Posted on 07/19/2015 3:14:04 PM PDT by smoothsailing
July 20, 2015
Secretary of State John Kerry came to the defense late Saturday night of Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), whose combat record had come under fire earlier in the day by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Kerry served in the US Senate with McCain for nearly 30 years before replacing Hillary Clinton as secretary of state near the start of President Barack Obama's second term.
"I have known John McCain for more than 30 years. We've had our share of disagreements and still do today. But one thing I know is beyond debate is that John McCain is a hero, a man of grit and guts and character personified," Kerry said in the statement...
..."If anyone doesn't know that John McCain is a war hero, it only proves they know nothing about war and even less about heroism," Kerry said....
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.in ...
Probably time for a review and some much needed FACT CHECKING!
If you still don’t believe the lapdog MSM is out to gut Trump, here’s another example of their typical yellow “journalism”.
https://sharylattkisson.com/fact-check-the-washington-post-on-donald-trump-and-john-mccain/
Sending John Kerry to negotiate America’s best interests with Iran is like sending John Kerry to do the same with the Viet Cong.
Sleazy scumbag Kerry!
Just a reminder about John Kerry.........
They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.
Well take that Trumpsters, the Vietnam war hero and three time purple heart winner John Kerry stands shoulder to shoulder with John McCain.
As another VN vet put it to me: “I don’t go for this business: cut yourself, give yourself a medal.”
Actually, John Kerry got three purple hearts. He probably could have won the war single handedly if we had kept him over there another 120 days.
Has he received the his purple heart for his broken leg yet?
Or the broken nose?
Or prostrate surgery?
He’s about to get another medal for having his butt kicked up between his ears.
Ping!
Kerry and McCain always come to each other’s defense. They’re both frauds.
Kerry crashed his bike. McCain crashed four airplanes.
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Well that’ll show Trump. </sarcasm>
John Kerry, who knows something about having his war record attacked, savages Donald Trump
From June 1, 2003 Washington Post:
JOHN KERRY: HUNTER, DREAMER, REALIST
Complexity Infuses Senator’s Ambition
By Laura Blumenfeld
Washington Post Staff Writer
John Kerry eats dove. Even better, he shoots them. From behind the stalks of a Southern cornfield, he’ll watch them flutter and dart, and fire.
“You clean them. Let them hang. It takes three or four birds to have a meal,” said the Massachusetts senator. “You might eat it at a picnic, cold roasted. I love dove.”
Dove, quail, duck, deer. Kerry described how to hunt and gut them, talking as he sliced through a steak at midnight after campaigning all day in Iowa for the Democratic presidential nomination. Carve out the heart, he said over dinner, pull out the entrails and cut up the meat. Bad table manners, perhaps, or good politics. After Sept. 11, 2001, some Democrats argue, they can’t take the White House if they sound like doves. That is not a problem for the dove hunter. Kerry, 59, is the only combat veteran in the field. He stands 6-foot-4. He rides a Harley, plays ice hockey, snowboards, windsurfs, kitesurfs, and has such thick, aggressive hair he uses a brush with metal teeth.
“That’s our slogan,” quipped his ad man, Jim Margolis. “John Kerry: He’s no weenie.”
“He doesn’t need a consultant to tell him how to dress like an alpha male,” said his friend Ivan Schlager. “He is a damn alpha male.”
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A close associate hints: There’s a secret compartment in Kerry’s briefcase. He carries the black attaché everywhere. Asked about it on several occasions, Kerry brushed it aside. Finally, trapped in an interview, he exhaled and clicked open his case.
“Who told you?” he demanded as he reached inside. “My friends don’t know about this.”
The hat was a little mildewy. The green camouflage was fading, the seams fraying.
“My good luck hat,” Kerry said, happy to see it. “Given to me by a CIA guy as we went in for a special mission in Cambodia.”
Kerry put on the hat, pulling the brim over his forehead. His blue button-down shirt and tie clashed with the camouflage. He pointed his finger and raised his thumb, creating an imaginary gun. He looked silly, yet suddenly his campaign message was clear: Citizen-soldier. Linking patriotism to public service. It wasn’t complex after all; it was Kerry.
He smiled and aimed his finger: “Pow.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59559-2003May30_4.html
Is there a differnece?
Hey, ‘Pod. Thanks for the ping.
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