Oh, Did He Mention That He's a Vet?

New York T(Sl)imes ^ | May 30, 2004 | JODI WILGOREN

[texasflower]

OMG! That's one of the funniest things I have ever heard used to describe Kerry.

[nopardons]

It's Memorial Dar weekend...NO ONE READS THE PAPERS,so the LIBERAL media throw in some not so lefty stuff,and viola,all of a sudden they can claim that they are " fair and balanced."

[texasflower]

There is some controversy about that little business venture.

Apparently Kerry was been accused of stealing some other guy's cookie recipe.

I don't know any more details than that though.

[texasflower]

Very good point.

[Salamander]

Quite graphic, isn't it?....;))

[MCFujiTanker]

I ended up in the USMC, but when I was a Midshipman I never heard this "shoals" quote...ever. This is the first time, with service since 1972. I think he made it up because it sounded good to him. Hell, it would be common sense to change course if you were heading for the shoals...the moron should have checked his charts in the first place!! And this guy wants to be our "Gator"?? Semper Fidelis from Guam, where America's day begins!!

[texasflower]

Indeed it is. Alarmingly descriptive in fact. :)

[Salamander]

Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!.....LOL!

[neverdem]

If only this was a masthead editorial or an OpEd column other than by Brooks or Safire in the "paper of record", that would be a man bites dog story.

The author is a political reporter filling space with the truth. After eating crow this week about how they reported about WMDs in Iraq, maybe there's something happening with the editors at the Times that they allowed this to be printed in the "news" part of the paper.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Mr. Kerry suggested, "Talk to the guys I served with 35 years ago."

They had a press conference where they said almost to the man that you were unqualified to be Commander-In-Chief. As I recall, the New York Times didn't think that was newsworthy.

What I love about this article is that it can be read with or without irony. I can see one of the NYT editors: "Kerry was a veteran!?! This is dynamite stuff!!! We'll run it on Memorial Day Weekend! That'll teach those Republicans not to question my patriotism!"

[redrock]

I served in Vietnam.....and I don't remember seeing Kerry there.

Does he have any proof of his 'being there'???

redrock

[texasflower]

LOL!

[Howlin]

Kerry was in Vietnam? Who knew?

He was -- and he took a camera with him!

[Nam Vet]

"Reading about kerry is like listening to two chalkboards mating. "

THAT has GOT to be the quote of this election!!!

Nam Vet

[Nam Vet]

Me too!!! As a mater of FACT, he reported to my station at An Thoi in Oct '68 (the month I left) and I NEVER saw him either. None of my Buds ever reported his super 'bravery' to me either. Yer right!!! Prove it Monsieur "Panties Le Bunche" Kerry.

Nam Vet

[BykrBayb]

Yeah, but looking at him, or listening to him is so much worse.

[BykrBayb]

It wasn't by any chance Otis Spunkmeyer was it? I heard he got false info regarding the secret ingredient, and that's why it flopped.

[quietolong]

I had a Great Uncle that did 65 missions sitting in a B-17 over Germany-----Never talked about it

I have an Uncle that did three tours over in Nam ---- Never Talks about it.

After being a bar tender/ manager/ past commander of an American Legion post. You find out that those who talk the most...Did the least And that person who sits quietly over in the corner. Was one who was really in the S--T!

Kerry not only goes on & on about it. But took a camera back to reenact his event....Give Me A Break!....Scotty Beam Me Up....

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

Same here. I have an uncle who was a helicopter pilot in VN, NEVER heard him bring it up, or heard anyone else bring it up in his presence. My best friend in high school was the daughter of a WWII vet. He never talked about that war either, never mentioned that he was a veteran. I only knew because she told me.

[texasflower]

I had it a little bit wrong it appears. Here is part of an article from Financial Mail.

**He said he had acquired hands-on business experience when he opened a cookie store in Boston's Fanueil Market years ago and could have emerged as a nationally recognized cookie maker, if he had chosen that career path.

"It's still there, exactly as I created it," Kerry said of the store. "I could have franchised it across the country ... I had had this idea about combining it, taking it nationally, putting it into malls and supermarkets. I could have been Mr. Kerry instead of Mrs. Fields."

This article below has more detail. It looks like it wasn't the recipe that was in question between the two men, instead it was the business plan. But you may be right, there may be a separate recipe issue in this.


http://www.hillnews.com/news/012804/kerry.aspx