- published: 17 Feb 2016
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John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior United States Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to then President George W. Bush.
The son of an Army Air Corps serviceman, Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado. He attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and went on to graduate from Yale University class of 1966, where he majored in political science. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1966 and, during 1968-1969, served a four-month tour of duty in South Vietnam as officer-in-charge (OIC) of a Swift Boat. For that service he was awarded several combat medals that include the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts. After returning to the United States, Kerry joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War in which he served as a nationally recognized spokesperson and as an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam war. During that period, he appeared before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs where he deemed United States war policy in Vietnam to be the cause of "war crimes".
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Genres: Animation, Comedy, Musical, Short,Actors: Jim Meskimen (actor), Jim Meskimen (actor), Jim Meskimen (actor), Jim Meskimen (actor), Jim Meskimen (actor), Jim Meskimen (actor), Jim Meskimen (miscellaneous crew), Gregg Spiridellis (writer), Gregg Spiridellis (director), Evan Spiridellis (director), Evan Spiridellis (writer), Mike Jaffe (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: The cut-out heads of George W. Bush and John Kerry alternate singing verses and choruses of a partisan political version of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." Bush and Kerry trade insults ("you're a liberal weenie," "you're dumb as a doorknob") and bragging rights (one's for tax cuts, the other has three Purple Hearts), as the animated backgrounds undercut the egos of both. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Edwards and Dean join their leaders in the choruses, and an American Indian provides counterpoint. Whose land wins out in November? You make the call.
Keywords: cowboy, dunce-cap, native-american, presidential-campaign, purple-heart, satire, title-spoken-by-character, waffleActors: Francis Joyner (actor), Peter Lang (actor), Siegmund Lubin (producer), Clay M. Greene (director), Walter Law (actor), Helen Greene (actress), Daniel Carson Goodman (writer), Eleanor Barry (actress), Carrie Reynolds (actress),
Genres: Drama, Short,