Posted on 08/09/2004 4:07:19 PM PDT by MadIvan
BehaveNet® Clinical Capsule™: |
Individuals with this Cluster B Personality Disorder have an excessive sense of how important they are. They demand and expect to be admired and praised by others and are limited in their capacity to appreciate others' perspectives.
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Now there's an idea for you: what if the "Watchdog of the People", a/k/a the "Fourth Estate", actually did their friggin' job, instead of curling aound the feet of their Master and quietly going to sleep?
What is nice about this story is that it involves latter day lies, it is neat, tidy, understandable, and even alliterative.
Mark Steyn...YOU ROCK!
BTTT
...except that no self-respecting voice would take residence in such a void.
Now, now, now. Kerry's a democrat, let's not let facts get in the way.
I want to be somebody! I want to be on the Steyn Ping list. Will I need to pick on posters who snip in respect of copyright. I sense the tension but we ALL love Steyn.
Excellent article!
I agree. I posted a condensed version of the DSM-IV criteria for NPD on 3/15/04 on a thread about how rude this man is to all around him. Everything I've seen since just reinforces my belief that this guy is not OK. Just my opinion, though.
All of this information is forming a personality profile on the guy. He's a guy who needs to feel important, needs the accolates, wants to live the good life, BUT DOES NOT OR IS INCAPABLE OF PUTTING IN THE WORK. He wanted to be a war hero..he took the path of least resistance...maybe he turned against the war because they basically told him to leave. Has anyone ever thought of that? NOBODY LIKED HIM, they tell him to leave. According to his Commander, he said he didn't want to, that he wanted to fight for his Country, but he leaves the next day and becomes and anti-war spokesperson, getting the attention he craves. He wants to be rich...so he marries the wealthiest woman he can find. It's a pattern through his life. He's a Senator, but he rarely shows up for work. GOD HELP US if this guy wins.
Kerry is not complicated at all, if you remove some of claims--his rewriting of his life story.
In fact, he was pro war--or indifferent to it. Most of all he planned to emulate his idol John F Kennedy to a bizarre degree.
To that end he got into the Navy (to avoid the draft), and then into a Swift Boat--a cutrate PT 109.
He did his best to rack up medals, even if he had to inflict the wounds himself. He got out as fast as he could so to run for Congress--as his hero did.
He then got his ass kicked because the war was not popular in Vietnam. This devastated him so much he was almost catatonic. (You've seen the pictures of him making the model airplane on the couch. That is from this time.)
He only snapped out of it when he realized he could jump on the anti-war bandwagon--even though he was a couple years behind the curve.
He pulled his strings (Teddy Kennedy) and got before the cameras in the Senate--and the rest is history.
Great piece! A Steyn quote argues with what
the Fox News/Brit Hume panel said tonight:
that the Kerry/Cambodia claim's NOT CENTRAL to Kerry's now-disputed record in Vietnam. All
(Barnes, Hume, Juan & Mara) agreed; the KEY
accounts that matter are about his medals &
if the Rassman rescue story is accurate.
But, Steyn selects this as a CENTRAL CLAIM
made by Kerry that is going to fall.
What do my fellow-freepers think?
What's even more damaging is that it provides credibility for the Swifties' story while tearing away at kerry's own credibility.
After initially denying the story and then being shown the truth of it, the campaign told Carl Cameron that they would have to "come up with an explanation". Why didn't they just say that they had to "ask the candidate"?
Christmas in Cambodia = Al Gore inventing the net+ Bill Clinton watching black churches burn.
In the dim tradition of lying this guy fits right in.
Christmas in Cambodia would seem to be what could get things rolling. We can prove this lie with documents. This will hopefully lead to more questions and finally his military records.
Christmas 66 and 67 Chu Lai Rvn. Mag 12 VMA-223
Tet 1968.
Tet- one of our guys got a purple heart during tet, he tripped over a pallet and broke his ankle during an attack.
He was awarded a PH. I seem to remember him trying to turn
it down but it was already in the system, put in by the sickbay.
...CENTRAL CLAIM...
So when it's a democrat, the things he lies about don't matter?
A first "breach" in the "wall"
of lies, then?
And that's just for starts! How many Vietnam Vets do YOU know that have married two millionairesses?
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