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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jim-thompson who wrote (569333)	4/27/2004 10:01:15 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

Actually Kerry thinks the fatal damage done to his image in the last several days has to do with whether he threw ribbons or medals, or his or someone else's. That, once again, shows the detachment from reality of the anti-American left. The gross insult of ANY act, whether he lies about it or not, is not LOST on 80% of the American people he is insulting. It was most assuredly NOT respectable to stab America in the back on Vietnam in the early 70's, regardless of how many aging anti-Americans, surviving in the media, like to pretend it was. We sent the massage to Hanoi George McGovern in 1972. We are sending the message to Hanoi John Kerry in 2004. When will the domestic enemy finally GET IT?...

To: jim-thompson who wrote (569333)	4/27/2004 7:06:04 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 769670

Jim, Kerry#2 has plenty of time to choke on the microphone some more. Bush should just sit back and watch. Steve

To: jim-thompson who wrote (569333)	4/27/2004 7:19:17 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

At Home: In 1971, Kerry, a leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, joined with other demonstrators as they threw their medals over the White House fence. When the incident is recounted, Kerry takes pains to explain that he opposed the returning of medals as a tactic and returned none of his own (three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star). He did throw the medals of a veteran from Worcester, Mass., who could not come to Washington, and he also threw several of the ribbons he had received with his own medals. Kerry's ambivalence about the war protests of his day may be shared by much of his generation. But it also fits the pattern of irony in Kerry's career. He has never fully divested himself of the trappings of his privileged youth or his career as a decorated naval officer. But his political rise has been notable for its antiestablishment tone. He became a national figure in the 1971 Vietnam protests, gaining front-page coverage by asking the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” He tried to exploit the publicity by moving to Lowell and running in the open 5th Congressional District in 1972. Kerry won his 10-way primary, but lost in the fall to Republican Paul Cronin. After that defeat, Kerry went to law school, and worked as assistant district attorney in Middlesex County. In 1980, he bowed out of a House campaign in a second suburban district in favor of fellow liberal Barney Frank. goldworld.net * * *