Regards, Ivan
Regards, Ivan
Fab article.
Nuanced?
"If Kerry had exhibited the slightest trace of any interestingly complex view of any policy matter, you can be sure we'd have heard about it."
Classic Steyn.
Bumpski!
LOL!!!
Who else, could use the word 'hagiography', and make it work? Gotta love Steyn.
LBJ was President on Christmas Eve 1968, but let that pass.
Pardon me if I don't. It has come to my attention that the New JFK likes to tell people that he served in "Mr. Nixon's War." Unless Nixon and Kerry were involved in a war I don't know about, this can't be right.
Nixon figures to have been inaugurated on January 20, 1969, about a month before Kerry wangled his way out or got booted out of Nam. That is, only for the last month of a four-month tour. Johnson sent Kerry to Nam and he was back in the USA before Nixon knew his way to the restroom with the power off.
Off topic, but America owes a debt of gratitude to Danny Williams.
Now there's an idea for you: what if the "Watchdog of the People", a/k/a the "Fourth Estate", actually did their friggin' job, instead of curling aound the feet of their Master and quietly going to sleep?
Mark Steyn...YOU ROCK!
BTTT
Excellent article!
All of this information is forming a personality profile on the guy. He's a guy who needs to feel important, needs the accolates, wants to live the good life, BUT DOES NOT OR IS INCAPABLE OF PUTTING IN THE WORK. He wanted to be a war hero..he took the path of least resistance...maybe he turned against the war because they basically told him to leave. Has anyone ever thought of that? NOBODY LIKED HIM, they tell him to leave. According to his Commander, he said he didn't want to, that he wanted to fight for his Country, but he leaves the next day and becomes and anti-war spokesperson, getting the attention he craves. He wants to be rich...so he marries the wealthiest woman he can find. It's a pattern through his life. He's a Senator, but he rarely shows up for work. GOD HELP US if this guy wins.
Kerry is not complicated at all, if you remove some of claims--his rewriting of his life story.
In fact, he was pro war--or indifferent to it. Most of all he planned to emulate his idol John F Kennedy to a bizarre degree.
To that end he got into the Navy (to avoid the draft), and then into a Swift Boat--a cutrate PT 109.
He did his best to rack up medals, even if he had to inflict the wounds himself. He got out as fast as he could so to run for Congress--as his hero did.
He then got his ass kicked because the war was not popular in Vietnam. This devastated him so much he was almost catatonic. (You've seen the pictures of him making the model airplane on the couch. That is from this time.)
He only snapped out of it when he realized he could jump on the anti-war bandwagon--even though he was a couple years behind the curve.
He pulled his strings (Teddy Kennedy) and got before the cameras in the Senate--and the rest is history.
Great piece! A Steyn quote argues with what
the Fox News/Brit Hume panel said tonight:
that the Kerry/Cambodia claim's NOT CENTRAL to Kerry's now-disputed record in Vietnam. All
(Barnes, Hume, Juan & Mara) agreed; the KEY
accounts that matter are about his medals &
if the Rassman rescue story is accurate.
But, Steyn selects this as a CENTRAL CLAIM
made by Kerry that is going to fall.
What do my fellow-freepers think?
And that's just for starts! How many Vietnam Vets do YOU know that have married two millionairesses?
So you been to school for a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car thinkin' you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl
Play ethnicky jazz to parade your snazz
On your five grand stereo
Braggin that you know how the niggers feel cold
And the slums got so much soul
It's time to taste what you most fear
Right Guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear
It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough kid, but it's life
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Don't forget to pack a wife
Your a star-belly sneech you suck like a leech
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch so you can get rich
But your boss gets richer on you
Well you'll work harder with a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers til you starve
Then your head skewered on a stake
Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need my son:
Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crack
Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot [etc.]
And it's a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll do what you're told
A holiday in Cambodia
Where the slums got so much soul
nu·ance ( P ) Pronunciation Key (näns, ny-, n-äns, ny-)
n.
1. A subtle or slight degree of difference, as in meaning, feeling, or tone; a gradation.
2. Expression or appreciation of subtle shades of meaning, feeling, or tone: a rich artistic performance, full of nuance.
[French, from Old French, from nuer, to shade, cloud, from nue, cloud, from Vulgar Latin *nba, from Latin nbs.]nuanced adj.
Synonyms: nuance, gradation, shade
These nouns denote a slight variation or differentiation between nearly identical entities: sensitive to delicate nuances of style; gradations of feeling from infatuation to deep affection; subtle shades of meaning.
The plot sickens!
This one's a keeper!
But, Steyn and most others who have read Kerry's words don't drop down furtehr in the Record. In the same column, Kerry says, "I remember a politician who ran for President in 1968 with the secret plan for peace, and he was elected. The only promise he kept was that 4 years later the plan was still a secret."
Kerry has a "plan" for what he will do in Iraq and in the war against terrorism. he says. Let's see it!! How would Traitor John do it differently than W?
Hey it is an easy mistake. I have told people many times about the screwed up mission to rescue the Iranian hostages. I was on active duty at the time when I started reading the message traffic about the screw-up. I told person after person after person that Mr. Peanut was president, but everyone knows, in fact, that it was all Ronald Reagan's fault. Just shows what tricks memory can play on you.