Edwards can't challenge the allegations because he's lacking in knowledge, Kerry can't because he knows they're true.
Posted on 01/10/2008 8:14:58 AM PST by Snardius
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - Barack Obama is being endorsed by fellow Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats' 2004 presidential nominee who lost to George W. Bush that year and gave up his own plans for a 2008 run a year ago.[snip]
Besides any potential help for Obama, Thursday's endorsement was a slap at Edwards, who was Kerry's running mate in the last election. The two had their differences during the campaign over strategy and spending. In post-mortem interviews, Edwards said he would have been more aggressive in challenging the unsubstantiated allegations of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the Vietnam War veterans who questioned Kerry's military record.
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Defn: Getting Swift Boated - telling the truth and getting slimed for it.
Agreed. But the dumba$$ reporter could at least put Edward’s words in quotes instead of regurgitating the ignorance of his bias.
Also, you'd have to go all the way back and undo the decades of public school revisionism on American history, politics, etc. just to rehabilitate them enough for the real cure. Cold, hard, immutable, verifiable facts in mega doses administered without restraint. They could still be Liberals, but they’d be better for the cure.
Whe I think of th SBVT’s, I think of the truth getting out and justice being done.
AP = American Pravda.
How conveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenient; Forrest Dump here says that he would have been more aggressive, which is just another method of drive-by sniping by a smarmy lawyer.
What's stopping you from being more aggressive NOW, Mr. Two-Americas?
According to the book, the Kerry campaign was more than aggressive in trying to deny the SwiftVets their free speech rights.
Kerry should be tried for treason.
But the “Swifties” still won! History will NEVER record a President Kerry. Thank you John O’Neill and company! The United States will forever be in your debt.
Glen Johnson, Associated Press writer, should ask John Edwards what, exactly, are the Swiftie claims able to be disproved. The upside? $1 million from T. Boone Pickens.
After all, the challenge wasn’t to Kerry exclusively.
I phoned the AP and asked how I could get ahold of Mr. Johnson...the gal said I couldn’t...that he was out covering the campaigns. I told her that he could get all the “substantiation” he needed straight from Kerry’s military records...if Kerry would ever release them.
Kerry knew they were true.
Nowadays they just like speaking power to truth.
Kerry suggested that people who don’t go to school “get stuck in Iraq.” Aides said Kerry meant to jab at Bush and say “get us stuck in Iraq,”
And he still trying to spin this statement as a joke when everyone knows exactly what he thinking.
Well said.
Kerry’s act of treason was when he knowingly lied to Congress about witnessing and participating in “war crimes”.
A traitor must provide aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war (Constitutionally defined).
Kerry’s actions to silence the SwiftVets was an act of despotism. Much as any two-bit politician who “ran” the system back in the 1940s got things done (silencing, demonizing, criminalizing, and slurring the opposition).
Kerry did release them. To a friendly journalist at the Boston Glob who “assures” us that there is nothing to see.
Kerry knows full well that the challenge was to release the documents to his critiques.
The financial challenge put to Kerry asks for the military record as well as Kerry’s diary from the time.
IBHH=In before the Ha-Ha! graphic with the kid from the Simpsons.
Oh...
Over at the DUmp, where Kerry was never more loved than a spoonful of castor oil, they are peeved at his implicit slap of Edwards, one poster saying it effectively destroys Edwards’ hopes of winning. Well I should HOPE so.
Ha ha is the ur-schadenfreude. The primitive, schoolyard glee one feels as the Dems (at least Edwards) take another in the @ss. :)
I don't have the book in front of me and hence can't get the terminology correct, but I believe what was released could be viewed as an "edited" version of his true record.
Dims hate it when truth gets in the way of what they want.
That’s what I remember...if he truly wanted to “get the truth out” he’s sign a Form 1080(?) which allows release of his entire record.
Edwards can say or do anything, including suing, he wants to. Until Kerry releases HIS military records, there is no proof that the Swift Vets are anything except truthful. Stop whining, John, you lost and deservedly so.
Maybe we should send them a copy of "To Set The Record Straight"
. . . or at least link to an FR article about it . . .
Maybe we should send them a copy of "To Set The Record Straight"
. . . or at least link to it . . .
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