The Swift Boaters clearly stated that Kerry LEFT the scene when the shooting started. You really don't have to go and farther into it than that. Americans believed the Boaters...because they couldn't have made up a story that good and have it stand. Hillary hasn't answered ONE SINGLE HARD QUESTION, and believe it folks, when the RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY really goes after this woman IF SHE RUNS, (which is questionable), they will show her up to be exactly what she is, a hard leftest liberal socialist whose beginnings started, during her lawschool and after, with Black Panther idology. She is a liberal socialist, and no matter what she tried to do and say, (like baby sitting transit workers children so they could attend church services...in Chicago no less in the 50's), she will always be shown up. I lived in the Chicago area during those years, and there WERE NO TRANSIT workers anywhere, only hard working unionized and otherwise, Americans.
"The Swift Boaters clearly stated that Kerry LEFT the scene when the shooting started."
In all fairness, I would have to point out that he did return later when the whole thing was over and all was safe to take a home movie of himself "in action". Has anyone counted the number of times during the war this guy was captured on film? Or should I say, "captured himself" on film. Talk about a long term plan. I wonder if there is a count of how many films there are of him in vietnam as opposed to someone like JFK whose family was already well known, and should have maybe been captured more. BUT, even though I think John Kerry would have been an absolute disaster for this country, he does get 1/2 of a respect point for actually going and actually being faced with a combat situation. It at least beats draft dodging, smoking dope in Europe and not inhaling during the war. But, I then revoke that 1/2 respect point because it is kind of sick when you see that he actually only took the chance of dying in the war so he could advance his goals in life. There is just too much "planned heroism" on his part. Just think, if by some horrible twist of fate, all of that swift boat crew had been wiped out but Kerry. Can you imagine what he would have portrayed himself as then?