Kerry adds to insult for veterans

Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | August 10, 2004 | Jim Wooten

[Diogenesis]

"Now the main thing they have going for them is Kerry's service in Vietnam,"

The main thing the terrorists have going for them is Powell in the State Dept.
Terrorists still invited by the State Dept into America in 2004

[Cincinatus' Wife]

'60s activists emerge again from left field*** Jack Hoffman is wound up. At 64, he can hardly contain himself as he rails against the war in Iraq and frets over the presidential race. He hasn't felt this much fire in the belly, he said, since he shouted antiwar cries during the Vietnam War.

"I went to sleep for 32 years," said Hoffman, a Framingham resident and the younger brother of 1960s icon Abbie Hoffman.

If Jack Hoffman has been politically drowsy since he last participated in protests in the early 1970s, he could now be called something of a political insomniac: He is handing out leaflets, speaking to disciples of the left, participating in demonstrations -- anything to bash President Bush and what Hoffman describes as a wrong-headed war.

Hoffman is not the only aging Vietnam-era activist from the region agitating for Bush's ouster in November. For these veterans of political action, the consciousness of the late 1960s and early 1970s is seeing something of a revival: As they look to propel John Kerry to the White House, some say they haven't felt as driven since those heady days.***

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***The campaign source said that the book was not considered a "serious" problem for the campaign, because, "the media wouldn't have the nerve to come at us with this kind of stuff," says the source.***Source

[risk]

The Vietnam I choose to remember was fought by men like Rick Rescorla. He's pictured above helping people out of the WTC. Most of his coworkers survived. He went back in to save more -- and didn't come out in time.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[gunnygail]

I'll be thanking God when the last of those smelly stupid hippies takes their eternal reward and gets banished to Hell for their actions here on Earth. Back-stabbing boneheads.

[mewzilla]

Wow. Just out of curiosity, is this Jim Wooten the same Jim Wooten I used to see on ABC News a long time ago?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I'm not sure. I know he's been a part of the AJC editorial page for some time.

[dano1]

Bump.

[gunnygail]

Enough to make a real American puke.

[Just mythoughts]

"I'll be thanking God when the last of those smelly stupid hippies takes their eternal reward and gets banished to Hell for their actions here on Earth. Back-stabbing boneheads."


Looks as though the "fence" sitters, those commonly called "Independents" are the ones being tested this go round. Another period of sifting the "wheat" from the chaff.

[mewzilla]

Well, ABC still has their Jim Wooten on their bios, so I guess this must be a different one.

[dano1]

"More than any other person, John Kerry is responsible for the false image of Vietnam veterans as dysfunctional misfits and crazed killers...This really isn't about Bush. It's about Kerry"

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Kerry's World: Father Knows Best***According to the conventional telling of John Kerry's biography, largely told by Kerry himself, his foreign policy views were forged in the Mekong Delta. During his disillusioning four-month combat stint on a Navy Swift Boat, the limits of U.S. power were revealed to him. As Newsweek argued in a cover story last month, "Kerry's policy views, as well as his politics, were profoundly shaped by the war." But, for all the neatness this narrative provides, it overlooks an entire chapter in Kerry's intellectual history: his childhood. In fact, Kerry's foreign policy worldview, characterized by a steadfast belief in international institutions and a suspicion of U.S. hard power, had fallen into place long before he ever enlisted. As Kerry's biographer, the historian Douglas Brinkley, told me, "So much of his foreign policy worldview comes straight from Richard Kerry." ***

[joesnuffy]

Wasnt just a false image but the one many so called Americans decided to push on Vets
and treat them as the false image were true..bringing about anger and bitterness

It took both a Kerry and a willing American public to pull the wool over their own eyes..

imo

[syriacus]

The Vietnam he frames for history is one where atrocities were commonplace daily occurrences carried out with the knowledge and consent of the officer corps.

Sounds like the basis for a new radio show for Keillor,

"Lake Blowhardspawn."

Where atrocities were commonplace daily occurrences
and all boo-boos earned purple hearts
and a man could define himself any way he wanted

[Just mythoughts]

"As Kerry's biographer, the historian Douglas Brinkley, told me, "So much of his foreign policy worldview comes straight from Richard Kerry." ***"


I think he learned alot from hanging around the Kennedys. One can only imagine what bits of "INTEL" he came across.

LBJ set a great example for JFKerry to follow.

JFKerry just like the Clintons have never been required to account for their words and deeds.

[jwalsh07]

"More than any other person, John Kerry is responsible for the false image of Vietnam veterans as dysfunctional misfits and crazed killers, and we intend to change that image," Bailey has said.

This is the truth of the matter. When I was much younger I was introduced to Kerry by a couple of my friends in the Army who despised him over beers in the NCO club.

[Muscadine]

This Jim Wooten is a fine newspaper man surrounded by mostly leftist bozos in Atlanta.