"Hey, Lefty"
John Kerry political cartoon.
May 26, 2004...
Choose your friends wisely
By: Roger Wm. Hughes
Sen. John Kerry needs to check out who he associates with a little better. He also might want to have Sen. Tom Harkin (D/IA) stop trying to defend the two of them for their support of Communist Daniel Ortega.
The Senators traveled to Managua, Nicaragua, in April 1985 to meet with Ortega in advance of a crucial vote in the U.S. Senate. Lawmakers were battling over proposed $14 million in U.S. aid to "Contra" guerillas seeking to overthrow Ortega's socialist government.
On their 1985 trip, a photo was taken of U.S. Sen. John Kerry shaking hands with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, while U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin looks on.
"Not First Time Democrats Have Aligned with Enemy," says the headline on the Rush Limbaugh website. An article in American Spectator slams Kerry's "limousine liberation theology" in dealing with Ortega and his political party, the Sandinistas.
Sen. Tom Harkin, Kerry’s defender, was the author of the "Harkin Amendment" which was the cornerstone of President Jimmy Carter’s failed Human Rights foreign policy. There is a memorable flip flop by Harkin in 1982, at a radio debate while running for reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives. Harkin, after having radio spots run against him saying that he voted to give money to Communist Vietnam, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Communist Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, Fidel Castro’s Cuba and other Communist countries but failed to vote for any aide to pro American countries, said, "I have been wrong about the whole foreign aide business. From now on, I am going to vote against all foreign aide."
"What's the big deal?" Harkin asked about the bringing up of Kerry and his past traitorous behavior. "Those interested in using it to attack Kerry represent the "right-wing, kooky fringe," Harkin said.
Clearly Kerry’s penchant for aligning with those who have expressed a desire to weaken America -- like France and Germany -- has deep roots. Roots in places that align him with countries which were even more desirous of harming America than our current wayward allies.
