Posted on 08/19/2004 8:48:10 PM PDT by Interesting Times
I think the Kerry folks pulled back today knowing the NYT hit piece was coming. IMHO, the article was poorly written citing several quotes without context and using rather twisted logic to attempt to connect the Swifties to the Bush Administration. I expect to see several of the Swift Boat folks out front and center placing the quotes in context and thus pretty much neutralizing the article.
Congressman Billybob
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Epiphany for a new tagline!
I tried to email this to Rush and Hannity but they bounced back for some reason..I couldn't understand the code...someone get this to people who have a microphone...every conservative radio talking head you can think of!
Nah, Algore was inventing GPS and JK had a beta version LOL
The swamp monster is coming for Kerry.
Kerry is as big a liar as Clinton, he's just not good at it. He doesn't think ahead. He's like a five-year-old caught in the cookie jar each time he's caught, and unlike Clinton, hasn't taken the time to figure a prompt and convincing lie in advance. Clinton would not have been so stupid as to use the Swifties photo on his website - this takes away Kerry's deniability, and I bet it's mentioned in the next Swiftie ad. I'm sending them another $25.
In its seventh printing with 350,000 copies due next week. Wow.
http://home.nycap.rr.com/pwcarter/the%20kerry%20page.html
"As everyone must surely know by now, John F. Kerry came on board GRIDLEY as a boot Ensign when we returned from our 1967 Westpac Cruise. He remained on GRIDLEY through the 1968 cruise. Politics aside, shipmates of the time who have read TOUR OF DUTY, the authorized campaign biography, will have something to say about the chapter on GRIDLEY."
READ ALL OF THIS!!!!
I question the timing of the release of this... ;0)
(Oh, and IT? Great work you've been doing!)
Is that a trick question? ;-)
Bump!
They (Swift Boat Vets) have been on top of this from the git-go!! I was really happy to see that when the stuff started really hitting the fan, they were releasing statements refuting any lies and half-truths within HOURS. These guys are NOT backing off......they have truth on their side!!!!!!!
About Kerry:
*snip*
He has slid from one side of this formula to the other as the situation requires, and only a few of his hostile fellow veterans have been so crude as to point out that, by his own logic, he is a war criminal.
"I never wanted to be a professional veteran," he protested to a reporter during one of his early political campaigns. But of course that's what he's been, unavoidably.
In his public presentation, he is a dour, pompous, and unlikable man.
His political career--and his success during this presidential campaign, when his fellow Democrats ache for a candidate who will appear strong on "national security"--is unimaginable without his extraordinary service in Vietnam.
God knows, and experience proves, that he won't shut up about it. It has become his own personal bloody shirt.
Kerry's eagerness to bring up his military service at every opening strikes many people, including all Republicans, as opportunism, as just one more instance of an ambition that will exploit anything on the path to its own fulfillment.
But there are other possibilities, if we can briefly extend him the benefit of the doubt. It might also be the way a reflective man responds to an experience he's never quite been able to get over.
And because he can't quite get over it, he doesn't want us to either. This may be narcissism, but it's not opportunism, necessarily, and in any case it's perfectly understandable, and probably not worth criticizing. (Oh, I think it is <<<---my comment)
Brinkley writes at great length about Kerry's antiwar activism and only a bit less about his later political career.
For anyone interested in these phases of the story, however, "Tour of Duty" is nearly worthless. His devotion to Kerry is simply too large. More at the link
Another comes forward -- to expose Kerry's revised Cambodia story as a lie.
bump
Thanks for the ping Maeve. Having read Unfit for Command I think that everytime he opens his mouth he's lying.
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