I have not said anyting like curtisgardner's posts. I think Kerry's service record if very important and absolutely a topic for discussion.
My complaint is that there have been extremely far-fetched claims made, that now seem to be becoming received as facts, when there is not one scintilla of evidence that they are true. Such as Kerry having been dishonorably discharged.
Kerry was the most famous ex-military leader of the anti-war movement. Kerry, during this period was constantly running for political office, using his service records as his main selling point. Kerry was loathed by most of the military, especially the Navy.
You have to be smoking crack to believe he would have gotten a less than honorable discharge and that fact wouldn't have leaked out at the time. Also, you have to be crazy to think that discharge would be changed by Carter or anybody, and that fact wouldn't have been leaked out.
All of this conjecture is based on two thin reeds. The dates of his discharge--which were thoroughly explained by many a ex-Navy officer on this very board. And the fact Kerry couldn't get into a better law school than Boston College.
Well, truth to tell, BC is a pretty good law school. And it is a slight miracle he even got into there with his grades at Yale. Besides, do you think BC would have let him in with a dishonorable dischange for protesting the war (and betraying his country) when Harvard Law--the home of the most commie lawyers in the world (Critical Legal Studies) wouldn't?
Again, just preposterous.