| Friend --
It's easy to look at the attacks, smears, and lies being told about President Obama and his record and say, "Come on, that's ridiculous. No one could possibly believe that."
Trust me: You and I learned the hard way eight years ago this August that in the new world we're living in -- one with 24-hour news cycles, the internet, blogs, the echo chamber, and now the new Citizens United-fueled Republican money machine -- even completely baseless attacks can stick if people don't call them out quickly enough. No matter how self-evidently false the attacks are, or how disreputable the people telling them may be, there's no attack that can't take hold.
Seeing the new outrageous attacks made against President Obama from a shadowy Republican-allied veterans group called OPSEC, which take issue with the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, remind me all too well of the notorious "Swift Boat" attacks I faced in the 2004 campaign. I honor and appreciate the service of my fellow veterans, but a false attack is a false attack -- no matter who's making it.
It's not enough to wish them away or dismiss them because they come in part from "birthers" who still won't concede that President Obama was born here in the United States.
No, we need to get moving now -- before it's too late.
Take a look at this blog post that fact-checks these most recent smears, and be sure to share it with others: Throughout this campaign, Mitt Romney and his allies have shown that if the truth isn't favorable to them, they have no problem claiming the opposite -- and the reality is that President Obama has a foreign policy record that is among the strongest in recent memory.
In 2008, then-Senator Obama said he'd end the war in Iraq in a responsible way and refocus on taking out Al Qaeda's leaders.
You and I know he's followed through in a big way on both those promises.
In contrast, the Republicans have a candidate with absolutely no foreign policy experience, who thinks Russia is our "number one geopolitical foe" and who is advised by people who think -- and have repeatedly said -- the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia are countries that still exist. Romney's two major foreign policy speeches never even mentioned Al Qaeda once, and he's prone to stumbles when he steps onto the foreign policy stage. (He can't even manage to visit London without causing an international incident!)
Faced with all this, it shouldn't be a surprise that Romney and his allies are resorting to the same national security smear tactics I faced in 2004. We have to take it seriously. Forward this email to your friends, and encourage them to join us on the Truth Team today: Thanks for fighting back -- forewarned is forearmed!
John
Senator John Kerry
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twit! traitor! b.s. artist!
Could this be the same JFK who won 3 or 4 Purple Hearts in a VERY dubious manner in Vietnam " like self inflicted scratches" !!! He then had a video made of himself looking gung ho . What a guy !! Upon returning to the states he spoke
out against the war with Hanoi Jane who together threw fellow American Servicemen under the bus calling them baby killers
This complete fraud then becomes a US Senator , marries into money , and now disparages former comrades " Swift Boaters"
calling them liars . Many who were too young to remember Kerrys disgraceful behavior today vote for this traitorus fraud .
What a country !!
John, This Is truly their postal Career, allow them to both step into the `` Latrine and lock it Tight..!! All you sharp-shooter's on your drive-by are welcome to put some Air-holes , as we know what's getting the smell in the air..!! Salute~~Ron
>>> WONDERFUL IDEA .
I have never read a bigger crock of Sh*t than what this America hatting commie has to say.
Ya obama has a great foreign policy, that is if your an muslim looking to abolish the U.S. Constitution and instill Is-slime.
Scary Kerry has never told the truth in his life......
>>> AMERICAN ADVOCATE / MAKAHAYAN HAS SENT A SCATHING LETTER TO THE TRAITOR JOHN QUEERY
RAKING HIM OVER THE COALS AS A DISGRACE TO THE AMERICAN IDEAL . THE BITCH IN THE SAME PICTURE
EXPOSED HERSELF AS A TRAITOR LONG AGO , AND THAT IS HOW SHE GOT THE NAME " HANOI JANE ".
so easy to say that Obama has " a foreign policy record that is among the strongest in recent memory." is that the same one where Obama used American troops and equipment to do the work for the Muslim Brotherhood in the "Arab Spring" expansion of the Brotherhoods area of operations? or How Obama has placed them inside of our Homeland Security and the White House and the office of the Secretary of State. Saying that Obama has a foreign policy record is like claiming that Kerry is a hero and not a two faced con man
I am a native of Massachusetts and that makes that duplicitous piece of inhuman excrement, John Kerry my senior Senator, but I have no use for him. Shortly before his return from Vietnam after four controversy filled and dishonorable months of "Service," I saw him run fom our support in a recon in force along a river in Vietnam with the 199th Light Infantry Brigade. There were four Swiftboats assigned as cover and we were ambushed but three of those boats went in with their ordinance going full force, M-60's, 50 cal and deck mortars in support of our defensive positions. At the time , I did not know who commanded that boat that ran but I NEVER forgot the serial number on the hull, PCF-94. In 2004 ,in the book Unfit For Command, Jerome Corsi and Kerry's replacement, John O'Neill write of the incident and that is How I learned of it. Not even his crewmates have much use for him and if you would know just how totally despicable and without honor or accountability this cretin is, I suggest you read the book and think of how he is in any way different from the current occupant of the White House in so far as honor, integrity or patriotism is concerned. They are BOTH, by their actions and the violations of the oath WE all took but honored, domestic enemies of the Constitution and of American citizens and our way and quality of life. That is how I see it and it pains me that Congress is complicit in ALLOWING the destruction of all we fought to defend and uphold. We can only hope America wakes up and removes the ongoing threat from power for if it does not, there are very bad times indeed, ahead for us all but if we then fail in opposition, for our progeny, as well.,We CANNOT let that happen!
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