[Hon]

Well, as you mnow, I had nothing to do with the doctored photograph, since I thought the REAL one was telling enough.

But yeah, it does seem like Kerry is very touchy about people actually looking into his background. It's certainly understandable.

I don't think a man who actually negotiated with the enemy during a war has ever run for President before. (Just to cite one incident in his brilliant career.)

Kerry Met With Viet Cong And North Vietnamese In Paris In 1971
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091943/posts

[Howlin]

Mort Kondracke is absolutely apoplectic about Kerry and all these outbursts. I mean he almost foams at the mouth when he starts talking about it.

He has said more than once that Kerry has shaped the debate so that if you look into or say anything about Kerry's background, you're basically calling him unpatriotic.

Mort said the mere idea of Kerry talking about "all these personal attacks on him" is laughable because, to this point in the election, the ONLY people throwing dirt are the Democrats and Kerry's minions.

IMO, there is something "there" that Kerry is desperately trying to divert attention from, as I am sure you already know.

The problem for Kerry is, the more he protests, the more people are going to want to LOOK at those medical/military records.

[Howlin]

BTW, yes, I do know you had nothing to do with that photo; I want to be clear about that.

[Richard Kimball]

I don't think a man who actually negotiated with the enemy during a war has ever run for President before.

Bill Clinton left Oxford during his final year and spent months in the Soviet Union. He also stayed with Communist leaders in Poland. This was during the Berlin Wall days, and people didn't just stroll into the Soviet Union like a Western European backpacking trip. The press finds Bush's being in Alabama far more suspicious than they did Clinton's sojourn in the Soviet Union, and he has never accounted for his actions and whereabouts during that time. I don't know if he negotiated with the enemy, but he sure negotiated with their bosses.