Posted on 08/15/2004 1:04:29 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
A reader recently complained that I had written seven columns in a row about John Kerry. This will be my eighth. Just consider me John Kerry's other biographer--the one who doesn't change his story.
The Kerry campaign accidentally gave the Swift Boat Veterans a good deal of credibility by admitting that at least one of their accounts of Kerry's Vietnam service is accurate. Now, the Kerry camp concedes that he never was in Cambodia on Christmas Eve, as the Swift boaters claimed, despite Kerry having stated in the Congressional Record that it was a moment that was ''seared -- seared -- in [him]."
Like any good liberal would do, Kerry quickly called on his biographer to discover, instead, that Kerry was actually in Cambodia at some point in January. At one point as he was running dangerous clandestine Rambo-like missions, Kerry even carried ''a hat he was given by one CIA operative.'' It was hard enough to keep up as his stances on the war and taxes changed daily, now even his personal history is starting to flip-flop.
Despite the score being Vets: 1, Kerry: 0, the Swift Boaters still get about as much press coverage as Joe Wilson only after he was discovered to be a fraud. When Wilson was calling Bush a liar, he had access to every microphone for weeks as his (false) version of events was quickly scripted into college texts everywhere. The Swift Boat Veterans have been acknowledged as telling the truth on at least one Kerry flap, while nothing they have said has been effectively disputed. Telling the truth even one time deserves at least as much coverage as someone who as never told the truth at all.
But by reading the media's account, the only thing we should really be concerned with is that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are funded--hold your seat--by a Texas Republican. These people obviously cannot be trusted. This is eerily reminiscent to the wonder that the media maintained over the Sandy Berger scandal. Not the wonder about why Berger stole, on several occasions, highly classified documents from the National Archives; the wonder about which evil Republican conspirator leaked it.
But admitting that the Swift Boat Veterans are telling the truth was not even Kerry's biggest misstep of the week. Kerry fell into a trap set by Bush by admitting that he would have voted for the Iraq War even if he knew that no Weapons of Mass Destruction would be found. Kerry had single-handedly disarmed the only weapon being used by liberals for well over a year now.
The left's biggest argument was that Bush lied about the existence of WMD's in order to get us to take over Iraq. Now, according to Kerry, the nonexistence of these WMD's does not even matter and Bush was right in his actions. Kerry has again rendered the left's ''Bush Lied, Thousands Died'' protest signs useless.
Kerry's strategy to defeat George W. Bush has taken a horribly bad turn. The only thing Kerry can now claim is that he ''would have done things better.'' We know that he wanted France and Germany to help ... but even his own advisers concede that not even Allah could have gotten them to play on our side for once. By announcing he would conduct a more ''sensitive'' War on Terror, he drew mainly laughs as images of him playing football with Al-Qaeda danced in our heads.
What is truly surprising is that Kerry has yet to fire his campaign staff for getting him into this mess. Hillary's campaign for nationalized healthcare had better chances of succeeding. Unfortunately for Kerry, a change of strategy this late in the game would be conceding that the jig is up. He will have to keep the Vietnam war hero charade on up until the election. In the end, the trick is on him.
About the Writer: Dustin Hawkins is a freelance writer and graduate student at Florida Atlantic University. His website is: http://www.dustinmhawkins.com/ . Dustin receives e-mail at dustinmhawkins@yahoo.com.
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LOL. If he keeps this up he can write a real book about Kerry
A passage from, Unfit for Command.
***On March 15, 2004, Admiral Hoffmann's telephone rang again. Once again, the caller was John Kerry. Kerry had clinched the Democratic nomination, and he
knew that Hoffmann was organizing Swiftees to bring out the truth about him, his exaggerated military record, and his antiwar lies that had slandered his fellow
veterans. Kerry made the admiral an offer: If you will back off and drop your efforts, I will ensure that my biography, Tour of Duty, which I know is unfair to you,
will be changed to make it accurate in a revised edition. Here is my secretary's number - you can get me anytime.
The offer from the Democratic presidential candidate was an attempt to flatter Hoffmann, a warrior whose coin is not power or wealth, but honnor--an honor deeply
impugned by Kerry's book. Hoffman, after all, is a wounded survivor of the amphibious assault at Wonson, Korea, where his minesweeper still lies below the frigid
waters of Wonson Harbor. Kerry knew that winning Hoffmann over to his side would thwart the Swiftees' efforts to discredit him. Hoffmann told Kerry that he and
the vast majority of his shipmates could never forgive him for his defamation of our Navy and other U.S. Armed Forces by his slanderous and undocumented
accusations of unspeakable atrocities in Vietnam before the U.S. COngress in 1971, his leadership in the VVAW, and his association with the traitorous Jane Fonda
and others of her ilk. Surprisingly, Kerry responded by simply saying that he "was expressing his conviction."
If Admiral Hoffmann were truly a butcher whose conduct "sickens" John Kerry to this day, an impression one could easily gain from reading Tour of Duty, then why
did Kerry offer to change inaccuracies he knew were in Tour of Duty in exchange for Admiral Hoffmann and the Swiftees ceasing their activities? In emails on May
3, 2003, and on May 7, 2004,trying to dissuade Swiftees from joining Admiral Hoffmann, Wade Sanders referred to the group as "bitter drunks," something the
sailors involved deeply resented. Moreover, Sanders referred to Joe Ponder, a seriously disabled Swiftee who cried when talking about Kerry's charges, as "a
whining crybaby."*** - pages 68-69
The liberals have zero shame. Lying to them is just a way of getting to power and its for the 'common good'.
Even the title is a lie. Four months does not a tour make.
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who made that?? They did very very good.
Excellent question. The answer - Kerry will do anything for his purposes. He is a psychologically sick human being. He's been lying about himself since his teen years. He's sick and should be in a ward somewhere, not in the White House.
This guy is Clinton without a personality.
Kerry's record shows he's a fraud
The Forum
Published Sunday, August 15, 2004
So just what do we know about this man, John Kerry, who would be president?
We know his war record. We know he has been disavowed by 22 of the 23 officers he served with in Vietnam as well as over 200 swift boat sailors Kerry worked with who say he is not worthy to be president.
Many described Kerry as "self-absorbed, requiring constant supervision." We know he is a man who shamelessly promoted himself for a purple heart for suffering a tiny sliver which was treated with a bandage. Other "wounds" were of a similar nature, according a doctor who treated him.
We know he is indeed a war hero – to the communists – who have installed his picture as such in the War Remnant Museum in Ho Chi Minh City.
We know his Senate record. We know that Kerry has consistently voted to decrease funding for intelligence and that while he served on the Senate Intelligence Committee, he missed 38 of 49 public hearings. And now he criticizes our nation's intelligence?
We know that Kerry has served 20 years in the Senate and accomplished absolutely nothing. He has been described by a seasoned staffer on one of the military appropriations committees as "the ghost senator; around here he doesn't count for anything."
If eight years of Clinton's lying and hypocrisy weren't enough, now's the chance to vote for a man cut from the same cloth, the lightweight, opportunistic, unprincipled fraud named John Kerry.
Ron Reames
http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=66766§ion=Opinion
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The letters to the Editors keep coming.!
The entire left-wing of this country has the same disorder. I say we invade Cuba and then start sending all the leftists over there and let the Cubans come live here. The ones who actually want freedom.
You've got me- I just lifted the code form a post. I guess I'm just a typical Internet Pirate...
Thanks
ping to post #'s 5 and 15, and the entire thread
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