Foxfyre wrote:Yes 1968 Joe....typo land. And okay Revel, I accept that you will believe Kerry doesn't know the difference between Christmas and January
I won't accept that the Swift Boat guys are nitpicking however. They were there. All served their full tour of duty. All earned their medals and ribbons along with a right to tell their side of the story. They are such a diverse bunch, I cannot believe they all share identical ideologies or have the same ax to grind. Therefore, at this time given what we know, Kerry's story looks a whole lot less credible than theirs.
And it would be trivial and stupid to make a big deal out of it now if Kerry himself had not chosen to do that. He's the one who wrote his resume to be: I was born. I was a war hero. I am the best man to be president. Now at such time that he wants to move the focus to what he has been doing in the 35 years since Vietnam, that would be okay too. I suspect he knows that's going to look even worse, however.
How do you "know" anything about the Swift Boat group except that they don't like your guy? How do you know that these fellas earned their medals and ribbons? What hypocrisy... and it is dawning on me, that's why the democrats don't fight you so well. We can't do hypocrisy with nearly the flair.
Quit throwing stones and start saying where Mr. Bush is doing well. Tell us how his tax cuts have helped the economy, if you can. Tell us how his clever handling of the war has been well-thought out, if you can. Tell us how his appointments have made any sense except as political plums.
Your highly funded group of right-wing nuts has come up with a book, websites and innuendos to debase clearly authorized and fully recorded military honors. Why? They are hoping for a few fools to believe them. They know they'll get huge amounts of coverage in the right-wing fueled websites, radio and TV. I say, find something else if you want to support your party honorably. What you are doing dishonors every person who has ever served. It calls EVERY SINGLE RIBBON AND MEDAL INTO QUESTION.
I posted a whole series of paragraphs about Kerry's prosecutor days. He has only begun to show what he's made of.
And I think it is BS to post that Kerry changes his mind while at the same time everyone knows he is the most liberal voter in the whole damned Congress. Get it straight. It can't be one or the other. The Senate is full of compromise. Anybody who can't change their position won't get anywhere.
Kerry has been hated by the Republicans since Nixon. Why should it be any different now? He is a strong, passionate, and, I'd say, patient man who has served this country since college in one field of public service or another with success and honors. Who else can say the same? The only reason to snipe at Kerry is because you don't have anything else to say. Face it.
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