[Hoodat]

Kerry really was in Vietnam, and probably also in Cambodia. It seems likely to me that he confused Tet with Christmas in his mind and wound up sounding like a pathological liar.

If he was talking about Tet, then he is even a bigger liar. The Tet Offensive also occurred during LBJ's tenure and a full 11 months BEFORE his Christmas story. Either way, Nixon wasn't President.

[Repeat Offender]

Yeah. My original post was a joke comparing Blumenthal to Hillary to Kerry. Another poster tried to jump in and defend Kerry (the part you quoted was his).

I was trying to expeditiously demonstrate Kerry was a liar and hence his inclusion in my sarcasm. The other poster was trying to give Kerry a pass by saying Jean F'n Kerry may have just been confused over "Tet" and "Christmas."

I no longer find my sarcsm as humorous after having to explain it to the slow.

[devere]

“If he was talking about Tet, then he is even a bigger liar. The Tet Offensive also occurred during LBJ’s tenure and a full 11 months BEFORE his Christmas story. Either way, Nixon wasn’t President.”

Kerry talked about hearing the Christmas celebrating when Nixon sent him into Cambodia in 1968. Of course Nixon wasn’t President until January 20, 1969, and I for one wrote Kerry off as a pathological liar (to say nothing of a Liberal!). There was another Tet offensive in February 1969, and Nixon did retaliate inside Cambodia. It seems most likely to me that Kerry had a faulty memory and confused Christmas 1968 with Tet 1969; and that may have cost him the Presidency. Perhaps it was poetic justice for all the terrible things he said about his fellow American soldiers.