Posted on 09/05/2004 10:29:40 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Sen. John Kerry's campaign biographer Douglas Brinkley said Sunday that if an ongoing Navy investigation into Kerry's military decorations turns up evidence of "purposeful" deception, it could spell doom for the top Democrat's White House bid.
Praising reporter Thomas Lipscomb, who broke news of the Navy investigation on Friday, Brinkley told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg, "Journalists are going to have to see whether there's a discrepancy on [the citations posted to Kerry's] web site - whether there's something wrong that's said there or not."
"If so," said the "Tour of Duty" author, "Kerry would have to fix it immediately - and it does raise some questions as to why that would happen."
"Is it sloppiness, is it purposeful intent, is there an easy explanation for it?" Brinkley wondered.
He said that while questions raised by the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth about Kerry's war record have been very damaging, "so far they haven't been lethal." But Brinkley predicted that a discrepancy with Kerry's medals could seriously escalate his political problems.
Asked if inconsistencies uncovered by the Navy probe could be the "death knell" for Kerry's campaign, Brinkley told Malzberg, "It could."
In the next breath he hastened to add, however, "Right now it's unclear. So we have to just wait to see what all this adds up to."
The presidential historian called on Kerry to authorize the release of his full military file, saying, "Clearly some of these military records should be made available to the press."
getting on the ballot would be an issue. Electoral college, remember how that works.
If Clarke knew about it then the Clintons know about it, and it will be revealed according to their schedule and timetable.
I agree. As for which award is "most important," I suppose arguments can be made from all sorts of angles. The 1st PH seems to be the most vulnerable to being ruled improvidently granted (by the public, official action not being so much relevant in a political race). Once one award is drawn into serious question, the others will suddenly become more vulnerable. Serendipity will decide which domino is the first to fall, if any.
The Lehman connection, and obtaining replacement medals is not as big a deal, in my mind, as falsification of event reports in order to obetain the award in the first place. But, I know that each observer is more or less affected by each chink in Kerry's facade. In the end, it doesn't matter which chink results in distrust of candidate Kerry.
I agree IF you have an honest election and if Slick remains alive.
The electronic voting machines can be "fixed" in 5 minutes--somebody tried it and timed it from the time they picked the lock on the door till they walked back out and relocked the door.
Now think back one or two days to how the people HERE (who know exactly what the Scumbag is) were reacting to his illness. Many were flaming anyone who wasn't praying for his immediate and total recuperation. Imagine the people out there who never knew or don't remember Chinagate, Filegate, 100 other gates and a ton of unusual deaths...
Now consider if someone Fosterizes him. OK, heart attacks him rather than shooting him, but he gets dead and we have a full week of MSM covering the funeral which would treat him like a hero and a wonderful ex-president who gave us the best prosperity, peace, etc until we all gag to death.
I think the Beast might ride that corpse right into the White House, propelled by electronic fraud and foolish emotional hysteria. Please, God, protect us from that.
Technically it's a Hagiography.
hag·i·og·ra·phy [ hàggee óggrəfee, hàyjee óggrəfee ] (plural hag·i·og·ra·phies)
noun
1. biography of saint: biography of a saint or the saints
2. biography revering its subject: biography that treats its subject with undue reverence
"Hillary kills bin laden."
The RATs would use that to totally discredit the SBVT, and W would suffer a big political price as well. I'm not so sure this issue is a slam dunk winner for us.
See # 142. I mean if Bush has to beat Hillary, her theft of furnishings from the White House would just have to come up again. (Sorry for the confusion.)
The DNC can change candidate at any time, up to the date the electors (not us, voters) cast their ballots in December.
What the DNC won't be able to easily do, and they may not care, is change the name of the presidential candidate on the voters ballot in each and every state. But naming the presidential candidate on the voters ballot is merely a convenience for voters. When the voter pulls a party lever, the voter's vote actually goes to an elector. Electors and their alternates have already been timely named by their respective parties.
As a practical matter, the DEM party wants to come up with a scenario that results in obtaining a majority of the electors' votes. But there is no legal impediment to changing the candidate -- even after the November election (it would be bizarre, but it is legal and possible).
See http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/3/ch1.html <-- 3 USC 1
US Code, Title 3 CHAPTER 1 - PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND VACANCIES
The DEM party has been fighing against Nader's PARTY, not just Nader the candidate.
Kerry doesn't want to be associated with Teddy at all at this point in the election process. Kerry is trying to play down and obscure the fact that he is the #1 liberal in the Senate.
wouldn't surprise me, but the dike wouldn't win.
she would lose by more than kerry.
America despises her.
Other women despise her.
only her dyke constituency and their compatriots in communism woudl stick. the core.
35 percent hillary
62 percent bush.
end of hillary's political career as rudy sharpens the long knives for her senate seat.
They can try to put Castro on the ticket.
Two years and one day.
He probably didn't know that the SS didn't need a "V" device.
Perhapes we should call Larry Klaymen of Judicial watch
Well, she won't have to "run" if her name comes up late enough in the cycle. I doubt her name will be any ballot. But that does not mean she cannot obtain the Office of President (see Gerald Ford).
I doubt though, that she'll be considered as a Presdential candidate this year, in any event. She might be named as VP candidate. There is no down side to that. She can't be a loser without running, so there is no harm to her crowd appeal by being on a losing ticket.
I have thought for many months that the DEM party would not have Kerry as its candidate come November. But that's just my imaginative speculation working overtime. KErry is worse than a zero, he is a fraud, and if that is uncovered before the election (his character should be accurately presented before the election, for the good of the country), then it would be best for the country if he withdrew from contention, don't you agree?
And you people need to lighten up and enjoy the commiecRATs self-destruction.
They selected a total moron
There really is no reason for you to be insulting morons by comparing them to commiecRATs.
Even idiots would resent such a comparsion.
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Seriously though I do agree with your "Kerry the unknown" assessment.
I had no idea until this election that Kerry was the commie who bad mouthed vets back in 71. I remember throwing things at my TV back then.
I'll forgive him the same day I forgive his girlfriend Jane "Hanoi" Fonda.
Remember in 2000 how Bob Bechtel* was threatening to go around to various Electors to convince them or bribe them to cast their vote for Gore? (*IIRC it was Bechtel. Might have been some other Rat.) Though Bechtel or whoever either chickened out or failed in his attempts, the threat was there and it was a serious one.
Also, remember way back in '72 IIRC that one elector cast a vote for the Libertarian. IMO those things are far more strange than what you've laid out and they are not speculation--they happened. They're history.
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