I'm still calling Kerry -- John-Jaquestrap Effin S.O.B 'I Don't Fall Down' Teresa Winthrop Simoes-Ferreira Al Qerry-Heinz III
John Kerry was in Vietnam?
can we paint him as a murderer of fatally wounded VC soldiers?
Of course. IT'S ALL THEY'VE GOT!
Geraldine Ferraro was spouting this lie on Fox the other day-- that Bush's guard records were still being 'kept from the public', (which we know means he's a draft dodger). She was called on this lie and kept it up anyway. While she also said that TerAYsa HK was giving millions and millions to charity, and that wasn't it wonderful that we'd have the richest first couple in history in the WH if Kerry won. She should have choked on her words.
Its another example of the candidate and his operatives seeming inability to avoid stepping over themselves. Its about respect for a President. I don't care what you think of Bush's record, that's a legitimate area for debate and disagreement, but striking a low blow by calling the the President a "draft dodger" suggests that that just saying something that isn't true by repetition will make it true. President Bush may not have served in Vietnam but he didn't take a deferment from service like Bill Clinton did. He didn't escape to Canada like some Americans of his generation did to protest the war. If he had been ordered to go, he would have served. To call someone serving honorably in the National Guard a draft dodger does disservice to the truth and justice. Anyway, now that Kerry feels compelled to remind people he did serve in Vietnam, it should be on the record no one objects to his service to his country when he was there. What people do object to is Kerry's conduct after he left the military and his painting with a broad brush the rest of his fellow Americans who were in Vietnam as "war criminals." Try as he might by changing the subject, the truth is Kerry did choose after he was discharged to choose the side of America's enemy. And he thinks that should confer him immunity from responsible criticism of his judgment. To question that is not to question a man's patriotism but I think the more Kerry whines his patriotism IS being questioned, perhaps he doth protest too much. The important point to remember this election year isn't that Bush wriggled out of service in Vietnam, which Kerry's own party opposed; its what he DIDN'T DO after he left the National Guard. Bush didn't side with America's enemy in a bid to be cool with people who thought their country could do nothing right then. So if Kerry is foolish enough to charge Bush with being a deserter in the debates, the President might want to offer this rejoinder: "Americans who fought in Vietnam tried to save that country from the worst evil of the 20th Century. I believe that was a noble deed. Why did you Mr. Kerry, think that was a mistake back in 1971?"