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

To: Andrew N. Cothran who wrote (42629)	8/13/2004 9:27:41 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Andrew, Like it or not, my eyebrow cocks when I read a piece in which a former two-term president of the United States is referred to as "Slick Willie" and the current senator from New York as "his wife." Further, my eyebrow raises when a piece entitled "John Kerry--A Question of Character?" does not even mention its protagonist until more than midway through. It appears that the author of the piece would very much like us to hear "Clinton" when we read "Kerry". And here is the nut of the piece: Now comes John Kerry, with soi-disant advance billing as a “Vietnam War hero,” a scandal all his own. Fellow soldier John O’Neill and co-author Jerome Corsi have written Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, a devastating critical examination of Kerry’s claim to war heroics. Here the author has made a sad leap of logic in assuming that O'Neill and Corsi's book is fact rather than opinion. A memoir does not a scandal make. And then there is this bit of silliness: Since Kerry has studiously avoided mentioning his 19-year Senate career and liberal voting record in favor of positioning himself as an honored veteran, a major scandal challenging both the facts and his integrity could literally blow his swift boat out of the water. The author's use of the word "liberal" as though it were something awful tells me this piece comes from some dark rightwing shadow-place like World Net Daily. Have I guessed correctly? I see you did not provide the source. I think it's remarkable that the author says Kerry has "studiously avoided mentioning" his nineteen years of public service in the Senate. I can't decide whether the author is miserably poorly-read or that he's indulging in that childhood fantasy of "if I say so,it will become that way." No barking from me, but a warning growl: please don't waste my time. If you want a substantive discussion with me about Kerry, bring me a real bone with some meat on it.