DISQUS

Jazz My beef with Kerry primarily focuses on his testimony upon returning from Vietnam, where he attested to atrocities that he had seen. This of course shot him to national attention, but at what cost? Kerry supporters defend his act by suggesting that he was just telling the truth, although we knew war is hell, and guerilla war particularly so, and thus it isn't clear what Kerry's testimony added to national understanding.

The act gets to dishonorable when one considers the impact it would doubtlessly have had on his brothers-in-arms. Imagine if you had served on Kerry's swift boat, and one day you find your wife watching tv and saying "Hey...Alec...that guy you served with - John Kerry - is testifying that he saw men (fill in the blank with any atrocity). Was that....you?"

Dishonorable. As it gets.

I also said unappealing, that is based mainly on my assessment of his perpetually smug demeanor.

Joe Mama Jazz is exactly right re Kerry's Senate testimony, although Kerry wasn't just attesting to "atrocities that he had seen," but in fact many that he hadn't, since Kerry effectively slimed every one of his fellow servicemen in Vietnam as a bunch of "Gengis Kahns." Having thus made a name for himself, he then had the audacity to show up for his party's convention some 30 years later as "reporting for duty," presumably thinking that none of his fellow vets would remember what he said about them. My father, himself a Vietnam vet, almost fell out of his chair watching that. I always said that I wish there was a measure of how many Vietnam vets voted for Kerry vs those who didn't. My guess is the latter number would be far, far greater than the former. Jazz is right: Dishonorable. As it gets.

Marty yeah what he said...

i'm definitely hung over today too. ugh.

Craig Technically, that is not necessarily an insult. Karol Wotyja is such a great man, one of the greatest of the 20th and 21st century, that I have to admit I am in as much or worse position.

For me though these great thinkers would spring out of my external nose hairs. I never suffered from the backne.

Craig Yes, that was quite odd of him to give no credit to the human and worldly instruments.

Stop talking about people who you could not hold a candle to if 10 Albert Einsteins and 40 Martin Luther Kings sprang out the pimples on your back one morning.

Craig rational basis review. The Supreme Court has reserved jurisdiction to invalidate laws that in its perception do not have a rational basis. Obama will determine the new character of the Court, so there will be no force of law to protect dissenters from legal and social ("racism racism racism!") marginalization. Also liberals are going to bring back that Fairness Doctrine to silence (at least in part) the voice against them in Talk Radio,

Any idea of freedom that we agree upon is dying, friend.

When 35 years of political progress for women (leaving room for abandonment of paternalistic federal control), and increase in viability for unborn children, and the public is made aware of the profiteering of the abortionist industry as well as the perceptible humanity of the gestating fetus through high def fetal photos . . . With all this to inform their conscience, and thousands of children are tossed to the slaughter each day, and voters and politicians still support a platform of abortion on demand. This my friend, shows that we long ago, at some time unknown, hit the high water mark of human civilization. Perhaps it was when George W. Bush maintained his opposition to embryonic stem cell funding against popular demand, or when he signed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban. Who knows. It was surely over when we forced Terri Shiavo to starve and deyhdrate to death (Obama's favorite legislative accomplishment, and one he wishes he had done more to expedite). But we turned our backs on the path to reform, and our Death is imminent. May it be faster than unneccessary pain, but slow enough to permit sharp witted fool to repent of his political crimes against humanity in that moment of abject humilation.

Craig See this is the scary thing about the enchanted Obama files. If every argument against his will does not pass the rule of reason, how long before such arguments have not the protection of the law. Change shall not be obstructed by unreasonable diversions. The electorate mandated change. The enemies of change must not prevail against it. The people have spoken.

I know better than you know.

Craig I appreciate your well wishes.

I thought I had arrived at my conclusions through the application of reason.

I thought it was reasonable to divine that Obama's running from his pro-abortion past in the Illinois Senate was total bullshit as many of his defenses are proven false.

I thought it was reasonable to suppose that Obama's defenses about his questionable associates were bullshit when his beachheads were repeatedly destroyed by facts forcing him to retreat further up the sand and proffer another.

I thought it reasonable to find Obama's withdrawl from his public financing commitment to evince a lack of integrity or autonomy.

I thought it reasonable to review Mr. Obama's experience and have concerns that he could not proffer one person who his decades of efforts lifted out of poverty.

I thought it reasonable to be concerned about the non-stop class warfare of the by the Obama campaign, attempting to exploit the saddened poor against the evil rich, actively shrouding the good that the wealthied class does for the needy irrespective of government force.

I thought it reasonable that a man so purportedly committed to transparency in government and honesty would not so constantly by misleading the public.

But I suppose I was the one full of shit. Having no redeeming value to my intellect, no signs of personhood distinct from the quiet late-term womb-dweller, I resign myself to being disposed of this world by the Democratic secularchy to come.

Fare-four-seven-well again, friends.

Just kidding. I'm not leaving this time.

irishtrojan If so, I must have misunderstood the snippet of conversation I overheard.

B. Minich Very nice Wolf Blitzer!

irishtrojan LOL!!