Posted on 08/11/2004 2:31:04 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Good Point.
WHY was Rassman on one of the boats?
HOW did Rassman get there? (The Why is a short answer, I think, the How, I'd bet, is more interesting.)
WHEN did Rassman first meet Kerry?
WHERE did Rassman fisrt meet Kerry?
WHAT did they do together?
WHO ELSE was involved, with Rassman at the time? Contemporaneous witnesses as to what Rassman was all about then.
You're right, Ted Sampley was snookered and took the bait and made a fool of on national TV.
I mean, the story was out there, the testimonials were out there, I posted them on another forum weeks before it became a big media issue. Didn't the media see this coming? Amazing.
I truly believe that the DIMS are in love with Hitlary and see her as their salvation. Fortunately for US, she is a hated icon and has a HUGE amount of baggage for Bush to thrash on come the debates, Oct, etc.
Very much like the "I did not have sex with that woman" issued by the Toon, maybe there's a stain on Kerry's hat?
"The voters have to ask if he can be trusted. In short: Free fall."
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...!
Well, you would think so, but there is another tried and true RAT strategy and I expect that's the one he will use. Ignore the story except to launch attacks on those who "repeat" it, using the challenge to prove how "mean and nasty" his opponents are. He may even accuse THEM of lying.
"and how he'd kept the man's hat as a reminder of that journey."
So he steals, too?
And it is a hatred that is so completely groundless and irrational.
If you have never seen hatred like this before, you never saw the vilification of Richard Nixon.
They don'r fall; they comply.
EXACTLY! When the Kommissar commands, the little hacks fall right into line.
Reminds of a DEM saying "Haha .. those are very serious charges, if true. They will never be proven."
The bar will move, higher if the goal is to jump over it, lower if the object is to get over it yourself.
Well, you have to admit, that's one thing Kerry is good at.
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They have an agenda to further in case we hadn't realized.
I do not beieve it is hatred of Bush, but that he represents the conservatives of America. And the world Socialists are sinking unless they can get a hold on the US. So their hatred of Conseratives and what we stand for.
you assume polls are not manufactured for kerry...
In a TV interview conducted by Greta Van Susteren earlier this year with Michael Kranish and Nina Eason of the Boston Globe, the following interchange occurred, which mentioned Kerry's oft stated contention that he spent XMAS Eve in Cambodia in 1968:
VAN SUSTEREN: Michael, did he cooperate at all with this or participate or sit down for interviews?
MICHAEL KRANISH, KERRY BIOGRAPHER: Well, sure. We did a series last year. It was a seven part series that ran 14 pages in the newspaper and he sat down for about ten hours of interviews for this series.
The book was written during the time when he was still running for the nomination right at the height of the Super Tuesday primaries and so forth, so our material for interviews was from the series.
To go back to your question you asked Nina, you know, he's also a skeptic of government. So, you ask why does he go, some people say flip- flop, other people would say why does he question things the way that he does?
A very short anecdote, he was in Vietnam and he was in Cambodia as part of a mission. I don't know if he intended to go but that's where he was but the government that was running the war knew that troops were in Cambodia but Nixon, President Nixon at the time was telling the American public, "We're not in Cambodia."
So, from a very early time, John Kerry is skeptical of government and he came back to protest the war that he participated in, so this is where some of this inner belief comes from. He does -- he did serve but he also questioned.
In a 1992 interview with John Diamond of the AP Kerry again makes the statement that he was sent to Cambodia. Here is an excerpt:
"But for Kerry, who spent six violent months commanding a patrol boat on the Mekong River, there's always been a ring of truth to allegations of abandoned Americans. By Christmas 1968, part of Kerry's patrol extended across the border of South Vietnam into Cambodia.
"We were told, `Just go up there and do your patrol. Everybody was over there (in Cambodia). Nobody thought twice about it," Kerry said. One of the missions, which Kerry, at the time, was ordered not to discuss, involved taking CIA operatives into Cambodia to search for enemy enclaves.
"I can remember wondering, `If you're going to go, what happens to you,"' Kerry said.
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