Posted on 07/13/2008 9:13:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
FOUR YEARS ago, Democrats couldn't laud military service - especially that of their presidential standard-bearer - highly enough.
John Kerry's short stint in Vietnam was repeatedly invoked as evidence of his character and fitness for leadership. "If you have any question about what John Kerry's made of," his running mate John Edwards would say, "just spend three minutes with the men who served with him 30 years ago."
At the Democratic National Convention in Boston, photographs of Kerry's Navy days abounded - Kerry posing with his officer class, Kerry on the Mekong Delta, Kerry receiving a medal. One of the convention's speakers was a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who praised Kerry's "bravery and great distinction" as a naval officer, describing him as someone who "knows from experience a commander's responsibility to his troops."
Another speaker, former senator Max Cleland, a disabled Vietnam veteran, reminded the delegates that Kerry had volunteered for combat duty. "There were a lot of other things he could have done with his life," Cleland said. But "he had been raised to believe that service to one's country is honorable, noble, and good."
Former president Bill Clinton likewise noted that Kerry "could have avoided going . . . but instead he said: 'Send me.' "
And who can forget Kerry himself, saluting and "reporting for duty" on the night he accepted his party's nomination?
Given that effusive show of respect for military experience in 2004, you would think no Democrat this year could even contemplate disparaging John McCain's far more extensive military career.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
When you don’t have principles which you can safely reveal, all you have is expediency. Their entire game is about deceiving the populace. That plus fraud and corruption.
Most politicians are hippocrits and liars but the Dems excell at hypocrisy.
Jeff Jacoby is still the lone conservative voice for the Boston Globe, or am I missing others.
“...Obama mentioned McCain’s wartime service, pointedly adding that “no one should ever devalue that service, especially for the sake of a political campaign.”
Like he really meant it. /s
Still waiting for Kerry’s promised Navy papers - four years later.
In a recent speech, Obama mentioned McCain's wartime service, pointedly adding that "no one should ever devalue that service, especially for the sake of a political campaign."
. . . which is the passive-voice version of the truth, which is that even people who are politically opposed to McCain have to honor his service.But then, precisely because of the orgy of self-praise the Democrats engaged in over their nomination of someone who served in Vietnam, they are ill-positioned to honor McCain's service and yet oppose McCain's candidacy.
Your wartime military service is only valued in the Democratic party if you lead an anti war demonstration later against said war.
No, you’re not missing others. And, during the campaign season of 2004, he was temporarily laid off by the newly-hired editor, a liberal democrat hatchet queen, on phony plagiarism charges, freeing the globe’s editorial page to wax unanimously eloquent on Kerry full time leading to the election. Strangely enough, after kerry failed, the globe decided Jeff had suffered enough and took him back.
It’s actually strange that Jeff Jacoby accepted returning to the Boston Globe after what they did to him.
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