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Once
Again, The Perpetrators
Accuse Their Opponent
EDITORIAL
Frank Salvato
August 13, 2003 |
Maybe it was working all those years as Ted
Kennedy’s chief of staff but it would seem that the truth doesn’t matter
much to Mary Beth Cahill. Cahill, the Kerry campaign’s chief of staff – gee
I wonder how she got that job – recently accused the Bush campaign of
launching a "vicious smear attack against John Kerry.” Of course, this is in
comparison to the senator’s "demure” attitude toward the president during
his own presidential campaign.
The issue at hand is the ad being run by the Swift Boat Veterans for the
Truth (SBVT). Cahill, as do many of the others in the Kerry crowd, believes
whole-heartedly that the Bush team is behind the Swift Boat veteran’s
organization. They believe the Bush campaign is the driving force behind the
ad because the Swift Boat veterans are, "led by a longtime Republican
operative and financed by GOP contributors with strong tries to President
George W. Bush." But to make this assertion based on those facts only opens
up the door of hypocrisy for Cahill and her cohorts, a door that should be
made revolving for their convenience.
For the record, the Bush campaign has repeatedly stated they have nothing to
do with SBVT, a 527 group. They have repeatedly stated they do not question
John Kerry’s military service and have requested that all 527 groups cease
their activities this election cycle so that the two contenders can focus on
the issues. Not surprisingly, Cahill conveniently ignores the Bush
campaign’s denials – obviously chomping at the bit to call President Bush a
liar once again – and absolutely overlooks any possibility of calling off
the "independent” 527 groups that support John Kerry.
The larger outrage here is being overlooked completely, not only by the
press but by the American people as well. Here we have Cahill, someone who
is no stranger to calling someone a liar without proof – her former boss
does it all the time – accusing the Bush campaign of not only being behind
the Swift Boat veteran’s ad but of breaking the McCain-Feingold campaign
finance reform law by doing so. In the face of the Bush campaign’s specific
denials to any affiliation with SBVT Cahill is effectively calling President
Bush and his campaign team liars. And she does so, in her "outrage,” as she
panders for more financial support for the Kerry campaign.
But what else is new? The Democratic Party of late has had no problem
embracing ideas and sentiments that are nowhere near being truthful.
Recently John Kerry made reference to people having been disenfranchised
during the 2000 election in Florida. He also intimated that the Republicans
stole the 2000 election via the Sunshine State. Both of these contentions
are not only wrong, they have been proven to be so time and again, yet the
Kerry campaign, run by Cahill, continues to lie, continues to mislead the
American people, all in the pursuit of narcissistic power.
Several of the mainstream media outlets, including USA Today and the
Washington Post, did extensive research into the Florida re-count. They
tried tallying the votes in every fashion they could imagine. But no matter
how hard they tried to manipulate the numbers George W. Bush always came out
the winner, many times by more votes than were officially tallied. Yet today
we still hear people like Cahill, Kerry, Edwards and Kennedy insisting that
the election was stolen in Florida. This contention is not only disingenuous
it is a lie. They are liars for perpetrating this myth and they are lying to
us, the American people.
The same can be said about the alleged disenfranchisement of Florida voters
during the 2000 presidential election.
In a recent article by Larry Elder, Peter Kirsanow, a sitting member of the
US Commission of Civil Rights and an American-African, states that after
exhaustive investigations by both the US Civil Rights Commission and the
Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, "There was absolutely no
truth to any of those allegations…not one person who was intimidated…(or)
had their vote stolen. There was no disenfranchisement…no truth to any of
those allegations.”
In light of this expert and proven testimony one would think that leaders
such as Kerry and Kennedy along with operatives McAuliffe and Cahill would
be bound to tell the truth. Evidently we are grossly mistaken. Kirsanow
continued to explain, "The problem here is that, from the very beginning, a
number of myths flowed from the 2000 election. People who are in a position
of authority and responsibility, who should be dispelling those myths, fan
the flames even more.”
So, while Cahill and Kerry, Kennedy and Edwards "fan the flames” of
divisiveness as they almost drunkenly stager back and forth across the line
of truth we need to ask some questions of the Kerry campaign:
1) If the Bush campaign is breaking the McCain-Feingold campaign finance
reform law by colluding with Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth why aren’t
the DNC lawyers trying to intimidate them, as they are the Swift Boat
veterans?
2) If Cahill believes that 527s are such an outrage then why doesn’t she
call for all of them, both pro-Bush and pro-Kerry to cease their activities?
Why doesn’t she condemn them?
The answers to these questions couldn’t possibly have anything to do with
the fact that people like Harold Ickes and George Soros are knee-deep in 527
affiliations now would it?
Once again, the Democrats try to blame their opponents for the exact things
they do.
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