[maica]

Good point! In the reserves while acting like a Commie-symp! Would this be because he had serious connections in Boston - our man of the people, J Fn Kerry

[Hon]

"Would this be because he had serious connections in Boston"

As you probably know Kerry had serious Kennedy connections even before he went to Yale. He worked for Ted Kennedy's Senator campaign while a teenager. He dated Jackie's half-sister.

BTW, the guy I just mentioned who Kerry piloted around while he was still on active duty in the Navy, was Adam Walinsky.

Walinsky had been Robert Kennedy speechwriter before he became the head of the Veterans Against The War. He is also the guy who ghost wrote Kerry's testimony before the Senata in April 1971.

http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061703.shtml

[kabar]

Hopefully, someone in GOP operations research will examine Kerry's reserve record as closely as the media has done with GWB's. After almost 8 years active duty as a naval officer (regular commission not reserve), I spent a little over a year as an active reserve and then quit. Kerry seems to have spent 10 years active and inactive in the reserves. Fertile ground I would think for some digging.