[austingirl]

I see their tactic is to move it to January so that Nixon was in office and thereby removing one lie from the fabric of lies. Not gonna work. Christmas is never confused with January.

[YaYa123]

Douglas Brinkley is putting his reputation on the line by rewriting his own biography of Kerry. Brinkley obviously only knows what Kerry has told him, obviously knows one or both accounts is most likely a self-serving lie, but his job seems to be, not historical accuracy, but CKA.

Sounds as if Brinkley has done no historical research...just copy pasted Kerry's ever-changing version of events.

[Palladin]

Well, you know, it could've been Orthodox Christmas, which is celebrated on January 6.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

[MN_Mike]

January won't work. President Nixon didn't take office until January 20th.

[cyncooper]

Not gonna work. Christmas is never confused with January.

Now now. It just ocurred to me what the logical explanation is.

You see, the Kerry family had long had a quirky tradition, (but being reticent, it was not common knowledge), of celebrating Christmas exactly one month later than everybody else! Kerry simply forgot to mention this detail and when he said "Christmas" in his head he was thinking of the family observance of *January 25*.

This would work, too, since Nixon would have been sworn in just 5 days prior--well 4, since Kerry actually said Christmas EVE...

[Iam1ru1-2]

Well, maybe the Jewish part of him confused Christmas with Channukah, and that it was actually Channukah which maybe fell in January.

[Let's Roll]

Yeah, what about being shot at by South Vietnamese who were celebrating Christmas? I guess they must have been good Buddhists after all - celebrating the Chinese New Year.

[Let's Roll]

Yeah, what about being shot at by South Vietnamese who were celebrating Christmas? I guess they must have been good Buddhists after all - celebrating the Chinese New Year.

[PJ-Comix]

Christmas is never confused with January.

I don't care if Ketchup Boy changes the month to February. He was NEVER in Cambodia on his Swift Boat except maybe in his Apocalypse Now fantasies.

[montag813]

I see their tactic is to move it to January so that Nixon was in office and thereby removing one lie from the fabric of lies. Not gonna work. Christmas is never confused with January.

And Nixon hadn't said sh*t about Cambodia in January or any other month in 1969.