Dittoes. I've kept a perfectly open mind about the Swift Boat matter but have yet to find any credible refutation. It seems to me if Kerry was slandered or libeled by untrue accusations, he has full access to the court system to defend his "honor," along with virtually unlimited funds to press his legal case. Yet the WaPo piece dismisses the whole issue as a proven smear.
I have no idea whether Obama's a Muslim. I do know he was a 20-year member of a Black Liberation Theology church with a minister who outspokenly hates America. I do know Obama never took public issue with the church's anti-Americanism until it became politically expedient to do so. I do know he's a racist. That's enough for me to vote against him.
There are several people still living who were there who say it wasn't a smear (hence the name, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth).
Sadly, it has now become a "smear" to merely point out what a left-wing candidate has said or done.
Now, as to conservative/Republican candidates...see Dan Rather and his Texas National Guard documents.
Exactly. Where were the Swifties bebunked? I haven't see it. Given how quickly and thoroughly the notion "Swiftboating" has been established, with all of its negative meaning, you'd think that at least a handfull of the debunking counterarguments against the Swift Boaters would be well known. But again, I can't think of one, and I don't think it's because I've been avoiding them.