Posted on 06/30/2008 7:00:47 PM PDT by kristinn
Failed 2004 Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) lashed out today at the most decorated living American serviceman, Col. Bud Day, who was awarded the Medal Honor for his heroism as a POW during the Vietnam War.
Kerry attacked Day for his role in the McCain Truth Squad (a new effort by presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain to defend his military service from criticism) because of Day's participation in the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth (SBVT) 2004 campaign which criticized Kerry's service in Vietnam as a junior naval officer and his actions protesting the war when he returned home. The scathing attacks by the SBVT and Kerry's weak response are widely credited with sinking his candidacy.
In a McCain Truth Squad conference call with reporters today, Day defended the SBVT, saying, "The Swift Boat attacks were simply a revelation of the truth, the similarity does not exist here. What the Swift Boat campaign was about was to lay out John Kerry's record. John Kerry has never produced any evidence to deny that. We are producing the evidence of these attacks right now to show that those remarks were completely inaccurate."
Kerry responded with a statement to the press: "Colonel Day's comments today only further highlight the McCain campaign's disregard for a new kind of politics. John McCain condemned these kinds of attacks in 2004 when he called the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth 'dishonest and dishonorable.' Senator McCain should condemn these remarks and cut ties with the Colonel and anyone else connected to SBVT. Day's comments only serve to disparage all those who served on swift boats in Vietnam."
Kerry served in Vietnam for a few months.
Day was held prisoner of war by the North Vietnamese from 1967-1973. McCain and Day were cellmates at the Hanoi Hilton.
He is such a fool.My 5 year old can pitch a baseball or football better than this assclown.Just shows the rats are a bunch of pussies.
Or, in Kerry's case, the lack thereof. ;-)
Who should I side with here? The Dems or...Col. Day? Hmmm. This is so hard. I just cannot make up my mind.
I drove around up here in the PRM with this sticker on my car window for about 9 months spanning the election, and the bumper sticker (with my conservative cat guarding it as well from Liberal vandals):
My skateboarding accident when I was 12 caused more grievous injuries than John Kerry’s 3 Purple Hearts!
How true...we should take anything he says with a grain of rice. After all, he is talking out of his a**.
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