

HISTORIAN: NAVY COMMANDERS TO CAST DOUBT ON KERRY'S WAR RECORD

-- Never Spent A Day In Hospital For Self-Reported Wounds!



With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Several Navy officers who supervised Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry when he commanded a swift boat in Vietnam are preparing to publicly question his war record -- including the circumstances under which he was awarded three Purple Hearts -- a noted Vietnam War historian revealed this past weekend.

Burkett, whose book, "Stolen Valor," is considered to be the definitive history of falsified Vietnam War claims, told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg that Kerry's former commanders would allege that the top Democrat's Purple Hearts were awarded for "self-reported injuries that were virtually nonexistent." Burkett's book was among the first to expose many of the phony claims made by John Kerry about U.S. war atrocities. In "Stolen Valor" Burkett also revealed that Kerry did not discard his war medals, as he claimed in the 1970s.

"He never got a day of treatment, he never spent a day in a medical facility," Burkett said, commenting on Kerry's "wounds."

"These were all self-reported wounds, which you're going to hear from some swift boat guys in the future as to the nature of those wounds." Burkett said he had personally spoken to the Navy commanders who were preparing to go public about Kerry's decorations.

"You're going to get quite a showing [of those speaking out]," Burkett told Malzberg. "I don't know [the number] yet. They're trying to get it to be unanimous of every swift boat guy who ever served."

As to the timetable for the upcoming revelations, Burkett said that Kerry's superior officers "were still discussing that." "You've got some major rallies being planned against John Kerry by Vietnam veterans on the mall, at the convention -- this type of thing," he said. "And we're going to make America aware of John Kerry's military record."

Reproduced with the permission of NewsMax.com. Copyright 2004. All rights reserved.

You mean Snopes' sources are magazine and newspaper articles? Well shoot. I can post a half dozen newspaper and magazine artciles that directly contradict Snopes' sources then.

So where does that leave us?

Yeah, so? A couple of mean-spirited attacks proves what?
Answer: Nothing!
But play again soon.

Sorry, it's late and my sarcasm is showing.
Although you asked for it!
Goodnight.