SAY WHAT?
Posted on 08/07/2004 12:26:49 PM PDT by hansel
Suppose in the 1992 presidential election, after an unconfirmed rumor surfaced about an alleged affair then President Bush had years earlier, Clinton supporters decided to make marital fidelity a central issue. That would be almost as crazy as the current effort by some Bush backers to focus attention on John Kerry's Vietnam War record and subsequent protests. This is being significantly funded and directed by Texas fat cats and political operatives who have more than a passing relationship with Bush political guru Karl Rove. These are some of the same people who surreptitiously smeared John McCain in the last election. There's a Web site, some vicious TV ads are supposed to start this week, and a man, who was a pawn of the Nixon White House efforts to discredit John Kerry 33 years ago, has written a book attacking Mr. Kerry's Vietnam experiences. The charges are that Sen. Kerry has exaggerated his war record, maligned all Americans soldiers when he later protested against the war, and learned the wrong lessons from Vietnam.
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Liberal as hell.
Hey Al....Kerry bases his whole life on his military service. It should be questioned.
Yes Mr. Judy Woodruff is very liberal.
Yeah Hunt is a Dim water carrier. The Dims are very upset that they are getting some of their own medicine.
Had G.H.W. Bush made his own marital fidelity one of his key planks while running for president, had G.H.W. Bush dared reporters ala Gary Hart, you bet you life it would have been fully investigated. There is no reason in the world guys who served with Kerry can not now step forward and say he is now or he then padded his military resume.
If Kerry is going to run on his Vietnam record...we have every right to question it.
By the way....McCain is way off base in backing Kerry on this. He is choosing a fellow senator who trashed the military over the vets who fought the war with out asking anything more than respect. McCain is the true Macnhurian candidate. I can't stand him.
For real? Even Grettel knows the answer to that one...
A_R
They don't come much more liberal than Hunt.
Thanks for the info. I am interested in politics but am not seasoned enough yet.
This guy's analogy is completely BS. Unlike Clinton, who did in fact cheat on his "wife" and rape other women, Bush has not manufactured war medals for himself or misrepresented his life like Kerry has. It's these kinds of stupid and incorrect arguments that win the minds of America's dumbasses.
John Kerry's Vietnam War record matters because he is the one that keeps bringing it up. Then he cries foul when the truth comes out. Kerry is such a loser.... In November too!
Al Hunt is crazy as hell to make this analogy.
All accounts clearly indicate? What a steaming pile of crap this article is. It's one thing to question the Swiftees questioning Kerry in Vietnam; it is quite another to start spinning his anti-war activity. I'm disgusted by this opinion piece. Who is Al Hunt?
"Anyone know if Al Hunt is liberal?"
He is past liberal in to socialist. I hear he cried when the Soviet Union fell.
If they're complaining about it, the truth is hurting them. Otherwise they'd just laugh it off.
Stand back the snowball is just starting to roll.
See my reply #9
What does Al Hunt have on the publisher of the WSJ that this mediocre dud has keep his writing job all these years? I wouldn't wipe my butt on an Al Hunt column, knowing how flimsy it is.
ooops...that should be "kept", of course.
(The previous address had insufficient bandwith and was constantly overloaded.)
This is an excellent site to Bookmark:
I'm late, but Al Hunt is married to Judy Woodruff.
Note to self...Do not question anything unless pre-approved by Al Hunt and DNC.
SAY WHAT?
Is Al Hunt a liberal?
Gee, I think that we need to consult our good friend Chou En-Lai.
Chou, were you a communist?
Chou:
(Roasting on a spit. Being jabbed by assorted demons.)
AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! PAIN!!!!!!! STOP!!!!!!!
What are you worried about Mr. Woofwoof. Afraid the truth will be revealed.
some people take claiming medals you don't deserve rather seriously... case in point, one Adm. Bourda
Anyhow, SwiftVets fire back!
Will someone please tell me exactly what was done to McCain in South Carolina? I'm tired of all the hints that this was so horrible without really saying what it was. I think McCain thought he was on a roll and George Bush beat him soundly in South Carolina. I think there were probably shenanagans from both sides but Bush came out on top.
Kerry needs to address the issue of his mental stability. Why did he machinegun an unarmed, wounded VC in the back, rather than taking him as a POW for interrogation? And why did he burn the villagers homes and slaughter their livestock? If Kerry went mad during his 4 month tour of Vietnam, this information must be made available to the American people.
When a previous Democrat presidential candidate lied, she not only made charges but she had audio tape PROOF to back it up. It still didn't matter to the mainstream media. She was just told she was a liar and to shut up.
I don't expect the Swifties will fare any better setting the record straight about Kerry.
What goes around comes around it appears to me that the dims have been questioning Bush's military record for quite some time now.
I couldn't agree more. The thought of a Kerry Presidency scares me more and more everyday...
If Bush had said and done the exact same things that Kerry said and done about his Vietnam service, Bush would be hung by the dims.
What Al Hunt doesn't get is this: The Swift Boat Vets' accounts of what happened in Vietnam are sworn affadavits. Kerry's accounts are not. And this is never mentioned by Kerry's supporters. Not that it would matter. Hell, their hero Clinton made a career out of lying under oath.
EXACTLY!
Did John Kerry serve in Vietnam? This is the first I've heard of it. It's shameful for the Republicans to bring up his war record, it's not like Kerry had Spiel-berg rework a bunch of bogus home movies and show them at the Democratic convention. I'm certain that with Kerry's long record in the Senate he will not run on something that happened 35 years ago.
/ OK, I'm sorry. NOT!
TRANSLATION: "This story is a smoking gun and has legs, so we're going to do our best to smother it."
[I will do time in Gehenna for that mixed metaphor.]
Nor more fake than his "hair"!
Well, at least Al "Michael" Hunt got this part right.
As previously said, Kerry made Vietnam a main issue of his campaign, even going so far as to give a very poorly rendered salute as he addessed the DNC.
The vets he has previously maligned have every right to get right in his face over this issue.
> John Kerry's Vietnam War record matters because he
> is the one that keeps bringing it up.
Apart from that, the present flap apparently resulted
from JfK running that unit photo on his web site, and
implying support from all who served with him. That
motivated the vets to do something about it. I could
be mistaken, but it's my impression that they started
the effort before they got funding.
Of course they got funding from someone not thrilled
with JfK. Who were they going to approach? Soros?
HELP!
Somebody with LexisNexus needs to help get access to the Kerry speech on the floor of the Senate in 1986 in which he elaborated on his "Christmas in Cambodia".
Somebody needs to help by getting video from C-SPAN or the like of the speech he gave. Obviously Nixon was NOT president in 1968 and to prove the falsehoods underlying the core of Hanoi John's supposed beliefs undermines everything he has ever taken a posion on!
Somebody HELP Please!
Al Hunt is way beyond liberal, and also a giant horses a$$.
Hey, Al Hunt, buzz off. Kerry's service record is just as legitimate an area of inquiry as is GWB's service record. Plus, Kerry's record "smells more fishy," if you get my drift. We see that YOU aren't interested in the truth.
UGH!!! This continued spewing and spinning by the libs on this issue is INFURIATING!!!!!!
He's got it all backward (I'm not surprised). If Pres. Bush had made marital fidelity the central issue of his campaign, and Clinton found out he had been unfaithful, then Clinton would have had every right to raise the issue in response.
Kerry has made his "heroism" in Vietnam the central issue in his campaign, and the SBV's have every right to contest that issue. Kerry brought it up!!!!!
This is SO UNLIKE the dirty trick vis a vis W's DUI which was held and then released on the eve of the election in 2000.
The liberals (and some others) are absolutely in unison on this...dirty trick, dishonorable, not on Kerry's boat, etc.......They have their talking points firmly in place. It is going to take A LOT to overcome their continued mantra. We can't let up and let them win!
Al Hunt is on the Kerry Talking Point mailing list, and so is Donna Brazille. Yesterday on Crossfire, Brazille also accused the swiftboaters of being the same ones who went after John McCain in 2000. She said they went after Max Cleland too.
Karl Rove is the Kerry's incarnation of Hillary's VRWC.
His poor taste in friends(Kerry) shows how ill equipped he is for higher office!
Sheeeese......where was the similar outrage when the Kerry people were questioning Bush's service to this country during the same period??? I seem to recall that Kerry took an active part in that outrage. Didn't hear any criticism from Hunt about that!
I disagree, mostly because the internet will be the difference in this election that it could not be in 1992. I do understand the source of your sentiments.
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