Kerry endorsed by Communist Party

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Kerry endorsed by Communist Party
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Tue, 07-27-2004 - 9:02pm
NEWS RELEASE

KERRY, THE COMMUNIST PARTY’S CHOICE, MUST REPUDIATE ENDORSEMENT, SAYS AMERIPAC

WASHINGTON, DC—Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, the likely Democratic presidential nominee this year, should reject the endorsement he has received from the Communist Party USA, the president of the American Political Action Committee (AMERIPAC) said today.

AMERIPAC President Alan Gottlieb said Americans, and especially veterans, “should be horrified that Sen. Kerry has been endorsed by the Communist Party.”

“John Kerry is widely known as the most liberal member of the Senate,” Gottlieb noted, “and even in her endorsement message, Communist PAC Chairman Joelle Fishman fawns that Kerry represents a ‘progressive coalition.’ Perhaps Kerry’s coalition might also like the support of the French Communists, the Taliban, Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party and other enemies of American values.

“The Communist Party USA has organized a ‘Push Bush Out the Door in 2004’ effort,” Gottlieb added. “They have also heaped praise on Democratic congressional candidate Cynthia McKinney of Georgia, Illinois Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama, and South Carolina Democrat Inez Tenenbaum, also running for the U.S. Senate. If that’s the kind of political company Kerry wants to keep, he ought to be in a padded room, not the Oval Office.

“Kerry has made a big deal out of his service in Vietnam, fighting communists,” Gottlieb stated. “His campaign has repeatedly mentioned the Purple Hearts he received for combat wounds. Maybe those wounds were as superficial as Kerry’s devotion to American values seems to be, because so long as he allows that Communist Party endorsement to stand, he unintentionally telling every American voter just what he thinks about defending our Republic.

“We call on John Kerry to repudiate the Communist Party USA, and walk away from its endorsement,” Gottlieb concluded. “Otherwise, Americans will know that John Kerry’s vision of America has a hammer and sickle waving somewhere over the landscape.”

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Thu, 07-29-2004 - 2:20am

ROTFLOL!


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Registered: 07-01-2004
Thu, 07-29-2004 - 8:31am
"So it wouldn't bother you to vote the same way a Communist would? Stop and think about that. "

In it's principle essence, communism is nothing more than an economic/social class theory.

"Communism, or communist society is the name of the social formation, which, according to Marxism, is a classless society in which all property is owned by the community as a whole and where all people enjoy equal social and economic status."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

The execution of communism by past leaders has been less than appealing, but you should really read about what you're claiming before you start a "the commies are coming" mob. I agree with Merlin that it sounds very reminiscent of the 50s.

And just for the record, I am NOT pro-Kerry. I am however, pro-know the facts before you start a debate.

"Much confusion (often seemingly deliberate) surrounds the words communism and socialism. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) described itself as socialist (as the name implies). There are also political parties which call themselves communist. These parties have a goal of eventually realizing a communist society. So the word communist applies to three things: individuals who are members of communist parties or who desire a communist society in the future, political parties which have a goal of reaching communism, and a theoretical future society where there is no government, only communism.

Historians and political analysts still argue about whether aspects of many 20th century "socialist countries", such as single-party rule or the human rights violations by Soviet apparatuses such as the KGB, Stasi (East Germany), or NKVD, were direct, unavoidable results of flaws in Marxist-Leninist theory or were caused by unrelated historical incidents; the argument is unresolved and faces reinterpretation with each new political conflict. However regimes of this nature have been totalitarian, featuring absence or repression of free press, church, and independent labor unions, and have often committed human rights abuses, opponents of Communism see it as a dangerous ideology, similar in effect to fascism.

Marxists dispute this usage, reserving the term communism only for the final evolutionary stage of society (see socialism). In Marxism, communism refers to an ideal stateless, propertyless, and classless society with no oppression or exploitation and general abundance and freedom. This society would run in accord with the principle: To each according to their needs, from each according to their ability. A common exemplification of the concept is "if a successful architect is single, he only needs one loaf of bread a day, and if a member of the proletariat has seven children with his wife, they need nine loaves of bread a day; neither have to pay for the bread at the baker's, and they both ask for exactly as much bread as they need -- the same applies for any other property, such as the apartment or the car". Because such a circumstance has never occurred, the Marxist ideal of communism is often viewed as an unrealistic goal, although at present many proponents of nanotechnologies argue that such society of abundance is technologically feasible (see also Paradise-engineering)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism


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Registered: 06-16-2004
Thu, 07-29-2004 - 9:59am
Yes, and MCVeigh as a REGISTERED republican ENDORSED the republican party. What's your point????
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Registered: 06-16-2004
Thu, 07-29-2004 - 10:00am
Oh, and the KKK also supports and ENDORSES the republican party. Let's have BUSH repudiate them!
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Thu, 07-29-2004 - 10:07am
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Sorry, I haven't been asleep. What is it exactly that makes you so afraid of the Communist Party. The last time we had a national phobia about communism it lead to a very dark period in the US--McCarthyism. Do you want to revisit this period? Fear is a state of mind, remember we have nothing to fear but fear itself. Communism, socialism and liberalism are social philosophies period.


Edited 7/29/2004 10:19 am ET ET by hayashig

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Thu, 07-29-2004 - 10:15am
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How so? BTW IMO Jesus taught a philosophy very close to communism: "To each according to his needs and from each according to his abilities." The problem with this philosophy is that it doesn't work because people are greedy. They are more concerned with self than the other.

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Registered: 07-04-2003
Thu, 07-29-2004 - 12:18pm
"Do you honestly believe that just because they endorsed Kerry, that when he's elected he will become a communist?"

Actually a lot of people think Kerry is already a Communist, or at least he sure thinks like one.

By the way, have you seen this...

http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/staticpages/index.php?page=20040531140357545

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Registered: 07-04-2003
Thu, 07-29-2004 - 12:56pm
Wow, those were some pretty slanted, twisted articles (about President Bush speaking at Bob Jones U).

Bob Jones U is a bit on the deep end of the rightwingers. Be that as it may, there is something incredibly important to understand in this. Basically, Bush takes a lot of heat on this for being associated with a fringe right group. Yet Kerry takes very little heat, and indeed is even applauded for his 'progressiveness', for having Michael Moore on stage or for doing fundraisers at any extreme leftist function. He can interact with the kind of nutjob liberal who is every bit as offensive and dangerous to the average American as the Bob Jones nutjobs, but somehow this never reflects badly on him. Some would say it is the classic double standard of The Left. "Everyone deserves a voice", they say, except those with whom they don't agree. Bush has every bit as much right, and dare I say responsibility, to visit with his fringe righties as Kerry does in meeting with his fringe lefties.



President Bush has met with the extreme right of conservatism. But John Kerry has in his corner wackos like Michael Moore, and the hysterical anti-gun groups, and the out-of-touch Hollywood stars, and those that think we should bow down to the UN, etc. I find those people as incredibly offensive and ignorant as you consider Bob Jones University, but that's the beautiful thing about freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. Both groups have the right to assemble peaceably (granted, liberals tend to violate that 'peaceably' qualifier more than conservatives in recent history), espouse their views, and meet with their party leadership. Thankfully, our founding fathers were smarter than either you or I and they guaranteed these rights to our citizens.



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Registered: 03-23-2003
Thu, 07-29-2004 - 1:14pm

Well, since I agree with most of the Democratic platform that Kerry is running under, I guess that makes me a 'communist' as well, huh?


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Registered: 03-27-2003
Fri, 07-30-2004 - 8:21am

I don't understand.


Elaine