Posted on 08/27/2004 12:56:45 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
JOHN KERRY wants us to believe he can effectively defend America, but based on the way he is struggling to defend his own reputation these days, you have to wonder about his grasp of focus, tactics, and threat analysis. Here's what I'd like to hear him say: "Here we have a president who the whole country knows deliberately avoided service in Vietnam, using his family's connections to get into the National Guard before going AWOL, permitting his surrogates to question whether the enemy fire I was subjected to in combat was thick enough to justify a citation for valor, or whether my wounds were sufficiently bloody to merit Purple Hearts?
"Since this president dances around the deck of an aircraft carrier costumed as a pilot and then goes out and cuts benefits to veterans' families and combat pay for our troops in Iraq, I really can't feel so special when he goes after me, just another combat veteran."
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(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Did not get time to correct name - Jonathan - nor corrections/deletions et al! Just hit the wrong button; was going to lop off my 'venting portions'. . .sorry!
Bump!
Great point! LOL!. . .
What a great cartoon that would make. . .
Give me 'genuine leather' - real leaders do not wear 'spandex'. . .and by those terms alone; GW is the leader and the winner; hands down.
"Can they handle the truth?"
Only in French.
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