Kerry is not as smart as he thinks

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 11/02/06 | Toby Harnden

[Bonaparte]

Good post. I would only add that Bush did not "circumvent" serving in Vietnam. Many ANG went to Vietnam and Bush knew quite well that he could be sent also.

It was kerry who threw a fit when he was transferred inland from coastal patrol in Vietnam. It was kerry who ran from a fire fight in which his men were in trouble. And it was kerry who arranged to be sent home long before his tour was up. This is the behavior the writer refers to as "serving with some distinction."

[Renfield]

Bump for later read.

[pabianice]

Kerry served with some distinction in Vietnam. It is a question mark over the character of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney that they chose to circumvent the draft rather than serve their country in combat. But Kerry's persistent attempts to capitalise on this have become unseemly.

This is just plain wrong and shows the writer doesn't understand the US military. Many of us joined the Navy or Air Force during Vietnam, not to "avoid the draft," but to try and become part of an elite force, such as US military aviation. Once having made it into that very tough pipeline, we were eventually assigned to whatever squadron the service wanted, whether it was direct combat, combat support, or logistic. The author of this piece does not understand that.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

good one.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"This is just plain wrong and shows the writer doesn't understand the US military"

What did Kerry ACTUALLY supposedly do to get whatever he got? I thought there was some questions in regard to this. Now everyone repeats the mantra "Kerry had a great record and you can't take it away from him", or words to that effect.

I'm no Kerry expert, but I thought he took three things with him when he went to Vietnam, 1) an agenda, 2) a film projector, and 3), a bullet to shoot in the back of some naked boy running in a loin cloth so that Kerry could claim enemy action. am I wrong here?

[bray]

After 40 years of sticking knives in Soldiers' Backs he sticks it in his own!

Pray for W and The Election

[Grampa Dave]

What the US Army recruiting poster under "President" Kerry would look like:

Our brave warriors n Irak respond to Jon Carry"

Kerry is no different re his hatred of a strong America and our warriors than 99.9% of the rats in congress. Every rat running for election should have to face a copy of this banner everytime they show their treasonous faces. Pelosi, Murtha, Clintoon, Boxer, Kennedy, Durbin, Levin, Rangle, Reid and other rats in congress hate our military and a strong America. Just look at their voting records the past two years as President Bush pointed out this week.

Kerry is shown leading his fellow hate America and our military Rats to their final destination in American Politics:

Vote against all traitors this election day. Support our troops and their CIC, President Bush.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

It may be that John Kerry is mistaking ridicule for humor. Perhaps he really did think this was a droll dry sort of "joke", something not obvious to the rest of us. It was our fault for "not getting it" and confirmation of his listeners stupidity. ( If I can get sociological, it seems that his reference group--Eastern liberal Brahman Democrat--uses ridicule to reinforce group identity by disparaging non member's intelligence and confirming their own. (Finally, I, a use for my 3 credit hours in Soc. 101!)

Long and short is that he has exposed himself as a pompous failure, even to his own party. I don't see another presidential run in his future. Everyone can rejoice.

[sam_paine]

Eastern liberal Brahman Democrat-

I've seen all sorts of folks use this term. I always thought it was a humpback breed of cattle from India. What/!?!?!?@

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Well shoot fire! Anywhere normal folk barbecue it's a cow! In MA its an upper curst blue blood Harvard type.

Where does that come from? Well, Hindus have a caste system, with Brahmans occupying the top tier, and they believe in reincarnation, which means scummy people are re born in the lowest caste and superior people in the upper, or Brahman caste. Pretty convient for the Brahmans, huh?

Long and short, there is a de facto class system in the minds of NE liberals, and they are at the top.

[sam_paine]

Brahmans occupying the top tier [of uppercrust society],

I seeee!

That explains where Kerry is so full of BS!

[neverdem]

bfl