Kerry can't recall being at '71 parley

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/04/01/kerry_cant_recall_being_at_71_parley/

Senator John F. Kerry said through a spokesman this week that he has no recollection of attending a November 1971 meeting of Vietnam Veterans Against the War at which some activists discussed a plot to kill some US senators who backed the war.

"Senator Kerry does not remember attending the Kansas City meeting," Kerry spokesman Michael Meehan said in a statement to the Globe in response to written questions about the matter. "Kerry does not remember any discussions that you referred to," the statement added, referring to the assassination plot.

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"He had nothing to do with this," Camil said. "I don't remember seeing him there."

Another person at the Kansas City session, Larry Rottmann, also said he does not remember seeing Kerry there. A third key player, Randy Barnes, who headed the Kansas City chapter that hosted the meeting, has been quoted in the media as saying Kerry was there. But in a telephone interview, Barnes said he may have confused that session with an earlier one in St. Louis and now is unsure whether Kerry attended the Kansas City function.

"Quite honestly, I am not absolutely certain that John Kerry was at that meeting," Barnes said about the Kansas City session. "A meeting occurred in St. Louis and one occurred in Kansas City. I thought the Kansas City meeting was first."

[hippiechick]

1. Crap, here it comes ....

The "Al Gore-ing" of Candidate Kerry. :eyes:

:hippie:

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. They didn't do a very good job with this pathetic attempt.

[htuttle]

2. Well, considering that Bush doesn't remember where he was from '71-'73

I don't think Kerry's memory is doing that poorly by comparison...

[CO Liberal]

3. Ray Milland Had a "Lost Weekend"

GW Bush had a few lost years......

[blm]

4. The big headline here is that the guy who first said he was now says

that he may have confused the meetings.

But, the headline will always be written AGAINST Kerry.

[MrBenchley]

6. Wow, who can forget the national period of mourning

when those Senators were assassinated like that?

Oh, wait, they weren't...due to the dramatic arrests and the trial that gripped the entire country...

Oh, wait, that didn't happen either....

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

8. I smell a Boudelang moment coming on

[rocktivity]

7. Amazing

The Bush camp is hardly in any position to be wondering what someone else was doing thirty years ago. It's like Hugh Hefner calling someone a pimp!

:headbang:
rocknation

[fizzana]

9. Who the hell can remember the 70's anyway. Not me.

n/t

[montana_hazeleyes]

10. In those days

many of the "activists" who plotted crap like that and caused violence to happen at demonstrations etc. were actually government infiltrates. They were out to ruin all the good causes and they succeeded in many cases.

[papau]

11. And it was not FBI that say they saw him there - just un-named folks

Ah - FBI raw files - better than tabloids!

:-)

[damnraddem]

12. VVAW was taken over by a Maoist group in the early 1970s.

I don't know if it was as early as 1971. But we can bet that the GOP will try to tar Kerry's earlier affiliation with what was done to the group later.