Posted on 08/24/2004 8:07:05 AM PDT by Callahan
Edited on 08/24/2004 8:36:11 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE AUG 24, 2004 11:09:31 ET XXXXX
KERRY PHONES SWIFT BOAT FOES
**Exclsuive**
Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry personally phoned anti-Kerry swift boat vets, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Kerry reached out to Robert "Friar Tuck" Brant Cdr., USN (RET) Sunday night, just hours after former Sen. Bob Dole publicly challenged Kerry to apologize to veterans.
Brant was skipper of the #96 and # 36 boat and spent time with Kerry in Anm Thoi. Kerry and Brant slept in the same quarters, and Brant used to put Kerry back to be at night when Kerry was sleepwalking.
Brant received a call from Kerry at his home in Virginia while he was watching the Olympics on TV.
The call lasted 10 minutes, sources tell DRUDGE.
KERRY: "Why are all these swift boat guys opposed to me?"
BRANT: "You should know what you said when you came back, the impact it had on the young sailors and how it was disrespectful of our guys that were killed over there.
[Brant had two men killed in battle.]
KERRY: "When we dedicated swift boat one in '92, I said to all the swift guys that I wasn't talking about the swifties, I was talking about all the rest of the veterans."
Kerry then asked if he could meet Brant -- man to man -- face to face.
Brant declined the invite, explaining that Kerry was obviously not prepared to correct the record on exactly what happened during Vietnam and what happened when Kerry came back.
Developing...
Exactly. This is an important flaw that is screaming to come out. kerry thinks that as long as he's insulting and lying about someone else, an honorable person wouldn't care about it. That's where he's wrong. An honorable man like O'Neil doesn't care if the insult is to him or someone else. He's not going to take an apology until it's directed at all the veterans. That's what kerry's personality flaw doesn't understand. It's in this sentance here:
KERRY: "When we dedicated swift boat one in '92, I said to all the swift guys that I wasn't talking about the swifties, I was talking about all the rest of the veterans."
I really don't want this guy as president.
**Brant declined the invite, explaining that Kerry was obviously not prepared to correct the record on exactly what happened during Vietnam and what happened when Kerry came back**
Thanks to Brant for standing up to Kerry.
"men like Kerry (women too)do not intentionally mean to hurt others"
People like this do not CARE who they run over and will intentionally hurt you if it serves their narcissim. Don't be fooled by your own caring heart - Kerry has none.
KERRY: "When we dedicated swift boat one in '92, I
said to all the swift guys that I wasn't talking
about the swifties,
I was talking about all the rest of the veterans."
TOAST--that's all folks
Kerry knows it, Kerry's C.O. knows it, Kerry's crew mates know it, I know it and anyone who served one day in combat in Nam know it!!!
PING
I'm sorry; if you don't appreciate my pointing out your foolishness in private, I will remember to do it in public from now on. It's your call.
What a pathetic pos.
Whatever floats your boat.......
When Kerry looked up Hoffman's number in his address book, he saw two "A.Hoffmans," making an honest mistake he dialed Admiral Hoffman rather than his old friend, Abbie.
"The little bit of liberal left in me wants to feel sorry for him because men like Kerry (women too)do not intentionally mean to hurt others. They only want to advance themselves and it never occurs to them that they might in their delusional self-centered."
That's called "collateral damage". That's what Kerry thinks about everyone but HIMSELF.
Who was to be the third person in the room?
It is WAY too late to apologize and expect to be elected.
He knows it. ALL the Demodogs know it. They're stuck with
trying to ride this out of hell and high water. They also
don't think it is going to work...
This is pitiful. He is finished.
Oh, so "all" the Marines, Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard in country were all war criminals, just not the Swifties. Aarggh!
I didn't think anyone could be so shallow as to call and grovel to the Swifties in an obvious attempt to get this monkey (that he put there) off his back and at the same time continue to insult and defame all veterans who served their country in Vietnam. I wonder what the mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters of those that died think of John Kerry.
I think Kerry's worse than most of us could ever have believed before.
He is done. This is awful.
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