Their leading political "intellectual" is touring at the moment, as I understand it. :)
Posted on 08/14/2004 6:06:18 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Flip-flopping?
LOL!
By the way, we can now add another couple of "Fs" to Kerry's "truth": Flip-Flopping, (teller of) Flagrant Fish stories, Flailing and Failing. He isn't called F'n for nothing. Perhaps his next tall tale will be that he was once a behind-the-scenes writer for F Troop.
BTTT
Their leading political "intellectual" is touring at the moment, as I understand it. :)
Similarly, if, when the Lawinsky affair was exposed, if Bill Clinton had admitted it to the public and pointed out that both parties were over 21 years old, the political damage to him would have been negligible.
It was the lying, purjury, attempts to fix a court case, intimidation of witnesses, and other evidence of corruption that outraged President Clinton's critics.
His defenders intentionally misunderstood the cause of this outrage and for purposes of propaganda attributed it to other, less than honorable causes, e.g. prudery.
Thus, to a considerable degree, they deflected the criticism of his behavior from its true cause to an absurd invention that they created to serve their purposes.
Weighing on his conscience?
NOPE...it's not conscience, it's UBRIS.
Here's how it works:
1- You're born privileged and unloved. Mom and Daddy are too busy being socialites (and socialists)so..
2- They send you to special schools in Switzweland and you're still desperately unloved but believing that you are special. You got to find a way to think you are superior because inside you feel like s..t.
3- You try to get attention, so "Please. please, will someone look at me and love me." To do that you have to sway to the wind of those that surround you...you learn flip-flop is the way to go...talk a lot but say nothing.
4- You go to Yale another special school but rather than partying a la Bush, the "inadequate YOU" cannot let go. Still trying to get love by impressing others...grades are not even as good as "despised party boy" but you still think you are better.
5- No deferment and you're stuck going to Nam.
6- You don't fit. To lead men in battle, you must love them. Still inadequate, cannot bond, you peers and your superiors know you are phony. They reject you after 4 months. You couldn't wait to get out of there.
7- You get back at them, because they didn't love you either. Call them criminals.
8- Become special again, marry rich. Again and again. Fake love, Fake superiority.
9- Must show power, depth, and be ponderous as a politician.
Make up stories to impress. No substance. No achievements. You still know you are hollow.
10- Circumstances (Dean implosion) land you in the "Most powerful man in the world" race. Why don't they love me, please, love me. Flip-flop. Still Hollow.
Now the lies will catch up and they will all know..He is hollow. You must be terribly afraid and thrash in the night...It's not your conscience, it's your UBRIS!
OH geeeeeeeeez. That is sad! Pathetic, and oh so sad.
I totally agree. But you know what the Dims will say: "but they were not on his boat".
(in fact I think that many of the people on his boat support him to collect their trifling 15 minutes of fame)
I find it breathtakingly, shockingly traitorous (we are at war) and cannot believe that the people of New Jersy-dems, repubs, independents are not CRYING FOR THIS CREEP TO GET THE HECK OUT OF OFFICE---NOW!
This story may be safe...only because gerbils don't write books.
"if snot-nosed American media grandees don't think there's a story there, maybe they ought to consider another line of work."
FMCDH(BITS)
Thanks for the complete post.
L
Of course, at the time he was in Vietnam he was not a traitor. He was merely a less than adequate sailor and commander.
That said, the awarding of combat decorations has built-in safeguards spelled out by regulation. It seems in Kerry's case these safeguards either broke down or were circumvented by Kerry himself.
Two of his purple hearts and both his bronze and silver stars appear to have been "gamed" by Kerry, who had a working plan to get himself heroically decorated in a short time. False Situation Reports by Kerry himself seem to be involved in all of these as well as going outside of his chain-of-command in the case of his first purple heart.
The unit itself seemed rather lax in the factual vetting and eye witnesses required in the verification required for combat awards. It seems his superiors relied wholly on Kerry's self-serving reports - which is not the normal means for awarding decorations. It would appear to me much of the normal oversight was lacking at his unit level, which permitted Kerry to "cheat" his way to his citations.
Kerry did it very quickly as he was only in each unit for short periods of time so he was never caught at his lies and evasions. Apparently, he was clever enough and his short time at each assignment no doubt helped him to hit-and-run with these lies and evasions and nobody was the wiser. They were on to more important things (to them), such as fighting the war. Being a liar and a cheat is so much easier when nobody is paying attention.
What's scary is almost half of the people in the electorate believe the dems lies.
They swallow all this stuff........hook, line and sinker!
bttt
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