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

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (76527)	5/29/2006 1:03:53 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Yes, the politics of division is getting old and people are seeing through it. Doesn't mean that bias doesn't exist, though. I do not number myself among the Kerry haters. I used to like him before he ran for President and I saw more of him. Since I live in Massachusetts, I've seen quite a bit of him. I read the Globe which was actually of two minds about him - they were doing their best to loyally puff him, but it's plain that nobody really liked him very much personally. Tales of his aloofness run all over Boston. If they could only have found a Kennedy to run, then you would seen real love and loyalty! But not for Kerry. However, the klieg lights of a Presidential campaign showed up some unlovely Kerry personality traits - namely a habit of telling self-aggrandizing lies (foolish lies, the kind that can be debunked in about a minute in this Internet age) then crying foul when called on them. It bespoke a bad combo of ego and insecurity. Christmas in Cambodia was the most famous such tall tale, but once you saw the pattern, you saw other cases. Kerry's trouble was, that there was a ready corps of men (and women) who still hated his guts for his 1971 testimony, who were ready to call him on every single exaggeration, especially as it turns out that this pattern of puffing himself extended all the way back to his short military career. I'm sure Karl Rove would have hired them, but the beauty of the situation was that he didn't have to - they were all volunteers. They remembered every instance of Kerry's putting in for Purple Hearts for scratches, etc, which at the time was probably just seen as sleazy, but in retrospect became unforgivable. I don't know what possessed Kerry to think he could run as a Vietnam war hero when he had come back and testified that the American army committed war crimes daily and it was known up and down the command chain. He had never apologized for that testimony - was he now pretending to be proud of being a war criminal? Or if his testimony was inaccurate, didn't he owe an apology to the men who had come home to be spat on as baby killers, largely due to his convincing, televised testimony? You have only to read the milblogs today, and a day won't go by that someone doesn't say what they suffered. Only today, I read a posting from a woman whose husband was serving on a Swift Boat in 1971, whose son's 2nd grade teacher told him not to pray for Daddy because God didn't like baby killers. When the woman went to the school principal and demanded explanations, John Kerry's testimony was cited to her as evidence.