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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (18870)	4/28/2004 1:49:12 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

I think you might want to check the order of events. In 1992, in support of Clinton, Kerry urged people not to focus on Vietnam or military service. From the outset of the Kerry campign, he's focused on Vietnam and his military service. As I recall, there were months of claims and attacks from the Kerry side about Bush being AWOL, and a clamoring for his records. By February of this year, however, Kerry himself was taking the high road and declined to criticize Bush's National Guard service, saying something like everyone served in different ways. More recently, ABC News came up with the apparently conflicting statements from Kerry about whether he did, or did not, throw his "medals." Last Monday, Kerry appeared on GMA and crossed swords with Charlie Gibson about this. During that interview, Kerry tried to deflect the questions by personally attacking Bush's service (where was he? etc. etc.) Kerry thereby took the offensive and himself descended into the "AWOL" claim arena against Bush. So, unless I'm mistaken, Kerry initiated his personal attack against Bush on this issue in response to ABC's surfacing of his "throwing away the medals" issue. When you get the order straight, you can see that Kerry made a huge blunder in going on the offensive when he did and under the circumstances he did. He can blame ABC for provoking him, but ultimately he made the blunder all on his own. He should have stuck to the high road.