Brinkley: Kerry Faces Questions about Senate Hit Plot

NewsMax ^ | March 14, 2004 | Steve Malzberg

[doug from upland]

Feb. 16, 1978 -- Kerry discharged from Naval reserves

While friends were voting on whether to assassinate senators, John Forbes Kerry was a Naval reserve officer. Where was his duty?

[hummingbird]

Then my humble apologies, raloxk. It was "icydanger" and "siberice" I had confused you with from the "Spain Announces Five Arrests in Bombings" thread. You kinda' sounded like them to me..."my bad." I think they are both gone now...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1097050/posts?page=701,50

[savedbygrace]

Maybe someday she'll find a matching clutch to go with it. LOL.

[Hon]

"While friends were voting on whether to assassinate senators, John Forbes Kerry was a Naval reserve officer."

No, he wasn't.

[secretagent]

According to Burkett, the Pentagon investigated VVAW's Winter Soldier allegations and discovered that some of the U.S. Marines listed by VVAW as having testified in Detroit "could prove that they had never been in Detroit and did not testify at that event."

Burkett is critical of Kerry for never having addressed the issue of whether VVAW and the anti-war movement relied on impostors or phony servicemen. "He presented this ragtag bunch of bums as your standard honorably discharged Vietnam vet, and I think nothing could be further from the truth. They weren't," Burkett said.

I think Burkett has it right in main, but the Pentagon report he refers to has disappeared, so it can't be relied on at present.

[doug from upland]

That's what the bio said.

[doug from upland]

I guess THIS SITE is wrong.

[Hon]

As I've mentioned on numerous other threads where this has come up, Kerry got out of the Navy in January 1970. He went back in, into the reserves in 1972.

[doug from upland]

Okay.

[Hon]

I don't know much about the miliatary, but I've been told by some posters here that it is unusual for Kerry to have been able to drop out like that, and go back in. They say he should have had to stay in at least the reserves straight through to fulfill his obligation. I just don't know if that's true.

The Wikpedia site gets a number of things wrong about him. Such as the claim he was in the Navy ten years (based on not realizing that he dropped out a couple years).

You know it's just stuff put up by people on the web, right? The information is only as reliable as the people who posted it.

[hummingbird]

Maybe someday she'll find a matching clutch to go with it. LOL.

There is a really good joke on the tip of my tongue but I just can't get to it! Arghhh.........LOL! I'll keep working on it!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

if the economy is bad, Bush will lose, but that's beyond our control.

If the economy is perceived to be bad, Bush will probably lose.

And the Democrats, in and out of journalism, have about quit trying to claim we are in recession, and are trying to make the case that we are in a "jobless" recovery - notwithstanding the fact that employment is a lagging indicator because employers hate to fire employee and, if only for that reason, are loathe to hire employees until they are sure about an economic recovery. So in six months or so, when people really are deciding about electing a new president or keeping Bush, the employment statistics presumably will be better.

When Bush came into office he was warning about recession and calling for tax cuts to help the economy; his timing was impeccable because recession was hitting even as he spoke. The Democrats immediately complained that Bush was "talking down the economy," and if a good Kerry sound bite is available to that effect it could be political gold. Because now we're coming out of recession, and if anyone is guilty of talking down the economy, it's the Democrats.

[js1138]

There will be televised debates, probably in October. That is when the general public and undecided voters will start paying attention. I talk regularly to people who are not following the campaigns. They know nothing about Kerry.

Here is Kerry's problem in a nutshell: Bush has been president through two major wars and a major recession. Nothing the dems can throw at him will stick, because people know how Bush has been doing. Those opposed to Bush have already made up their minds. It's going to be tough for the dems to add to that.

The undecided voters seldom go against a sitting president unless economic trends are going down.

Incidently, I've met a lot of people who would normally vote for a democrat, but don't like Kerry. The polls showing Nader with over five percent are right. This will tighten up in November, but right now it's got to be giving the dems fits.