Neither of the blow dried poodles are willing to give up their seat in the senate.
"We want to run the country, but we won't risk our day jobs" isn't exactly what I would call the "entrepreneurial spirit".
If the media wants to raise that issue again, the GOP should be ready with some ammo of its own. Specifically: Did Kerry lie about the medals he threw over the fence???
Here's the text of an email I sent to a political reporter at the Boston Globe:
4/27/04Mr. Healy responded within 20 minutes and said he had not noticed Lehman's signatures and found it "interesting, indeed". He was going to investigate it. But he hasn't written about it (on the web) and has not answered my subsequent emails asking him if he'd found an explanation.To: Patrick Healy, Boston Globe
KERRY'S SILVER STAR SIGNED IN THE 80'S??
I've come across something I don't understand and would appreciate you're clearing it up. Given the current issue over Senator Kerry's "medal toss" this may be important. Please understand...I am not demeaning Kerry's valor in any way. I honor his willingness to serve in a very difficult conflict.
I was looking at the military records on his website and I noticed that John Lehman signed his Silver and Bronze Star citations. Kerry served in Viet Nam in 1968-69. Lehman wasn't Navy Secretary until the 1980's.
Kerry's original Silver Star citation was signed by Admiral Zumwalt, but is not among the documents he put on his website. (It's at findlaw.com---I provide link below.) Kerry did post two versions of the Silver Star citation, one signed by Admiral John Hyland and another one signed by John Lehman. All are undated. But John Lehman was Secretary of the Navy from Feb., 1981 to Apr., 1987 (concurrent with the time Kerry was changing his story about his "medal toss"). Why would Lehman have signed the last citation? Maybe Kerry applied for replacement medals? (Still, wouldn't Kerry have used his original citation(s) signed by Zumwalt or Hyland? Unless he'd lost them?). See what I mean? This makes no sense. Lehman also signed one of the Bronze Star citations.
The language of the various documents is only slightly different. So why the new versions during Lehman's tenure? The only explanation I can think of is that Kerry applied for replacement medals. If that's the case, he has more questions to answer today.
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Original Silver Star citation (Zumwalt) at findlaw.com(scroll down to Kerry: "Silver Star")
Subsequent Silver Star citations (Hyland and Lehman) on Kerry's site. Bronze Star citations are there as well.
One other thing: I haven't heard a word about Kerry's lack of private-sector experience. Seems like a ripe area for discussion to me.
"We want to run the country, but we won't risk our day jobs," is a great slogan.
If you have no objections, I'd like to use it as my tagline for a while.
Thanks. Diddley