Posted on 09/09/2004 6:36:18 AM PDT by Area Freeper
Bush did not volunteer for multiple tours of infantry duty in Vietnam and win medals and multiple purple hearts as Oliver North did. But then, John Kerry got out of Vietnam just about as fast as it was possible to do, and didn't re-up for another tour as Oliver North did. Kerry didn't refuse a third purple heart as Oliver North did, in order to stay with his troops. If you are going to cast aspersions on a clean honorable discharge from the National Guard, where does it end? It ends with Oliver North being the logical choice for POTUS.Kerry's actions during and after the war are being taken as a personnal attack. Could change if he apologized though. This is Kerry downfall,
Kerry gets the fact that he has no concrete plan for the economy and no concrete plan for international security. Kerry grasps the fact that he has no concrete issue at all, and has been on every side of every issue except that if it comes to spending money on defense or intelligence he has been against it since forever.Kerry grasps the fact that the only way to create the illusion that there is some reason for replacing George W. Bush is to run as a Navy Lieutenant with a (limited, as noted above) war record.The trouble with that line of attack is that if an honorable discharge isn't good enough - Kerry said exactly that - then Kerry is attacking the honor of every veteran in the country. This, from someone who will not do what Bush has done and sign Standard Form 180 and allow publication of his entire military record.
Kerry can't apologize for smearing veterans and he can't sign form 180. He can't do it because either of those things destroys the whole rationale of his candidacy. Which is that Kerry is not merely a war hero but the war hero. In Kerry's world there can be only one war hero - John Kerry himself.
This is a fair and balanced article, except for the beginning, middle and end.
Nobody really cares about Bush's Guard record; he hasn't tried to tell everybody what a hero he was, like Kerry has. Nobody would care about Kerry's Navy record, for that matter, except that he's been campiagning on it for a year.
The Democrats will squander what little time they have left pandering to a distraction like this because they have not the slightest idea how to turn Kerry's sow's ear into a silk purse.
This barf alert material. Please make note for future postings.
Given the apparently fake documents that CBS is portraying as the true record of Bush's NG service, the title of this article needs to change to "Now it's CBS's Turn To Squirm"
oops! my mistake! It was Jeff Birnbam, not Jeff Greenfield. Big difference!
How quickly things change, eh?
HAUNTED PAST???
Words fail me......
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