[sinkspur]

Figures. Kerry's an aristocrat, through and through. He's not fooling anybody, and it will become more evident as he pursues the nomination.

An East Coast brahmin will never be elected president.

[Mo1]

In one particularly revealing anecdote, Camil told the Globe that a VVAW member "had tried to reach Kerry by telephone and was told by someone, presumably a maid, that 'Master Kerry is not at home.' At the next meeting, someone hung a sign on Kerry's chair that said: 'Free the Kerry Maid.'"

FYI

[South40]

Washington Times

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
December 6, 2002

John Kerry's war record As Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, considers a bid for the White House, Americans should know a few things about him that he might prefer go unmentioned - and I don't mean his $75 haircuts.

When Mr. Kerry pontificated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day, a group of veterans turned their backs on him and walked away. They remembered Mr. Kerry as the anti-war activist who testified before Congress during the war, accusing veterans of being war criminals. The dust jacket of Mr. Kerry's pro-Hanoi book, "The New Soldier," features a photograph of his ragged band of radicals mocking the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, which depicts the flag-raising on Iwo Jima, with an upside-down American flag.

Retired Gen. George S. Patton III charged that Mr. Kerry's actions as an anti-war activist had "given aid and comfort to the enemy," as had the actions of Ramsey Clark and Jane Fonda. Also, Mr. Kerry lied when he threw what he claimed were his war medals over the White House fence; he later admitted they weren't his. Now they are displayed on his office wall. Long after he changed sides in congressional hearings, Mr. Kerry lobbied for renewed trade relations with Hanoi. At the same time, his cousin C. Stewart Forbes, chief executive for Colliers International, assisted in brokering a $905 million deal to develop a deep-sea port at Vung Tau, Vietnam - an odd coincidence.

As noted in the Inside Politics column of Nov. 14 (Nation), historian Douglas Brinkley is writing Mr. Kerry's biography. Hopefully, he'll include the senator's latest ignominious feat: preventing the Vietnam Human Rights Act (HR2833) from coming to a vote in the Senate, claiming human rights would deteriorate as a result. His actions sent a clear signal to Hanoi that Congress cares little about the human rights for which so many Americans fought and died.

The State Department ranked Vietnam among the 10 regimes worldwide least tolerant of religious freedom. Recently, 354 churches of the Montagnards, a Christian ethnic minority, were forcibly disbanded, and by mid-October, more than 50 Christian pastors and elders had been arrested in Dak Lak province alone. On Oct. 29, the secret police executed three Montagnards by lethal injection simply for protesting religious repression. The communists are conducting a pogrom against the Montagnards, forcing Christians to drink a mixture of goat's blood and alcohol and renounce Christianity. Thousands have been killed or imprisoned or have just "disappeared." The Montagnards lost one-half of their adult male population fighting for the United States, and without them, there might be thousands more American names on that somber black granite wall at the Vietnam memorial.

As Mr. Kerry contemplates a run for the presidency, people must remember that he has fought harder for Hanoi as an anti-war activist and a senator than he did against the Vietnamese communists while serving in the Navy in
Vietnam.

MICHAEL BENGE
Foreign Service officer and former Vietnam POW (1968 to 1973)
Washington

[IncPen]

I had a chance recently to talk with a pastor who's of the same era as Mr. Kerry.

In fact, he was a divinty student at Harvard in the late 60s

I teasingly called him a 'dope-smoking hippy', and he laughed and said, 'Oh, I was liberal, all right, but I was married and my wife was pregnant. We lived in married housing and you didn't have the same crowd in there you had other places on campus. We at least tried to be serious."

Again, I teased him and said, "Ah. No dope, OK. But you were a liberal, so you went to the demonstrations, right?"

"Yes," he said, "I went to some... but I'll tell you why I stopped going. There was this fellow who was all full of the anti-war vitriol, filled with the hate, and he'd get everyone all riled up and mad, and the sit-ins and all that. I was risking everything to be there- missing class, missing work, away from my wife- and I thought that it was worth it, that we were actually accomplishing something. Well, one time this guy had got the whole place riled up, it was madness! and I wanted to ask him something. And so I followed him, because he slipped out at the height of the frenzy. He was about 20 feet ahead of me, sprinting, and all of a sudden he jumps into this red sports car and zips away. And I watched him, and I thought, what the... this is nuts! This kid doesn't care about this stuff! He's on his dad's dime! I was so mad at him! And at myself for doing it!"

The pastor's face was creased with anger- still- at having been 'had' so many years ago.

"I tell you what I did do. Partly of shame, and because we were so damn broke. I joined the army, as a chaplain, that's how I paid the rest of school. And I feel like I did some good, especially with some of those kids who came home..."

[zip]

ping

[Kirkwood]

Only pot smoking, hippie who ever had a maid. Guess it is proof how tough he was to put up with all that crap from his hippie friends.

[GmbyMan]

Just one cotton pickin' minute, John Kerry served in Vietnam? Who'da thunk it?

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

LiteKeeper
US Army, retired
Viet Nam, Nov 1967 - Jun 1969

And I didn't come home and become an anti-war lackey

[Right_in_Virginia]

BTTT

[mewzilla]

Wonder if Kerry could have a Kimba Wood problem?

[Ditter]

If he ever comments on where he spent the night, he will probably hint that a girl (not a maid) was involved & the libs will love him for it.

[Toespi]

"I could not be more proud of the fact that when I came back from that war, having learned what I learned," said Kerry,

What did he learn and where did he learn it? In Iowa last week, Kerry referred to the Viet Nam war as "Nixon's War." Typical, liberal selective thinking. His stink bombs will sell though because the sheeples don't know their history any better than Kerry does.

[Dante3]

I would like to see pictures posted of him and Jane Fonda.

[Petronski]

Kerry is just a shabby liar.