Bob Kerrey holds a Congressional Medal of Honor.
That makes his character superior to mine. And yours.
He also has a head shaped like a light bulb.
Proof of superior brain capacity & intelligence.
Bob Kerrey is the kindrest, braverest, most runderful AKSARBEN I’ve never met.
“It is impossible to understand the Franklin scandal and its cover-up, without knowing the environment created in Nebraska when Robert Kerrey was governor, 1983 to 1987. It was an atmosphere of permissiveness for the rich and powerful, to do mostly as they pleased....”
http://www.naderlibrary.com/franklincoverup.ApB.htm
A blight on the Heartland.
people change!
character is NOT immutable!
“Later, when I returned to Lincoln from Dallas, I learned from a close friend of mine and of Bobby, a prominent lobbyist, that immediately after the legislative vote in which I stopped his banking proposal, Bobby stormed out of the Governor’s office and down to the doors just outside the Legislature, where he yelled out a threat:
“I know you lobbyists worked for John DeCamp to stop me on this. Well, I promise you one thing. DeCamp is ‘dead meat.’ Do you hear me? DeCamp is’ dead meat.’ I mean it!”
When I was an infantry captain in Vietnam, the phrase “dead meat” was well known. It was what a soldier, usually an enlisted man, threatened an officer with just before “fragging” him. “Fragging” was a live grenade tossed into the tent, living quarters, or restroom facility of another soldier, most commonly an officer.
Live grenades usually kill or maim people. Bobby knew that. His foot was most probably blown off by a live grenade that either the enemy threw or, as he himself has indicated, one of his own men accidentally dropped near him. Originally no one dreamed Bobby would be recommended for a Medal of Honor...”
http://www.naderlibrary.com/franklincoverup.ApB.htm
Any ‘dead meat’ in cattle futures?
Where's Larry King singing these days?
"oops"
The story had first been exhumed by Newsweek’s Gregory L. Vistica in 1998. He established that in the Mekong Delta one night in 1969, in the village of Thanh Phong, a squad of Navy SEALs led by Bob Kerrey knifed to death an elderly couple and three children, then gunned down a cluster of women and children. Kerrey was cited for killing 21 Vietcong, and awarded a Bronze Star. Confronted by Vistica nearly 30 years later, he acknowledged that the citation was false and said he’d agonized over the killings ever since. A few days later, he withdrew as a candidate for the presidency. On that ground, Newsweek spiked the story as no longer of interest.
Three years later, Vistica finally placed the story with the Times and CBS. Set to appear in the Sunday Magazine on April 29 and on 60 Minutes II on May 1, it was leaked to the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post with Kerrey’s cooperation. It set off a media storm. Most of the commentary accepted one or another version of Kerrey’s often contradictory testimony, and treated him as the agonized victim of what Jonathan Alter of Newsweek (5/7/01) described as “gotcha” journalism. Kerrey told the Associated Press (4/28/01): “The Vietnam government likes to routinely say how terrible Americans were. The Times and CBS are now collaborating in that effort.”
http://www.fair.org/extra/0108/kerrey.html
“and that often derives from fundraising.”
Uhuh.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=Larry+King+singing+GOP+South+Fork+Ranch
GeeOpie — NO SALE.
Perhaps. But then again, when pondering such questions, I always like to remember that Benedict Arnold was the Hero of the Battle of Saratoga, and that Judas Iscariot was among the original twelve apostles.