Kerry campaign worsens

Hindustan Times ^ | August 27, 2004 | Binay Kumar, Immigrant's diary

[GretchenM]

The author of this has several problems... the first and foremost being a lack of familiarity with the story.

Absolutely. Every Literature 101 professor will tell you, When writing fiction, stick with what you know.

[GretchenM]

How can you be a "former" Vietnam veteran?

By repudiating your service, like John Kerry?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

After hurricane Carla came through Corpus Christi in the early seventies, I had business in the area, one of my nephews wanted to go with me.
When I finished my work, we went to Padre Island for beach combing. There was nothing on the beach but we leapfrogged my car.
I caught up to him with an object in his hands, it looked like a 20 pound bomb.
I told him to hold it until I stopped about a safe distance away, then put it down carefully and come talk to me.
After he was far enough away I called on my CB radio.
Help arrived and took the bomb, it was an inert practice bomb. My nephew was in his twenties and married at the time. I did not tell my brother about this until about ten years ago. I thought he was going to spank his forty year old son.

[StoneFury]

Wow, he was very lucky!

[SubMareener]

You are correct. Cleland was not wounded in combat. He, or someone on the same helicopter, was careless with a grenade. That is why he wasn't awarded the Purple Heart for his injurys.

[Salamander]

I think his campaign is taking on quite a mythological quality...sort of like...let's say..."Icarus".....;)

[SkyPilot]

Early yesterday, Max Cleland, a former US Senator from Georgia ventured down to the President's ranch in Crawford, Texas, to deliver a letter to Bush requesting him to personally denounce the Swift Boat ads...

Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to share with you my story of how I came to know and love John Kerry.

The real story is that Cleland is a bitter non-hero who lost his limbs (not in combat) but through a grenade accident. Cleland was ( appropriately) not awarded the Purple Heart. His patriotism was never questioned during his Senate re-election campaign--but his voting record was held under proper sructinaty----and the people of Georgia thought he was unfit to lead them.

[SkyPilot]

-but his voting record was held under proper sructinaty

If I could spell better, I would apply to the John Kerry Campaign and work in the Long Wang Division of Christmas Somewhere.

[Casloy]

Classic Indian pseudo intellectual claptrap. So involved with his own brilliance he's not even aware he hasn't a clue what is going on. Spent 4 years in India reading what passes for newspapers, and this is fairly typical.

[HHFi]

Personally, I thought this was the most cheap, vulgar, low piece of transparent political theater I've seen since Clinton left office. Any tiny amount of respect I might have still harbored for John Kerry went right down the toilet when he sent the amputee in the wheelchair out to fight his battles for him, with the obvious intent of using his injuries to get pity. It's pathetic, all right, but not in the way he intended.

Absolutely sickening...

[Alas Babylon!]

"That wheelchair keeps on turnin'...". Wasn't that a Tina Turner song?

Yup. I think the next line was "proud Kerry keeps on burnin'"

[Mayflower Sister]

Wasn't alcohol an issue in the incident? That was my understanding.