Posted on 08/11/2004 6:41:38 AM PDT by kristinn
In an interview this morning on Fox and Friends, Kerry spokeman Jeh Johnson backed off of Democrat presidential nominee Senator John Kerry's repeated statements that he had spent Christmas 1968 on a secret mission in Cambodia.
Fox's Brian Kilmead asked Mr. Johnson whether Sen. Kerry would release the action report from January 20, 1969 regarding purported action in Cambodia.
Mr. Johnson said, "I believe you're referring to an incident that happened near Cambodia. Okay, well John Kerry has said on the record that he had a mistaken recollection earlier. He talked about a combat situation on Christmas Eve, 1968, which at one point he said occurred in Cambodia. He has since corrected the record to say it was someplace on a river near Cambodia and he is certain that at some point subsequent to that he was in Cambodia. My recollection, my understanding is he was not certain about that date.
Mr. Kilmead brought up Sen. Kerry's 1986 floor speech in the Senate where he talked about spending Christmas in Cambodia as being "seared---seared" in his memory.
Mr. Johnson replied, "I believe he's corrected the record to say it was someplace near Cambodia, but he is not certain whether it was actually in Cambodia but he is certain that there was some point subsequent to that that he was in Cambodia."
Mr. Johnson also repeated Sen. Kerry's canard that he left Yale in 1966 and turned down all options to further his education by choosing to serve his country. As was (barely) reported in March of this year, Sen. Kerry asked for and was denied a one year deferment to study in Paris.
This is an example of someone trying to be 'clintonesque' and failing.
We know bill clowntoon, sen. kerry and you're no bill clintoon.
(clintonesque: an oily dissembler, shunned in polite society)
So what does his "shrink" say about the repressed mistaken memories?
Could it be due to mind altering substances that erased his memory?
Just substitute Christmas for Tet and Saigon for Cambodia. And hangover for seared.
BULL S*IT!!
He said it was SEARED....SEARED in his memory!!
Oh what a tangled web...
That would make him CAUGHT . . . in another lie.
Kerry LIED. Kerry LIED. Kerry LIED. Kerry LIED. Kerry LIED. Kerry LIED. Kerry LIED. Kerry LIED. Kerry LIED. Kerry LIED.
Despite this the media will petition the Pope for Kerry to be elevated to sainthood.
We want to hear Kerry say that, not his spokesman. Kerry wtote newspaper articles, spoke on the Senate floor, and told reporters that he served in Cambodia. Was he mistaken or lying. Hopefully, some of the reporters will get on this story after learning that they were used as shills.
LOL
There was some point subsequent to Christmas 1968 that I was in Cambodia, but that doesn't mean I drove a swift boat there during the Vietnam war and it doesn't mean I was shot at by the then-nonexistant Khmer Rouge.
Kerry's got the Clintonian parsing down pat.
Regards, Ivan
Any other searing mistaken recollections, Senator, concerning three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and a shot up sampan?
This is as bad as listening to "Bubba".
Don't the swiftees say he never was in Cambodia? I can hardly wait and hear what O'Neill has to say about this one.
hawk
Great list!....
Kerry Admits that SwiftVets Points Have Credibility
Why isn't Kerry being asked this question by all the hounding media, and why isn't he PERSONALLY correcting the record??????? Instead, he is sending out his surrogates to do the job. Kerry needs to be asked on camera about this. Over and over and over and over. Until he answers.
This will be enough for the presstitutes to continue their full bore promotion of Kerry. If Kerry was a Republican, he would be dead meat and the election would be over. But he's a Democrat and gets a pass on each and every lie, freaky bahavior, and pomposity.
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