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[LittleApple81]

1. Is this for real????? I am going to faint.... swoooooon....BRAVO!

N/T

[Dickie Flatt]

14. It's very real.

You can read it on the Kerry site, if you wish.

[Triana]

27. It's real...

It's on the JK site:

http://blog.johnkerry.com/dbunker/

[Saltdog]

2. What a beautiful sight to see

I might have to make a trip to the frame store!

[emulatorloo]

3. Go Mary Beth Go!!!!!

I am thrilled to see her nail them like this. . .hope this gets some press and the Kerry folk get on TV. . .

[displacedtexan]

4. Hey, Pete! Great post!

JK knows how to fight for our country... in more ways than one!

[Parche]

5. awesome

Like the "Slogan" from the USS Harder



Go get them Kerry "Hit them Harder"

[radfringe]

6. ok, I'm outta the loop on this

As such, we will not consider your request until the Bush campaign and White House make public the documents/materials listed below:

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what request?

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[Dickie Flatt]

12. fundraiser tape

Request for a tape of this fundrasier.

[radfringe]

18. thanks...

I take it the GOPers didn't sneak anyone in as a "sleeper" to take pics/vids...

lol

[patdem]

16. That fund raiser in NY? that raised 7 milion for Kerry

Where bush* was called a 'thug' and Whoopie Goldberg said her 'bush' would make a better president than 'that' bush*

[MindPilot]

7. Is that an actual letter from the Kerry Campaign?

If that is in response to the one the Bush Campaign sent out earlier asking for tapes of the fund raiser, it's beautiful!!!

[deacon]

65. It certainly is: the link...

http://blog.johnkerry.com/

[prolesunited]

8. Now THAT sounds like it came

from the opposition party. All very true and valid points as well. I especially liked the ending. :-)

Hope all is well with you, Pete. :hi: You let them know that we want them to keep fighting like that. WE WILL WIN!

[annxburns]

10. Okay, Mary Beth Cahill

gets extra prayers from me tonight.

You GO GIRL!

[Booster]

89. Mary Beth just got an extra $50 from me for

that excellent response. What a woman - I wish there was some way for this to get in print someplace so more women could see it and feel proud of one of their own. You go, Girl!!!!!

[oldcoot]

11. Cool!

It looks like Cahill has a spine.

[faithnotgreed]

13. its (right) on! that brings tears to my eyes... lets talk some TRUTH!

[Wind Dancer]

15. I love it!

They actually just announced it on MSNBC.

[Career Prole]

73. They talked about this letter exchange on MSNBC? n/t

[NYCGirl]

17. It's about f'ing time! (eom)

NT

[Cronus Protagonist]

19. Mary Beth has balls

I hope they are big enough for the entire Democratic party.

Choose Kerry Lose Bush - FUCK BUSH - Drop Bush Not Bombs!
http://brainbuttons.com/home.asp?stashid=13

[LittleApple81]

20. Being a female, I think she would find that very uncomfortable. COURAGE

is a better word.

[Blue_Roses]

63. oh come on ...Mary Beth DOES have balls

and it's just a juxtapose and isn't meant to be taken literally! I watched a speech Mary Beth gave to her alma mater and WOW, she is one talented lady.

She is the greatest and I'm glad John Kerry has her on his team. She fights hard with the rest of the "big boys," so this juxtapose would be considered a compliment to her I'm sure rather than an insult.

GO MARY BETH!!!! :bounce:

[Hoping4Change]

83. Forget balls. Mary Beth has a vagina! You go girl!

:toast:

[comsymp]

21. <gasp> It's real- link here:

http://blog.johnkerry.com/dbunker/

ON EDIT: Sorry, Dickie- serious lag so didn't refresh before posting, didn't know you had already posted the link.

[Bandit]

22. I doubt they will have any response to that letter.

What could they say? I only hope this letter makes the NY Times front page. No pink tutus here.

[DinahMoeHum]

42. Maybe she should have added a P.S.

"P.S. You haven't got the balls to respond truthfully to this letter"


:kick::kick::kick:

[cease_fire]

23. Mary Beth Cahill = Batman

THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!

Oh baby!

How do you like us Dems now, bunnypants?

Game ON!

[Misunderestimator]

24. YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

YES

on edit....

Mary Beth Cahill

ROCKS!

[Stephanie]

25. They forgot the "28 pages" blacked out from the Cong. 9/11 Report

The pages that covered the Saudis.

[LittleApple81]

29. Yes. But take this letter as the BEGINNING of courage and stopping

the apologizing...

[Stephanie]

32. I totally agree

But as a New Yorker I can't forget they LIHOP.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

26. Me likey! n/t

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

66. Me likey too! n/t

[frank frankly]

28. this is wonderful

I did gasp a bit that they mentioned Plame and then she turned the knife on them even more.

Bravo! And thanks, PeteNYC!

:hi:

[gasperc]

30. printed, posted on filing cabinet with my Ken Lay in handcuffs pic

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

[gasperc]

33. and that one year anniversary dig at the end, ouch

:kick:

[LittleApple81]

31. DO YOU THINK THAT DRUDGE WILL PUBLISH THIS LETTER????

I doubt it.

[aden_nak]

34. Holy shit that rocks.

And, might I add, it's exactly what I suggested they do.

Man, I need to get a new job!

[kayell]

35. Mary Beth Cahill, you are my new hero!

[Gildor Inglorion]

36. O Brave and Glorious Mary Beth Cahill!

What a fantastic letter; what a wonderful day to be a Democrat! You have ennobled us all, and made us proud.

[MallRat]

37. BLISTERING. BRILLIANT. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.

Honestly, I see stuff like this written almost every day here at DU, but for Mary Beth Cahill to mount such a fierce, unimpeachable counterattack against BC04 is just unbelievable.

I'm pulling out my credit card. This is deserving of a donation to Kerry-Edwards.

-MR

[LittleApple81]

38. Me too!!! n/t

[Gildor Inglorion]

39. Same Here! I just remembered it's "$5.00 Day" at DU....

and contributed that amount in honor of Ms Cahill. I wish I could have been five million, but one does what one can. ;-)

[Career Prole]

Yo! KICK for the $5 Day at DU reminder!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=announcement&id=77

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[tom_paine]

40. YES! IT IS! Now run some negative TV ads with it!

:bounce: :bounce:

God, I am like a thirsty man in the desert who has been offered a glass of water!

[InvisibleTouch]

41. I love it!! nt

[hippiegranny]

43. man oh man, i just love it!!!

this is the direction the campaign needs to take in order for the bullshit and lies to be stopped in their tracks. a positive message backed up with hard line refutations of the smirk/snarl campaign negative garbage.

i also liked how they came right back at them and compared edward's public service record to bush's when the "inexperienced" card was dealt. kerry's people are starting to think like we do!

[cease_fire]

44. Kick Kick Kick Kick Kick

Honestly, this is the most exciting development in their campaign.

This is how I want to be represented - with vigor!

[NNN0LHI]

45. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Its going to get better. A lot better

Just watch and see. Kerry has been keeping his powder dry. He won't fire until he sees the whites in their eyes. He is a winner.

Don

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

68. Ok

is it alright to admit your post made me tingle a bit?

[sangh0]

76. Yes. I predict more of this is in our future

.

[Blue Gardener]

46. Fantastic!

Kudos to Ms. Cahill and Kerry/Edwards campaign. This is what we need to keep in front of the American people.

[Rainbowreflect]

47. WOW!

That is awesome.

[blm]

48. And the hits just keep on coming. Bravo, Pete!

Round of applause for your entire crew.

[mcar]

49. Somebody send this to Bartcop

It'll make his day. It sure made mine.

[Grown2Hate]

59. Yeah, I was about to ask if Mary reads BartCop...

... he's been clamoring for a week saying the BEST answer to that "demand" for the tape would be to demand to see the Energy Task Force papers. Freaking BRILLIANT. :)

[chimpy the poopthrower]

108. I thought of BartCop too!

I posted it on a duplicate thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1989631#1990040

I said...

Somebody should send this to BartCop

He said, "If our side had any brains... we would (have) answered their demand to release that tape by saying, 'We'll release that tape right after Cheney releases his Energy task Force notes.'"

http://www.bartcop.com/1353.htm

I love BartCop, and I agree with him that Dems often lack spine, but I think BartCop is sometimes too quick to accept the media spin on that point. How could anyone read this story:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/krnewyork/2004...

...and interpret that as an apology by Kerry? The headline (Kerry backs off Bush bash) is grossly misleading but it seems to have done its job -- on BartCop anyway.

[SunDrop23]

50. You go girl!!!!!!!!!

[fdr_hst_fan]

61. I agree-go Mary Beth! Give 'em HELL!

[Kazak]

51. Love it!

:D

[Kadie]

52. Standing Ovation! Beautiful!

Keep it up.

[democrat_patriot]

53. THANK YOU!!!

This is the best response by the Kerry campaign yet!

Anyone have an email for Mary Beth Cahill, want to voice my support.

This has been a long time coming.

[WilliamPitt]

54. I just don't understand why Kerry's campaign is being so wimpy

:evilgrin:

[Kadie]

56. Maybe they should do a TV Ad of someone reading the letter

kind of like the Direct TV commercials. I think that you will be the perfect person to star in the ad Will. I can see it now. Yep. Someone sell this idea to the campaign.

:bounce:

[Missy Vixen]

96. Great idea!

>kind of like the Direct TV commercials. I think that you will be the perfect person to star in the ad Will. I can see it now. Yep. Someone sell this idea to the campaign.<

Second.

I would chip in to see this ad go national. Maybe it should be printed in every newspaper in the country as well. C'mon, Kerry and Edwards, show * and Crash Cart it's going to be an awfully long four months.

Julie

[connecticut yankee]

55. Will this be published anywhere?

I suggest ads in the New York Post, Washington Times and all the other right-wing papers.

Also local papers in the "red" states.



:kick: :kick: :kick:

[mark11727]

70. An EXCELLENT idea...

...an "open letter" printed in as many major publications as possible.

[Hoping4Change]

85. That is a great idea!!!

[classof56]

57. JK, You picked a winner!

Amazing!! Superlatives fail me! Just simply AWESOME! Keep 'em comin', Mary Beth!!

Tired Old Cynic

[derby378]

58. Not bad

It shows that someone on the Kerry/Edwards staff has cojones.

[Beetwasher]

60. Thanks Pete! But Will We See This PUBLICIZED!!??!!

It's an amazing letter, but will the press touch it?

[kentuck]

62. Right. If a tree falls in the forest....

:shrug:

[ibegurpard]

69. Maybe not

but we can help with that. Send it to everyone you know.

[Kadie]

75. Here is a start - link

Bush, Kerry camps request potentially embarrassing material from one another

NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, July 13, 2004

(07-13) 13:58 PDT BOSTON (AP) --

The campaign managers for President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry exchanged dueling letters Tuesday demanding the release of potentially embarrassing material.

Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman repeated his request that the Kerry campaign release a tape of a concert fund-raiser last week in New York City. Some performers referred to the president as a thug and a liar, and Kerry later praised the celebrities who had appeared.

snip...
Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill responded with her own letter, saying the Bush campaign's "paparazzi-like obsession" with the fund-raiser is misplaced when the public is more interested in seeing documents relating to the president's service in the military and the White House.

Cahill said the Kerry campaign would not consider releasing the fund-raiser until Bush releases proof that he fulfilled his National Guard duty and government documents relating to the no-bid contracts awarded to Halliburton Co., the drafting of the energy and Medicare bills, and the prison abuse scandal in Iraq.


more...http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/07/13/politics1658EDT0657.DTL

[PretzelWarrior]

64. this is great to see. they hold all the cards. they shouldn't be afraid

to raise the ante over and over and over again.

This pathetic administration cannot compete with KerryEdwards campaign

[RetroLounge]

67. Holy Shit!

This letter totally rocks!

RL

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

71. Well she just rocks

and I just pulled out my Visa and made a Kerry donation for the first time.

Keep THAT the hell up and hit even HARDER. The bushies have given us so much ammo it isn't funny.

Mary Beth Cahill is awesome.

[Career Prole]

72. Now *that* is a peach of a reply!

I loved the "paper anniversary" dig! :D

[Redleg]

74. WOW! Fire for effect!

How do you suppose the Bushies will respond? More negative ads against Kerry? Honestly, the only Bush ads I have seen are attack ads.

[Rosco T.]

80. "Fire for effect" my tookas...

the SS Kerry and the SS Edwards just pulled the covers off those 18" Deck Guns and are limbering up the targeting computers...

methinks this is the opening salvo of the most 'non-negative' negative campaign we've seen in a while..

How about a series of commercials, each asking for ONE of the FIVE major items to be released and the Plame/Paper zinger as a followup...

[Rosco T.]

77. FULL PAGE AD, Every Newspaper in the country.....

The Shrub whine on the top..

The RESPONSE on the bottom..

Game! Set and MATCH to Kerry! Seya Shrubya..

[LTR]

78. Has Mary Beth Cahill been reading DU?

Sounds like it came from one of us.

All I've got to say is, it's about damn time!

[sandnsea]

79. KAPOW!!! witty,searing, homerun, n/t

[wryter2000]

81. OMG

I don't believe it! Wahooo. My short answer was always, "As soon as you release Cheney's energy task force information." This is way better.

:bounce:

[NMDemDist2]

82. kick

:kick:

[Leilani]

84. The letter is great

but how many people know about it?

The people who read Kerry s website.

In a campaign, you need visuals, or it does not register. They need to get this on TV, so the masses hear it.

[pathansen]

86. She forgot bush's CRIMINAL RECORDS being destroyed or him getting a new

drivers license to cover up his cocaine arrest along with DWI's and other arrests. Then there was bushie's abortion cover up.
And did all those papers that were shredded at Enron or the alleged suicide have something to do with bushie? And what happened to that video (disclosing insider trading on the part of both bushes)? My husband saw this on TV proclaiming "Bush is ruined!!" but suddenly it disappeared never to be heard of again.

[Doctor_J]

87. yes, but when is kerry going to fight back?

today * said "Kerry doesn't want to liberate Iraq". It is a matter of time until he says, "John Kerry is a terrorist". And with no media presence, JFK is stuck.

IMO he should start challenging * to debate face-face and say those things. That gutless piece of shit will look like he did when he found out we were being attacked.

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

92. Kerry wants to liberate America first (nt)

[LowerManhattanite]

88. If I may paraphrase Dave Chappelle's "Rick James"...

"What did Mary Beth Cahill's five fingers say to Ken Mehlman's face?"

"SLAP!"

I loooooove this response! Especially because there's really no comeback for it without addressing it's far more important requests.

Go Kerry, go Edwards, and go Mary Beth!

[GreyPilgrim]

90. Fantastic

Great letter. Can't wait to see what the freepers say about this. :kick:

[Booster]

91. A shameless kick

Got to keep this thing going so everybody gets to see it.

[leftofthedial]

93. that frigging rocks. why did it take almost 4 years for a Dem

to grow a spine?

[mitchtv]

94. Net-zero is still good

but you can't use OE anymore

[CrispyQ]

95. The kid gloves come off -- the boxing gloves go on!

Been waiting for this!!!

[TaleWgnDg]

97. can this be true?! ooohhhhh, YESSSssss!!!!

You go, Mary Beth, you go!!!

We here in Massachusetts greatly appreciate Ms. Cahill who is now Kerry's campaign manager. We loved her, too, when she was on Ted Kennedy's payroll!!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

thankyouverymuch, PeteNYC, for the original post . . .

[Gore1FL]

98. This letter

reminds me of the episode in West wing where Bartlet debates Ritchie.

I hope the Kerry Bush debates remind me even more of that episode, but THIS is the start!

[nolabels]

99. I can't believe what I just read

:wow:

[Piperay]

100. TERRIFIC...

Democrats standing up for themselves, I LOVE it!!! :bounce:

[Ganja Ninja]

101. To everyone at DU.

The next time you get one of those right wing E-mail letters send this letter back up the chain.

[1songbird]

102. She really put the smack down on them. n/t

[JNelson6563]

103. I like it.

Well done!

More please!

Julie

[wishlist]

104. NBC though ONLY mentioned the part accusing Repubs of paparazzi-

like obsession. Nora O'Donnell I think on NBC today provided extensive coverage of Bush's remarks criticizing the fund raiser and asking for the footage but gave NONE of the details about the Kerry response, not even mentioning that Kerry will only release footage of the fundraiser when Bush releases all their secretive info. They showed a picture of the Kerry memo, but no quotes from it besides the "paparrazi- like obsession" part!

I certainly hope they give the memo the coverage it deserves. I am getting very frustrated with the way Kerry's responses to Bush attacks are not being covered or very muted.

[Reverend_Smitty]

105. Bam!

Damn that was one hard hitting letter!! Take no prisoners guys!!!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

106. Just ONE MORE REASON why Mary Beth Cahill rocks

and was the perfect choice..although I am certain it was a group effort :D

[aden_nak]

107. Attention Mary Beth Cahill - MARRY ME

[sistersofmercy]

109. Brilliant maneuver, absolutely brilliant!

Pete, thanks for posting this. :kick:

[bleedingedge]

110. Oh Dear God. BEST.LETTER.EVER.

I was going to write my local representtive with the same sentiments, but nowhere nearly as good. The last paragraph is a master stroke!

OhmyGod. I'm going to have a fit. SOMEBIDY FINALLY GOT IT RIGHT! SOMEBODY IN THE DEMOCRACTIC PARTY FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT! That they can discredit the Bush administration while at the same time defending themselves! Offensive defense! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I want to have Cahill's children. And I'm a dude. And I don't like kids. But still.

I'm giddy! Giddy! Giddy! Giddy!