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To: American Spirit who wrote (43729)	4/24/2004 8:55:33 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Gotta disagree there. You might not like her policies but she is brilliant and very qualified. The race card doesn't work here. Try again.

To: American Spirit who wrote (43729)	4/24/2004 9:35:12 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Powell would have gotten a top job with either administration (Gore offered too). There is no way that Powell would have taken a position in a Gore administration. Read "War in a Time of Peace" by David Halberstam and you will understand why. …he's admitted some of his language way back in 1971 was immature and hurtful to some. Message 20058619 Language that was “hurtful.” LOL. Kerry meant every word that he said during that period and you are in denial if you do not understand that the way he conducted himself is going to be an issue in the campaign. For some it will be a positive, for some a negative. Kerry has hedged on his language only because he is running for president. Why didn’t he say something thirty years ago. One more item. As I have noted to you on several occasions, Kerry is to be commended for his service in Vietnam. However, that service alone does not qualify him to serve as our Commander in Chief. I thought that you might be interested in reading the comments of your pen pal, Lyn Nofziger, on this issue. lynnofziger.com Let us stipulate (to use a legal term) that John F. Kerry is a genuine Vietnam war hero, that he earned his three Purple Hearts the hard way, that he deserves his two medals for valor, that he was much loved by those who served under him and that he was a competent junior naval officer. Let us then ask, why do these things, circa 1970, qualify him to be president? Much less a good president. What does fighting in a war as a very young man have in common with serving as president of the world’s preeminent power. No much, I think. If, as Kerry would have us believe, wartime combat experience is essential for one to be president, where does that leave that old draft dodger, Bill Clinton, where does it leave Franklin D. Roosevelt? Where does it leave Ronald Reagan who served in World War II but never heard a shot fired in anger. Ulysses S. Grant a Civil War hero is regarded as a great general and also one of our worst presidents. Kerry was a naval lieutenant in charge of about a dozen men. And off of that experience he tells us and wants us to believe that he’s qualified to run the United States. Now it may be that he is qualified. One never knows what kind of a job a president will do until he gets the job. But if he is elected, the kind of president he turns out to be will have nothing to do with the four months he spent in combat in Vietnam. There are, I should point out, several kinds of courage. Physical courage is one, and it appears that Kerry is a brave man. Political courage is another and it is a quality that many brave men do not have. Risking one’s life is one thing; risking one’s career or reputation or putting some one else in danger is something entirely different. Having one kind of courage sends a man into battle, lacking another kind keeps a man from making a key decision. And then, of course, there is moral courage. the kind of courage it takes to stand up for one‘s beliefs and not flip flop under pressure or for reasons of expediency. Moral courage like political courage, has nothing to do with physical courage which, if Kerry is elect, the nation may well discover. <snip>