Posted on 08/16/2004 7:20:52 AM PDT by HawkeyeLonewolf
Ahh, the gems from Amazon.com. DNC must have ordered their own "goons" to Amazon to spit on the honor of the SwiftVets.
A sampling... "First let's undermine the US in Vietnam. Then we can go for gay marriage. When you get to be Pres. JFK-lite, there will be no end to how much of America we can destroy." "Just don't let anybody put a tablet with the Ten Commandments in front of the school where that girl wants to wear a Muslim scarf -- OH, No --- then the RATS would complain. Anti-Christian, Anti-American -- just like their Presidential Candidate -- Jean Francois Kerrie. "After he married TerRAHsa, didn't John Kerry begin practicing Judiasm? He also has paternal grandparents that were Jewish. What religion is John Kerry? "John F*ing Commie Kerry and Commie Ted [Kennedy] discuss their plan to hand America over to our nation's enemies." I find it difficult to read this book without laughing. O'Neill's "account" sets a new low for right wing propaganda and really doesn't belong in the non-fiction section of any respectable library. None of the veterans included within actually served with Kerry on his swift boat under fire and even the misappropriated facts seem horribly transparent as political mudslinging - so much so that even the Bush administration won't openly condone it. I give it one star for its juvenile humor and shock value, though I think the laughable nature of questioning Kerry's patriotism at all turns sour quickly - especially when I think of all the cartoonish anecdotes that can be derived from Bush's "service." Let the moronic onslaught begin.
When you finish this book -- go to AMazon and enter a thoughtful, HONEST review...
This book is the hatchet job of the century. I read it at Barnes & Noble, so didn't actually have to spend money to make these clowns rich. My advice is: don't spend your money. The book is clearly on a mission, rather than being in any sense objective.
This thinly veiled screed financed by extremist Republican backers of Bush attempts to dishonor the service of Senator John Kerry by soliciting statements from vets who weren't even in the boat with Kerry! Kerry's Commanding Officer retracted his statements and concedes that Kerry actually deserved the Bronze Star. That's consistent with his written recommendation three decades earlier. Now he has retracted his retraction. For a true account read the commentary by the man whose life he saved in The Wall Street Journal. I guess O'Neill and others fear that Kerry's pattern of heroism in Vietnam will reflect badly on Bush's pathetic performance in the National Guard. Shame on everyone associated with this book!
And now, John O'Neill has revealed to us what really happened during John Kerry's all expenses paid vacation in the Viet Cong infested Mekong Delta. Apparently unaware that he was a liberal anti-war coward and communist sympathizer, young John Kerry volunteered for two tours of duty in Southeast Asia. Oddly, the author doesn't count Kerry's first Vietnam tour of duty on the USS Gridley in the South China Sea as legitimate experience for a potential commander-in-chief, apparently because it wasn't as dangerous as George W. Bush's National Guard encounters with wobbly barstools in every tavern between Texas and Georgia.
Do not buy this book! It is just conservative propaganda for Bush and his rich white cronies. This book is nothing but lies. These "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" did not even serve with Kerry. They were only in Vietnam at the same time. Here are some quotes from Corsi about John Kerry--
Brought to you by the same man who ran the vets against McCain campaign for the Bush's, John O'Neill's book is as low as they come. The man who claimed McCain was unstable due to his POW experience now earns his pay by attacking another vet who dares to challenge bar stool pilot Bush. He makes his living as a lawyer for Texas oil firms and his website is funded by rich Texas Republicans but he tries to come off as an unbiased observer who's only interest is the good of the nation. One of his major sources has already retracted the statements supposedly drawn on for this obvious piece of political mudslinging. O'Neill talks like he knew Kerry well but wasn't even in Vietnam at the same time. Given the sorry state of every facet of Bush's last 4 years as president this kind of trash is his only hope. If Colin Powell ever runs for office against Jeb in the future I'm sure we'll see another pathetic attempt by O'Neill to trash him.
I thought the book wasn't in stores yet.
I am going to every book store and request this book. I will hound them until I get a copy.........I may have to secretly order on-line as well.
One good thing is these idiots cannot write honest reviews. All they can do is spew DNC talking points which only appear to other lefties. For them at best it will have no effect, at worst it will make more people buy the book.
Amazing that Michael Moore sabotaged Borders once and they stick his books front and center to promote them.
All their pathetic mewlings will do is pique the interest of the public and make them want to read it MORE. Once again, the libtards are doing their work for us. I LOVE to see the soon-to-be hanged tie their own nooses. Stupid is as stupid does.
It has been on the shelves here that long.
The book has been shipping for a couple of days now. Keep asking at your local shops.
Do you really expect them to tell the truth?
The reviews area acting in the image and likeness of their demagog. They passionately lie.
More dough for the cause!
I think you have it wired. ;)
Truth, as well as all other moral things, is completely meaningless to the left.
DON'T PUT THE BOOK ON YOUR CHRISTMAS LIST.
Now that I got you attention - Get the book as soon as you can, make it #1 on all list. And don't delay reading it, because I predict after November 2nd Kerry will just be a
bad memory and his name will soon be forgotton in the annals of time. Won't be much interest in reading about the looser after that November. By next summer books about Kerry,(Kerry who?)will be in many "free boxes" in garage sales all over America.
Can't wait till Amazon delivers mine.
Oh, conservatives would never do anything like that. Surely no conservative said anything bad about the Clintons' books without actually reading them.</sarcasm>
First those idiots at B&N offer a distorted cover of the book with an incorrect title on their website, now "Unfit" sits on their bestseller list at #2, but it is out of stock...B&n needs to get their act together.
Uh, what you're describing is Barnes & Noble's act.
A lifetime of reading headlines only and hearing 30 second sound bites only, doesn't give a person much to consider when an entire book of words confronts them.
Oh the horror.
But the loved F911, by MM! Cause that was of course true!
My local Barnes & Noble, in Columbus, OH is still showing a September release date.
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