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Investment or just movie biz?
The Federal Election Commission decided yesterday not to issue an advisory opinion on a request by Sen. John Kerry to use $300,000 of his campaign funds to help finance a documentary about injured veterans from the Iraq War. The question came down to whether the money would be seen as an investment, which is allowed, or operating capital for a business, which is not a permitted use of campaign dollars.
Kerry’s attorney said that he did not know whether the senator would proceed with his movie plans without the FEC’s blessing.
Of course, the other day, the senator from Massachusetts seemed to be leaning toward another entertainment genre—trying his hand at a bit of political humor, a la a particular late-night TV talk show host who’s been in the news lately. “Too bad,’’ Kerry said in reference to the Mark Sanford saga, the day before the governor’s admission of an affair, “if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin.’’
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I know of a senator most of us wouldn’t miss very much.
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Boy, are they afraid of her.
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There are probably many US Senators and Congressmen who could go AWOL right now and our country would be the better for it.
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Ooooooo…
I detect a hint of sour grapes- and a sourpuss. Kerry has never been as dynamic and compelling a figure as Sarah.
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KBells: No we’re not. But keep on thinking that.
I hope she becomes the candidate in 2012.
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Me too, Steve, but for opposite reasons. I just hope that we’re not a communist country by then.
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Boy, are they afraid of her.
No. But we do hate her. I do hope they lay off though. If they wreck for the public to early we won’t get to watch the GOP primary turn into a giant cluster…(can’t say that)!
So they can make investments but not provide start up for a business ? Seems like restricting spending and the status of the company making the film would be important. So does the company making the documentary already exist? And I presume it’s possible to write a contract that forbids a company from using funds to pay business fees not connected to making the movie like association dues and incorporation legal fees?
I am a little disappointed with the FEC though. With so many campaign financing scandals breaking they should issue preliminary opinions when politicians go out of their way to double check themselves. Props to Kerry. In this case, I would be tempted to go ahead with it, and take whatever contractual steps I could to spell out the it’s investment, not start-up, money. If a complaint gets filed with the FEC later, he can always say he asked them for an opinion to begin with and they passed the buck. Is it reasonably and investment v. start-up money? I think he could make that case.
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Kerry is just jealous that once his presidential run came to an end, he was out of the spotlight. Meanwhile, the VP candidate from the losing ticket still gets attention (from Kerry’s people). To quote a joke from the 2004 campaign, “Why the long face, Senator Kerry?”
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Mynock-
“hate” is such a strong emotion.
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KBells, SteveG may be partially correct that they don’t fear Sarah Palin. But the only explanation left, then, is sheer unmitigated hatred for her by leading elected Democrats.
That Kerry quip is beyond unacceptable. But leading elected Democrats can hate women and be as misogynist as they please and be rewarded for their hatred (case-in-point: Al Franken.
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#7, “No. But we do hate her.”
Is anyone else on this blog astonished by this rare (in my view) glimpse of honesty from an apparent leftist participant on this blog? This helps me to know how to handle it when hateful comments come to conservatives like me on this blog.
There is no call for hating Gov. Palin. But leftists can do so with impunity in this current culture. Remember how Judge Bork was treated simply for his views (he never did ANYthing scandalous whatsoever). Some leftists actually have demonized conservatives so much in their minds that it often seems as though they presume their hatred is actually a virtue and not a vice.
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Joel Mark,
No, I am not astonished at all.
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Joel, I love the way you can extrapolate a single comment by one individual to tar all Liberals. One Liberal says something that fits your stereotype, so he must be the rare honest liberal. Give me a break.
When recently asked if she was a leader of the Republican Party she said “No, absolutely not necessarily”. She’s an Idiot whose support illustrates the pitiful state of the Republican Party and their conservative base. If she’s ridiculed excessively it’s only because the majority of people realize what a danger it would be to have this moron in charge of the country. Remember the Debate when she said “it doesn’t matter what caused global warming, it’s what we’re going to do about it that matters.” That’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard an aspiring national leader say. Sarah Palin deserves all the ridicule and disrespect that can be heaped upon them because to show respect in this case would lend legitimacy to her dangerous and wrong Ideas.
Liberals don’t fear Palin beating Obama in 2012, far from it. What they fear is the image of America under the rule of a religious fanatic moron.
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“She’s an Idiot whose support illustrates the pitiful state of the Republican Party and their conservative base.”
wooo…..
I’m underwhelmed by your candor.
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That’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard an aspiring national leader say.
I think you forgot these:
“It is just wonderful to be back in Oregon. And over the last 15 months we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states; I think one left to go.”
“Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s.”
“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” (The tornado killed 12 people).
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When y’all quit slobbering over your Obamessiah, you’ll notice (or NOT) he’s just a man like any other man… and makes mistakes, and says stupid things, does stupid things, and has stupid ideas…
If you don’t notice, then by all means, continue in your denial. We’ll take you to the cleaners next election.
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KWatson, “Joel, I love the way you can extrapolate a single comment by one individual to tar all Liberals.”
Huh? It’s not just one comment, KWatson. In addition to MYNOCK’s hateful comment, look also at the hateful comment by MA senator Kerry (an elected Democrat leader and past Democrat Presidential candidate).
Here are a few other hateful comments by prominent liberal leaders talking about conservatives, Republicans or the military.
* Howard Dean, former Vermont Governor and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said, “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for” (January 30, 2005).
* The #2 Democrat in the Senate, Richard Durbin, compared American fighters to “Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime—Pol Pot or others—that had no concern for human beings.”
* Senator Ted Kennedy suggested G.I.s torture like Saddam Hussein.
* Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, described the difference between Republicans and Democrats this way: “In contradistinction to Republicans, we [Democrats] don’t want children to go to bed hungry at night.”
* MoveOn.org (a powerful organization that supports liberals & liberalism) placed a full-page ad in the NYT soon after General David Petraeus took charge in Iraq, which accused Petraeus of “cooking the books for the White House,” called him “a military man constantly at war with the facts,” and said he “is likely to become ‘General Betray Us.’” Democrat leaders refused to condemn the ad. Hillary Clinton, intimated that Petraeus a liar when she told him, “I think that the reports that you provide to us really require a willing suspension of disbelief.”
* Hillary Clinton spoke at Al Sharpton’s MLK Day event in New York on Jan. 16, 2006 and compared Republican members of Congress to slave holders. She used a day dedicated to racial reconciliation to tell black Americans that her political opponents were leading like slave masters.
* Senator Harry Reid (majority leader) used a talk at a high school to call our President “a loser.” Reid also later claimed that the war in Iraq is lost, even as our boy’s still had boots on the ground in harm’s way. That encouragted the enemy emensely.
* NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, during a speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina, compared Republicans to Nazis. He said, “The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side…”
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KWatson, can you think of any similar statements uttered by prominent or elected Republican or conservative leaders toward liberal Democrats or others? Perhaps you can. I am just asking.
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KWatson, you are a good example yourself of hateful comments:
KWatson wrote above (of Palin); “She’s an Idiot whose support illustrates the pitiful state of the Republican Party and their conservative base.”
Name-calling like that is hateful. You also called her a “moron,” twice for non-goodness sake!!!
Just more hate. The examples abound, KWatson and your comments are among the worst in my view. Your comments drip with disdain and disrespect.
You wrote, “Give me a break.” Why don’t your give yourself a break? You need one, in my view.
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“KWatson, can you think of any similar statements uttered by prominent or elected Republican or conservative leaders toward liberal Democrats or others? Perhaps you can. I am just asking.”
In recent memory I can think of hundreds if not thousands of like comments toward Sarah Palin and George Bush by our resident liberals in the past 2 years…. And that’s just on WMB. It doesn’t count comments by public figures… If the fairly mild WMB is any indication of comments by mainstream liberals, I shudder to think what’s been said…
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Hateful comment.
One size fits all.
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Moron, as in notably stupid or lacking in good judgment, is an apt description of Sarah Palin. I don’t hate her, she’s just a moron. I vehemently oppose her because she has moronic ideas. She has all the intelligence and sophistication of some 12 year olds I know. She is an ignorant anti-intellectual who would do great harm to this country.
Palin in 2012!!
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KBells, SteveG may be partially correct that they don’t fear Sarah Palin. But the only explanation left, then, is sheer unmitigated hatred for her by leading elected Democrats.
No, it’s not that either.
If anything, it’s our utter amazement that anyone actually believes she would be a good president. She’s not a moron, but neither is she smart enough to be president. This is not an insult of any sort … I’m not smart enough to be president either, nor are about 95 percent of Americans.
I do not fear her … if she’s the nominee in 2012, Obama would carry 49 states, maybe all 50. I do not hate her either … I think she’s personally likable, and even though I disagree with a lot of her positions, I have nothing against her.
Mostly, I’m amused at the worshipful attitude some conservatives have toward her. This may explain to an extent the ridiculous “Obamamessiah” rhetoric some of you use … projection.
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Or perhaps, SteveG, it just shows that both sides like new, shiny, young, good-looking politicians?
The “Obamamessiah” rhetoric, and the admiration/adoration/whatever-you-want-to-call-it from Obama’s fans, that caused the use of that rhetoric by his opponents, began before Palin’s selection as VP nominee.
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I do not hate Joel Mark. I have no reason to believe that Joel Mark hates me either.
We will sign a peace treaty on Monday.
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If anything, it’s our utter amazement that anyone actually believes she [Sarah Palin] would be a good president. She’s not a moron, but neither is she smart enough to be president. This is not an insult of any sort … I’m not smart enough to be president either, nor are about 95 percent of Americans.
This is a very sensible statement. As Karen O (another sensible person) has pointed out, we tend to describe people we agree with as “sensible.”
both sides like new, shiny, young, good-looking politicians”
This is sensible also, though not quite as sensible. For one thing, it does not account for the popularity of Ronald Reagan, who was good-looking, perhaps shiny, and youthful in demeanor and vitality, but hardly “young” in years.
If Matt had added something about old age and treachery, he would rank higher on the sensible list. By the way, how old are you, Matt?
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Sarah Palin, as a candidate, was far more experienced and more qualified than Barack Hussein Obama. She also actually means what she says.
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Random: I’m 23, almost 24.
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Palin visits Alaskan soldiers in Kosovo.
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Thank you, Matt. You might make a good candidate for President one of these days. I remember when the Democrats seemed to be in free fall. Now the Republicans seem to be in free fall despite all the bleating about the sky is not falling. However, the “wheel of fortune” will turn again and bright young conservatives will have their upswing.
However, one thing to take seriously is that candidates for public office now live under a microscope. It is not too early for you to start living as every action, word, and even thought is being recorded. Jesus may forgive you your sins, but the American public and news media will not.
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