Posted on 05/02/2004 9:25:57 AM PDT by xsysmgr
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:41:59 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Discrete facts, to say nothing of truth, have a rough time in presidential campaigns.
When Sen. John Kerry called President Bush's supporters "the most crooked lying group I've ever seen," his campaign spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said Mr. Kerry didn't regret his words and then accused the "Republican attack machine" for smearing the Democrats. Such exchanges may be par for the course in a hotly contested presidential race, but overheated rhetoric may not be Mr. Kerry's most grievous fault.
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There are two notable things about Kerry's reaction. First, he tried to transfer blame to this antiwar comrades -- note that it does not say anitwar former servicemen he knew because most in The Winter Soldier project were not former servicemen -- but they were comrades as in Comrade Lenin and Comrade Stalin. Second, Kerry tacitly admits he did not determine whether the charges he was levying under oath to a U.S. Senate committee were true. In short, what he calls testimony is what Bill Blythe and other DemonRATS call testimony -- it's whatever serves their purposes at the time rather than what is true.
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