By Dan Balz / The Washington Post
Greg Wahl-Stephens / Associated Press
PITTSBURGH -- Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Friday he is tired of having his commitment to national security questioned by Republicans who never served in the military and singled out Vice President Dick Cheney and White House senior adviser Karl Rove by name, saying they “went out of their way to avoid” service during the Vietnam War.
In unusually pointed and personal language, Kerry condemned his rivals, who are airing a television commercial that questions the judgment of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee on national security issues and attacks him for voting against the $87 billion authorization funding for Iraq and Afghanistan.
“I’m tired of these Republicans who spend so much time denigrating Democrats and other peoples’ commitment to the defense of our nation,” Kerry said at a rally on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. “I’m tired of Karl Rove and Dick Cheney and a bunch of people who went out of their way to avoid their chance to serve when they had the chance. I went (to Vietnam). I’m not going listen to them talk to me about patriotism.”
False logic........called Straw man.