This Cambodia thing could be fatal to Kerry's campaign.
We need to get to the bottom of it.
Then what? Hitlery replaces him on the ticket to save the day for the dems?
I think we have gotten to the bottom of it. Now its a matter of the MSM actually relating the truth of the matter to the unengaged segment of the electorate.
Swifts were 50 feet. I understand there was a 30 foot US boat, shallow draft, that would have been used to go into Cambodia, if there was any mission to Cambodia. Note Kerry's reference to Apocalypse Now. The single boat that Martin Sheen was driving, was smaller than a Swift Boat.
The movie reference, which most media leave out in referring to Kerry, helps to explain what's going on. Kerry's boat would not, for physical limitations, be used on a Cambodian "black op." But Kerry made that connection to paint himself as a hero in his own mind.
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I think the Kerry defence will be a play on these words, trying to obfuscate the issue (which is a core tenet of being a democrat).
Kerry's words: "In fact, I remember spending Christmas Day of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese Allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas."
He will say he was 5 miles inside Nam, actually 5 miles away from the Cambodian border. The "I didn't have sexual relations with that woman!!! Monica Lewinsky, I never told yold you to lie."
Clinton meant it as 2 senctences, everyone reported it as 1 long sentence. In his mind "THAT WOMAN" meant some female he was POINTING at in the news conference.
The "MONICA LEWINSKY" was NOT the woman he was refering to, it's the meaning of IS defence.
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But Bill O'Bloviator says it's no big deal--a mere misstatement.
I heard that he was very much a loner when he was in the Swift Boats. That he spent most of his time in his hooch writing. People were wondering what he was writing. Could it have been the "Great American Novel" with himself as the starring character, later to be played out in front of the Senate and MTP and Cavett... all the biggies? The world wonders.
RATS are frozen on this issue. Lame explanations like: 'What's the big deal, it was just a little hyperbole,' don't work because when Kerry was saying these things upon his return from Vietnam...when he was trashing vets, and Nixon was battling charges by RATs that he was invading Cambodia. This is serious stuff. Kerry lied repeatedly. Rush said yesterday that Kerry was imploding. Panic setting in over at DU and RAT headquarters? This bogus war hero record is Kerry's raison d'etre for running. The RATs didn't have anyone else who'd been anywhere near a gun, other than Hillary eating that turkey last Thanksgiving. They were counting on Kerry to trump Bush's aircraft carrier picture. This could be the beginning of the end of Kerry's campaign. Hillary's already warming up in the wings.
Talk of a Kerry and the missus shouting match today. Mama T. is tired of campaigning. Well, Kerry should have foreseen this. Either they up her meds or top up her glass more often. But keep her talking. The dynamic duo are the funniest thing since Howie Noneck Dean. Maybe that's the problem. Kerry's peaked too soon, and Mama T. is bored.