LURCH HAS STINKING BAD BREATH...
"Hanoi John" was a stinking traitor 30 years ago, is astinking traitor today, and will be a stinking traitor tomorrow?
Traitor "Terry McAuliffe," begets "Hanoi John," are begotten Traitors
Posted on 04/26/2004 8:29:50 AM PDT by weegee
I don't care if John F. Kerry threw his medals -- or ribbons -- or ribbons and medals -- over a fence in Washington to protest the Vietnam War 33 years ago. What matters more to me is Kerry's response now to questions about what he did back then. I am not impressed.
I watched ABC newsman Charlie Gibson interview Kerry on "Good Morning America" this morning. Ignoring the subject matter -- whether Kerry tossed his ribbons or his medals at a 1971 anti-war protest -- I gathered the following:
-- Kerry is a man who speaks before he listens. He continually interrupted Charlie Gibson, sometimes to his own detriment. At one point, Gibson was trying to give Kerry the opportunity to clarify that he had tossed medals belonging to two other veterans over a fence in 1971 -- at the request of those other veterans. But Kerry plowed on. He seemed stubborn.
-- Kerry has no sense of humor. It is fine to be serious about a serious question. I respect that in any politician, including Kerry. But never once in the course of Monday's ABC interview did Kerry lighten up. There was no twinkle, no smile -- no nonverbal indication from Kerry to Gibson that this whole medal/ribbon uproar may be fleeting and ultimately irrelevant. I've never met the man in person, but it's clear that the TV cameras are not Kerry's best friend. This must be a struggle for his campaign.
-- Kerry is worried. He leads in some polls, trails in others, but he wants to win the November election more than he's ever wanted anything in his life. How else to explain why he allowed himself to be put on the defensive Monday -- on a question dating back 33 years? Kerry and his campaign are doggedly answering every single barb tossed his way. Responding is not leading. And there are many barbs to come, because that's the way this game is played.
-- Kerry is angry. The Republican attacks are getting to him. On Monday, his voice had an edge as he blamed Republicans for trying to "make this into an issue because they have no record to run on." Several times, Kerry told Charlie Gibson, "I'm not going to stand for it." I believe him. But what can he do about it?
-- Kerry goes along with the crowd. In his Monday interview with ABC, Kerry said he didn't want to toss any medals or ribbons at the 1971 anti-war protest. He said he believed the "symbols" of the Vietnam War should be laid on a table, not thrown. But the veterans voted to throw their medals, and Kerry said that's why he went along with it. He was a crowd-pleaser back then and he appears to be one now.
I would not choose to have John F. Kerry as my president, however well-intentioned he may be. But I do want to respect and trust whichever leader Americans elect.
I believe many Americans are watching Kerry the way I do -- not so much for what he says but for the way he says it.
You can tell a lot about a person by turning the volume down - and by turning your instincts up.
(Susan Jones is the morning editor for CNSNews.com.)
-- Kerry is angry. The Republican attacks are getting to him. On Monday, his voice had an edge as he blamed Republicans for trying to "make this into an issue because they have no record to run on." Several times, Kerry told Charlie Gibson, "I'm not going to stand for it." I believe him. But what can he do about it?
Being President of the United States is a high pressure job. Whether it is dealing with an event the scale of the 9.11.2001 attacks or dealing with partisan critics selling books containing lies and misrepresentations around the world.
Could Kerry even cope?
That light way off there in the distance is not the light at the end of the tunnel which John Kerry is seeing...
...it is the careening, unstoppable Hillary Express roaring down the tracks in the other direction, plotting and ready to grab the nomination at the very last minute from a stumbling campaign!
Kerry's political career is over after November, Teresa may dump him because he'll lose whatever amount of influence and prestige he has as a Senator. He'll go back to being a drifter, living in lobbyists' homes or mooching off of wealthy widows or Hollywood stars like he did in the 1980s.
Exerpts of the epilogue of John Kerry's book - "The New Soldier"We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans' Day waving small flags, calling to memory those who died for the "greater glory of the United States." We will not accept the rhetoric. We will not readily join the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars---in fact, we will find it hard to join anything at all and when we do, we will demand relevancy such as other organizations have recently been unable to provide. We will not take solace from the creation of monuments or the naming of parks after a select few of the thousands of dead Americans and Vietnamese. We willl not uphold traditions which decorously memorialize which was base and grim.
Do you mean that Hillary might try give Bill another W.H. 'Intern'.
I am sorry to say, that I think you are right. Hillary talks about an October surprise. And the Clinton's do things longterm like that when it is about themselves.
The funny thing here, is the Kerry might not last until September, giving us Kucinich or Sharpton. I can see the democrats begging on bended knee over that.
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