Something like this...
Posted on 09/17/2004 2:52:44 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
The man who credits John Kerry with saving his life says the senator from Massachusetts must fight harder if he is to wrestle the presidency from George W. Bush.
A former green beret and retired law-enforcement lieutenant, Jim Rassmann said Thursday that Kerry must go on the offensive to end questions about his service in Vietnam and regain his political footing.
"He has to fight the campaign like he fought in Vietnam," Rassmann said after an appearance at a Veterans of Foreign War hall in Orlando. "He needs to go on the offensive, and I've told him that."
Rassmann is on a three-day visit to Florida campaigning for the Democratic presidential nominee. He has been working with the campaign since coming forward early this year to say that Kerry saved his life in Vietnam.
The senator, Rassmann said, pulled him from the Bay Hap River while Kerry's swift boat was under fire.
Kerry's actions, however, have been questioned by critics who claim he inflated his war record. Rassmann called those attacks "nonsense" but said they must be dealt with -- especially if Kerry is to make inroads with veterans and members of the military.
Polls show former and current soldiers favor Bush by a wide margin.
"He's responded," said Rassmann, "but I don't think he did so early enough or hard enough. I think that's going to change."
Despite the polls, Rassmann said, he has met many veterans who say they will vote for Kerry. Harry Meisel is one of them.
A retired swim coach and Battle of the Bulge veteran, Meisel showed up Thursday to meet Rassmann. He said he thinks the president has badly mishandled the war in Iraq.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
"He has to fight the campaign like he fought in Vietnam,"
He is...dirty, on the lowest level, without much competence, and getting out early.
As opposed to merely being passive-aggressive.
"John, whatever idiot crap you're spewing, keep spewing it some more. Only spew it A LOT LOUDER!!"
...incoming rice bombs
Doogle
Rassman did not retire from law enforcement, he was recently fired for sexual harrassment.
Aww, his sensitive, nuanced approach isn't working?
Being a girly-man, Kerry would have to ask his transsexual French-speaking wife for permission first. He doesn't have the balls to ask because Dan Rather has them in his back pocket.
I want to respond to this but I just can't decide which way to go.
> Rassmann apparently was brain damaged in the water accident ...
Suffice it to say that if we want to get all ad hominem
like with Rass, there are lots of issues in his recent
and distant past that help explain why he is sticking
to his story.
Being a "band" member is apparently his full time job
now, and if Kerry loses, Rass is probably facing
unemployment.
But his statements need to be confronted on their merits.
In the present case, it doesn't sound like he is making
any usefully specific recommendations to Kerry, nor
replaying his version of the bizarre Battle of the Bronze
Star.
> Kerry's actions, however, have been questioned by
> critics who claim he inflated his war record.
> Rassmann called those attacks "nonsense" but said
> they must be dealt with --
I can't disagree with that, although Kerry needs to
wait a few days and see what the SBVFT learn from
the recent USN Archives doc dump (as if they didn't
have enough that Kerry cannot deal with).
John Kerry is Bill Klinton in another suit. He's like some kind of vampire mask for Halloween. Scary.
This fat fool will ride into oblivion with Kerry.
He wants him to shoot some fleeing kid in the back?
He is, isn't he? He's making up his record to get out of the campaign and into the White House after which he will head to Paris to sell out the country and our military. Same playbook as far as I can tell.
> I want to respond to this but I just can't decide which way to go.
How about:
"I thought he was already _doing_ that. He's just not back up from downriver yet."
"Maybe he'll be back after the shooting is over, on Nov. 3rd."
Something like this...
*ping*
I have to say, how is one a hero, if one gives back their medals. I mean, he isn't a war hero, he said as much in the early 70s. He chose that action and now the consequences.
I have yet to read where someone says how ligit is this guy, he did serve for 4 months, why not 5 months or 25 years? He served, that is commendable but putting all his cookies in one basket at the convention has done him a disservice, he does not look like hero, just a whiner.
It's a pathetic man who at 60 some years old is so detached from the reality of what he did and what he caused. It's an arrogant man who thinks both sides owe him.
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