There was an article posted on this guy last week and in the discussion, I learned for the first time the John Kerry was dishonorably discharged and then pardoned by Jimmy Carter. I was surprised to not have heard of it during the campaign.
Swift Boats ping
The scrutiny of Kerry’s war record was not only warranted but richly deserved comeuppance. If you still refuse to believe Adm. Roy Hoffman and the rest of the honorable Swift Boat veterans that Kerry didn’t tell the truth about his war record, go ahead and take Captain Wade Sanders’ word for it.
Kerry has long reminded me as a member of a particular type of hippy that I encountered as a teenager.
Basically, this type of hippy was pretty much completely amoral, didn’t believe in anything. Thought society was a fraud, thought America was a lie, thought the concepts of honesty and integrity were jokes. Oh yeah, hippies of this type also believed absolutely that they were immeasurably smarter than anyone else.
They thought that getting away with obnoxious, unethical, immoral, or even criminal behavior was something to be proud of and proved how clever they were and how dumb everyone else was.
Kerry, and this guy Wade Sanders, strike me as being from precisely that mold. For them, the entire military was made up of a hoard of stupid fools, and if they could lie their way into combat medals that would guarantee them glory and bennies when they got back to the world, they deserved it for having to subject themselves to the indignities of military service.
That the citizens of Massachusetts continue to vote Kerry back into his senate seat tells you a lot about them. They’re no different, for the most part, as far as I can tell. The hippy movement was huge in Massachusetts back in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, with the student population of the Boston region leading the way. That’s the environment that Kerry came out of.
The following month, in a letter to the editor of the Boston Herald, Sanders harrumphed:Yes, I am a member of Kerry's ready reserve of Swift Boat vets and unlike those who served with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and their ilk, I serve with honor, integrity and exercise sound judgment. Fox would do well to reacquaint himself with those qualities.Best of the Web Today