Other than Kerry's 8-strong "band of brothers", I wonder if there's any other Vietnam vets who are going to vote for him...it still amazes me just how angry they are after all these years...its like they're taking their frustrations out on Kerry...serves Kerry right, of course; that asshat shouldn't have come home and called his comrades war criminals.
Dean:
He didn't deal with these guys months ago because he would have to apologize. He would have to admit that he was wrong about something he said and did. I do not see Sen. Kerry possessing that level of humility, that level of self-knowledge. The statement that he gave after he fell snowboarding that the Secret Service agent knocked him down is, I think, indicative of that mindset.
Personally, I do not think that I would want someone in the White House without some ability to be introspective. I do not think that Sen. Kerry has that ability, and the snowboarding, the SwiftVets incidents are demonstrative of this lack.
[N.B.: This is my opinion, guys. Opinion. I may be wrong, so don't take my head off; rather, convince me.]
Mark Noonan wrote:
"Other than Kerry's 8-strong "band of brothers", I wonder if there's any other Vietnam vets who are going to vote for him...it still amazes me just how angry they are after all these years...its like they're taking their frustrations out on Kerry...serves Kerry right, of course; that asshat shouldn't have come home and called his comrades war criminals."
No, he most certainly should not have done that. I'm not amazed at all that men who served their country, risked their lives, were wounded, crippled, blinded, or spent years in Communist P.O.W. camps, and then came home only to be spat upon by a bunch of rag-tag hippies, would still be seething about it, and would not want to see a traitor like Kerry strut and posture as the greatest war hero since Achilles and demand the Presidency as his birthright just because he was born in the West Wing (a TV show, for crime's sake!), and his initials are JFK.
I need a much better reason to vote for him than that. And so do our veterans.
"...to dog Kerry all throughout his expected?/putative?/unlikely? administration..."
Other than Kerry's 8-strong "band of brothers", I wonder if there's any other Vietnam vets who are going to vote for him...it still amazes me just how angry they are after all these years...its like they're taking their frustrations out on Kerry...serves Kerry right, of course; that asshat shouldn't have come home and called his comrades war criminals.
He didn't deal with these guys months ago because he would have to apologize. He would have to admit that he was wrong about something he said and did. I do not see Sen. Kerry possessing that level of humility, that level of self-knowledge. The statement that he gave after he fell snowboarding that the Secret Service agent knocked him down is, I think, indicative of that mindset.
Personally, I do not think that I would want someone in the White House without some ability to be introspective. I do not think that Sen. Kerry has that ability, and the snowboarding, the SwiftVets incidents are demonstrative of this lack.
[N.B.: This is my opinion, guys. Opinion. I may be wrong, so don't take my head off; rather, convince me.]
"Other than Kerry's 8-strong "band of brothers", I wonder if there's any other Vietnam vets who are going to vote for him...it still amazes me just how angry they are after all these years...its like they're taking their frustrations out on Kerry...serves Kerry right, of course; that asshat shouldn't have come home and called his comrades war criminals."
No, he most certainly should not have done that. I'm not amazed at all that men who served their country, risked their lives, were wounded, crippled, blinded, or spent years in Communist P.O.W. camps, and then came home only to be spat upon by a bunch of rag-tag hippies, would still be seething about it, and would not want to see a traitor like Kerry strut and posture as the greatest war hero since Achilles and demand the Presidency as his birthright just because he was born in the West Wing (a TV show, for crime's sake!), and his initials are JFK.
I need a much better reason to vote for him than that. And so do our veterans.