jg, your challenge to defend Kerry is typical of the narrow-minded, extremely partisan approach that is all too common today. Just because you defend all conservatives, regardless of how screwed up they are, doesn’t mean that a person who can think well would do the same for their side. Just because I think Bush and the republicans are destroying our country and needlessly killing thousands of Americans doesn’t mean that I like or will defend John Kerry. I think Kerry is a very poor excuse for a politician. I think that to say what he said (in prepared remarks, no less) shows a fantastic ignorance of a)how the right would respond and b) how ordinary people (voters) would respond.
Take PD’s, “Kerry just spit in the eye of all service members, current, past and future” comment. That’s the typical response of someone who wants to ignore what Kerry was so incredibly feebly trying to say, and focus on what partisan gains can be obtained by slamming him. Kerry didn’t spit in his own eye. He was attempting to point out that, for many Americans, the only route to college or decent pay is the military. And that for those Americans, Bush may very well get them killed or maimed. But he did it in such an amazingly inept way that only one response could be expected. And the typical such response was PD’s. Kerry deserves what he gets for being such an idiot.
As BuyerWillEPB said, “I see more honor, respect, and goal oriented teamwork from the vets, and more cut-throat, individualistic weakness, and arrogance from the pampered rich kids.” Which may explain the cut-throat, individualistic weakness and arrogance so common in the Bush administration. Most of them are spoiled, pampered rich kids and very few are combat vets. Kerry was a spoiled, pampered rich kid who went to combat anyway. Either way, there’s no excuse for saying something so stupid.
