Posted on 08/27/2004 5:25:15 PM PDT by John Jorsett
John Kerry (version 2004) says it is wrong to question how a vet got his medals. President Bush agrees. But John Kerry (version 1996) had a different viewpoint:
In 1996, a left-wing news service raised questions about two small "V" clips that the chief of Naval operations wore over two of the medals on his chest full of them. The clips are awarded for valor under fire, and there was some doubt about whether Boorda's two tours in Vietnam aboard combat ships qualified him for the awards, although the Washington Post reported that a 1965 Navy manual appeared to support Boorda's right to wear the clips. Unlike Kerry, the awards did not provide grounds for Boorda to shorten his tours of duty. Hours before he was scheduled to meet with Newsweek reporters to discuss the controversy, the admiral went to his home at the Navy Yard and shot himself in the chest...1. Investigating how someone got his medals is acceptable...unless the one under investigation is John Kerry."Is it wrong? Yes, it is very wrong. Sufficient to question his leadership position? The answer is yes, which he clearly understood," said Sen. John Kerry, a Navy combat veteran who served in Vietnam.Citing uncertainty of whether Boorda deliberately wore the pins improperly, Kerry added: "If he made a mistake, in my judgment it wasn't worth his life, so I'm very sad about it."
And let us consult the Boston Globe for the same day:
"If you wind up being less than what you’re pretending to be, there is a major confrontation with value and self-esteem and your sense of how others view you."Of Boorda and his apparent violation, Kerry said: "When you are the chief of them all, it has to weigh even more heavily."
2. Sitting back while 527 organizations attack your opponent is acceptable...unless the organization is attacking John Kerry.
3. Requiring a candidate to open his all his records so the public cane really be informed is acceptable...unless the records are John Kerry's.
4. Talking about your opponent's record and how it lacks merit is dirty, negative campaigning...unless John Kerry is doing the talking.
5. Publically and directly questioning your opponent's service to the country is wrong...unless you are John Kerry.
6. Being in someplace and near someplace are two different things altogether...unless you are John Kerry.
Is anyone noticing a pattern here?
And Kerry is now facing his own controversy over combat V's he may have wrongly claimed:
http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerry200408271252.asp
http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerry200408271553.asp
Sorry--I was speechless. Great research.
Great find.Not having heard the full Boorda story (isn't David Halfworth [sic] one of those who hounded the fellow, too?), it's doubly sad that the man took his own life over a minor transgression, compared to what some in prominent public positions have gotten away with lately.
Kerry, I do believe, is narcissistic enough to commit suicide in such a situation, but also so narcissistic that he would never admit error, either. Contradictory?
You mean that little matter of being on both sides of an issue?
First Edwards said, "Ask those who served with Kerry." Then Kerry basically said, "Look at the Naval Records".
I guess they don't have that "Be Careful what you ask for saying in NC or Boston."
Bookmarking bump, great find.
Good catch.
I don't imagine he'll be shooting himself over it, though.
The hits on JFnK just keep coming
" "If you wind up being less than what you’re pretending to be, there is a major confrontation with value and self-esteem and your sense of how others view you."
Bet this is what Kerry's has shrink told him so often, he can say it from memory.
This bite doesn't fit Kerry's speech pattern- I have yet to hear the doofus say anything remotely intelligent when he has to speak extemporaneously.
"Is anyone noticing a pattern here?"
We are -the lazy media refuses to .
Great find.
He's a certifiable liar who is also arrogant and careless. Kerry thought his past would NEVER catch up with him. Oh but it is and that's why his campaign's imploding.
I'm going to go out on a limb and predict:
If one person at the Republican National Convention says one thing that could conceivably be seen as insulting to John Kerry, there will be cries of outrage from Kerry and his lackeys, who will contend that their Convention took the high road discussing real issues, and never stooped to attacking the president personally.
I don't imagine he'll be shooting himself over it, though
It would be a pure shame if he did though. I'd mourn him.......for about 30 seconds.
And NOW he wants to talk anout issues and not vietnam...which he says he has for weeks.
What a joke. He played his cards the only way he could play them and its not gonna work. His schtick may play in liberal MA, but this is the big time, and the idiot from the land of kennedy and dukakis is out of his league.
It's because middle America is starting to show up on the election. His plan was to get a lead and hold on desparately, hoping it would hold and he could get a momentum slide. He didnt plan on his "war hero" tactic to lose ground before the RNC even started.....his momentum is all the farther its going to go. He needs something to go very, very bad on our side to get back in it. But one thing we know it will not be is a character issue with Dubya! They just cant believe that everyone is not like klinton! I love it!!
Kerry has incorrect v on his SS, after what Boorda did do you think Kerry
A permanent solution for a temporary problem.
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