Question for Kerry Supporters

[usregimechange]

How do WE confront the criticism that Kerry was apart the society skull and bones?

[Dookus]

1. with snorts and laughter

[NewYorkerfromMass]

19. Yes. Or like this...

[poskonig]

2. Laughter

analogous to Kerry links with bigfoot, UFOs, and so forth.

[sallyseven]

4. Does anyone care?

I don't that is a college frat. they are all alike all secret and all bull..... It amused them.

[Maddy McCall]

3. LOL! With hearty laughter.

Non-issue, except to those desperate to fault find with Kerry.

[MurikanDemocrat]

5. With ridicule and laughter

If they are really serious and all wigged out about a fraternity, you might offer them the names of a few good therapists.

[bucknaked]

8. Well, so was Bush...

Almost like the R's saying "well, your candidate grew up RICH!"

[HowdyDUit]

6. I don't care what club he was a member of

As long as he supports the RIGHT of gays to marry he will get my vote.

Otherwise I stay home.

[usregimechange]

10. He says publically that he doesn't

His record proves otherwise. He does support it but the sad reality is that many of the southern dems and indpendents would find fault with it if he said he did today.

[absyntheNsugar]

7. Gifford Pinchot was Skull And Bones

He was the architect of the National Park System under Teddy R.

And if you ever want a better example of an eco-warrior hell bent on chasing corporations out of forests, here's your man. When logging companies would set up a shed, he'd go in in the middle of the night and blow them up.

Now you can't tell me this guy was posing as an eco-warrior at a time when there was no such thing as an eco-warrior as a foil...

Sure, S&B lies around in coffins and talks world domination. So did I in college. I also played RISK. Does that make me a boogeyman.

They do recruit for the CIA out of S&B - this is a known. They also recruit for the CIA out of the Marine Corps. Does that make them an evil organization?

[ibegurpard]

9. Well, start by admitting that he WAS and IS a member

As to whether that means anything or not, I don't really know and I'm not sure I take those particular criticisms all that seriously.

[SheilaT]

11. This really is a problem.

He was a member of Skull and Bones. It's NOT like a typical fraternity, and its secrecy goes far beyond normal fraternity secrets.

A reporter named Alexandra Robbins has recently published a book about the society. And here's just one link to some stuff about it: http://www.freedomdomain.com/skullbones.html

One down side of Kerry as nominee is that it becomes nearly impossible to hold Bush's Skull and Bones membership against him. Indeed, Kerry, as member himself of S&B, has ties and loyalty to Bush that are actually quite disturbing. However, that's not the beginning and ending of Kerry as person and nominee, and is probably best dealt with by ignoring.

On the other hand, if Edwards becomes the nominee, Bush's Skull and Bones membership is fair game.

[Crunchy Frog]

15. I don't know of anybody

for whom Bush's membership in Skull & Bones is an election issue. There are so many real issues to use against Bush, why try to use one that will make most people go cross eyed, or dismiss you as a conspiracy theorist.

I just honestly think it's an issue that voters couldn't care less about. People are worried about jobs, the economy, health care, wars, and a president that constantly lies, and is systematically transferring all of this country's wealth into the hands of his corporate cronies. S&B is simply a non-issue

Edwards wouldn't use it as an election issue either because it just makes our side look ridiculous.

[Fargin Ice Hole]

12. sorry, I don't vote for anyone that worships death....N/t

[woofless]

13. None of us do.

and it's RAMPANT!

[King of New Orleans]

14. Sing the insidous S&B song

Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
We do! We do!
Who leaves Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the martians under wraps?
We do! We do!
Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Guttenberg a star?
We do! We do!
Who robs the cave fish of their sight?
Who rigs every Oscars night?
We do! We do!


(stolen from other DU members)

[Crunchy Frog]

17. LOL! n/t

[Old and In the Way]

18. Sounds like a Monty Python ditty, LOL.

I'm gonna use it on the next dumb S&B thread that gets posted.

[aldian159]

16. BFD

Big fucking deal.