BLITZER: He did say on "Meet the Press" on Sunday that some of the words he used were probably inappropriate. He says he wouldn't use those words today, but he was young and he was passionate and he was anti- -- very anti-war. Can you forgive him for that?John O'Neill is still as quick on his feet as he was in the original Cavett interview decades ago.O'NEILL: Actually, what he said was -- or at least the part I got was that it was a little bit excessive. It's really not a matter of forgiveness. It's a matter of fitness to be the commander and chief of all U.S. forces.
Blitzer doesn't get it. And O'Neill points out Blitzer's blindness immediately.
BLITZER: As you well know, there will be charges made that you're getting involved now for political reasons, because maybe you're a Republican -- I have no idea -- or the Bush people are encouraging you to do so. Tell our viewers why exactly you are doing this now.Blitzer tries to throw a motivational curve-ball at O'Neill and O'Neill whacks it out of the park. He does it by keeping his eye on the ball: that everything in JFnK's past disqualifies him for the presidency.O'NEILL: It's not just me, Wolf. I think you are going to find many people, many people from Coastal Division 11 are coming forward now. .... Why are we coming forward? Because we were there. We know the truth and we know that this guy is unfit to be the commander in chief.
This issue is something that can't be covered up by the leftist news media.
If it was isolated, it would mean nothing. But occurring as it does at the start of the career of a politician who voted for the Nuclear Freeze and against every major weapons system in the US arsenal, this is a show-stopper.
This is it, folks.
This is the Real Deal Breaker on the question of "Can Americans Trust Kerry".