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-Obama, explaining recent Democrat losses, 1/20/10
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Kerry’s comments about troops this week are a reminder of similar comments he’s made before
The media, thankfully, are doing their homework on this story – I have to give them props for it, because I predicted they’d act as apologists for Kerry and co. But they’re hammering home points they usually reserve for Republicans. Via AP:
WASHINGTON (AP) – During a Vietnam-era run for Congress three decades ago, John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer Army because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable and be more prone to “the perpetuation of war crimes.”
Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran who turned against the war, made the observations in answers to a 1972 candidate questionnaire from a Massachusetts peace group.
After Kerry caused a firestorm this week with what he termed a botched campaign joke that Republicans said insulted current soldiers, The Associated Press was alerted to the historical comments by a former law enforcement official who monitored 1970s anti-war activities
Kerry apologized Wednesday for the 2006 campaign trail gaffe that some took as suggesting U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq were undereducated. He contended the remark was aimed at Bush, not the soldiers.
In 1972, as he ran for the House, he was less apologetic in his comments about the merits of a volunteer army. He declared in the questionnaire that he opposed the draft but considered a volunteer army “a greater anathema.”
“I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown,” Kerry wrote. “We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities present during Vietnam. I also fear having a professional army that views the perpetuation of war crimes as simply ‘doing its job.’
Sound familiar?
Speaking of denigrating our troops …
Update: Although I think the media has done a good job on covering this story, I exclude the NYTimes from my praise, precisely for this reason.
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is Kennedy working for the KGB any better? Here’s Kennedy undermining Carter in the 80s
I’m glad you posted that link to Sey Hersh, S.T. I just read it yesterday. What a dirtbag he is. I hope he gets to meet some of our Iraq vets face to face so he can call them the most murderous army directly to their face. Think that will happen?
How wonderful it must be to sit behind your podium all your life and pass out judgements to those who really do make a difference in the world. Hersh sounds like a bitter, old hack who can do nothing to make a difference himself, other than trashing our government. How sad…….
Someone got orders to get rid of Kerry in 08. Make him look bad we neutralize him in 08. You watch this stuff will be brought up next year when they start yakin’ about Presidential runs. – Lorica
I won an argument with a very liberal friend who was trying to defend Kerry.
I asked him the last time he said something stupid to his wife that she took the wrong way, did he apologize and try to make it up to her, or did he just say “This is what I meant, and you’re a stupid b!tch if you don’t understand that.”
He says, “Okay. I see your point.”
I agree with Lorica. The talking points have gone out, “Kerry must sleep with the fishes.” As Rush noted in his broadcast today, the media certainly must have come across this stuff in ‘04 but sat on it. No pimp in his right mind is going to tell a customer his “product” has VD, but now that it’s recognised how diseased Kerry is he’s become a liability. They’re going to b**ch-slap him and leave him in the gutter
S.T. -
You are right about the broadcast media, but I respectfully disagree when it comes to some of the major newspapers (esp the liberal ones!
Rehashed nonsense about Abramoff actually made the front-page of the Washington Compost, NY Slimes, USA Today and (surprise) the Wall Street Journal.
But this was not only a telling story about the MSM…it was VERY telling about a certain Pompous Liberal Senator’s true colors.
In the unabridged Websters, this faux pas of Kerry’s should be featured first on the list of classic Freudian Slips.
He may very well have unintentionally said what he did, but given his history of doing this sort of thing (the “Ghengis Khan” statement, the “Troops terrorizing women and children in the dead of night” snafu…etc) I honestly believe that we have again glimpsed the man’s true feelings toward our military.
But you must admit – this elitist prig is a gift to the Republicans…one that truly keeps on giving!
Cheers, Timmer
Victor Davis Hanson – one of the most brilliant columnists around – nails it:
Hanson lays the whole Kerry problem out in 8 undeniable points. Give it a good read.
VDH is brilliant and if English is a familiar language to you, an interesting as well as, insightful and informative read (small r and an a)