But voting for Kerry would have demostrated so much greater acumen....

But voting for Kerry would have demostrated so much greater acumen....

Maybe so, but I for one have been advised by my doctor to cut down on that stuff. Cholesterol, you know.

I wonder if Kerry is pathological to the point that he thinks these events SHOULD be true, and that he has enough stature that everyone SHOULD believe him even when logic screams against it. It's the only explanation I have.

I swear you just can't make up stuff about Kerry that's funnier, dumber, and more satirical than the stuff he says and does to himself

This from a Bush supporter? Oh, the irony.

I am not one that swears, but at times it is completely necessary

You Can't Make This Shit Up. Yep, that pretty much is the truth isn't it?

and he's waiting to produce this "documentation" for what particular purpose?

John Kerry, the gift that keeps on giving

And this was the best candidate the Democrats could offer America for president in 2004?

No, but he's the one the primary voters selected. The two are often not the same.

What's a traitor (Hanoi John) to do except keep up the lies he's told for so many years he think's they're true. I just wonder how Momma 'T' can show her face in public now that she knows his stories were all lies. No Heinz products in this home since 04.

I actually voted against givin the country a good laugh, before I voted for it.

"You Can't Make This Shit Up" Actually, I like to use "You can't *pay* for entertainment like this."

"No matter the whopper you try to put in John Kerry's mouth, it will be dwarfed by the ones he himself utters."

Indeed, he was the gift that kept on giving. From when he walked on stage and uttered "...reporting for duty..." to his multiple fabulist statements about his military service and releasing his 180's he was a step ahead of the best satirists money could buy.

John Kerry keeps focusing on the SBVFT like they killed his candidacy by themselves. Maaybe he needs to also blame Osama for releasing his "Indirect Endorsement of Kerry by way Bashing Bush" video.

mantis, it was amazing to watch, actually. There *were* Dem candidates that the center would have voted for in 2004 and people *wanted* an alternative to Bush. Many people would have happily tossed Bush over the side if they'd been given an alternative that they believed would have fought the war we were in intelligently.

Which brings me to the Swift Boat stuff. Kerry was being presented, heavily, as someone fit to carry out the war in Iraq *because of* his military experience. He was a hero with medals and everything.

And us knuckle-draggers were supposed to think this was just great.

As I told many a person, MY military experience qualifies me every bit as much for the Presidency as John Kerry's. In other words... not at all.

The linked article is a hoot though. Kerry hasn't prepared *answers* or released his military records in full, he's prepared dossiers on his detractors.

Oy.

John Kerry, the gift that keeps on giving

Notice in the link Kerrry talks about how he has assembled a dossier on the people who criticized him. It doesn't sound so much as though he is prepared to counter their charges as he is to smear their names in retaliation.

Beginning of linked article:

"John Kerry said Monday there might be a next time for his presidential aspirations..."

I apologize for not reading the rest of the article. I just couldn't get past the first sentence.

It takes time to do it "smarter and better".

Ooops, that's Hillary's slogan now for '08.

Wordygirl,

I think that's it exactly.

It wasn't "Here's my form 180 to prove I was smeared", it was "I've got ammo, now that I've had time to investigate the SwiftVets".

I expect some (pointless and fabricated) smear against members of the Swiftboat Vets in the hopes it will somehow restore his dismal performance as both a soldier and as a man.

I don't care what he "thinks" he has, I credit the SwiftVets for pulling the curtain back on this pompous windbag.

God Bless the Swifties!

Kerry can never restore his dismal performance as a soldier, for he never was one.

``We have put together a documented portfolio that frankly puts their lies in such a total light of absurdity and indecency, that should they ever rear their ugly heads again, we have every single 't' crossed and 'i' dotted, and I welcome that in a sense,'' Kerry said

The perfect and legal place to use any accumulated "documented portfolio" would have been in a court of law and during any defamation suit brought by Kerry.

The pompous windbag let the statute of limitations run out in each venue he legally had available to him.

John Kerry was and still is a traitor.

This is still a hot issue as evidenced by the reaction to Rush Limbaugh's "Phony Soldiers." comment.
The Dim's are a little sensitive and defensive about it because they own so much stock in soldiers like Kerry....

No one thinks more highly of John Kerry than. . . JOHN KERRY.

The Swift Boats organization continued to have a have a very high negative impact for those members involved as well. A local Oregon prosecutor who once publicly praised Kerry's military service in a recorded public event, went on record claiming just the opposite with the Swift Boats Vets, when they asked him to participate, and nearly lost his job for later lying about an affair with a woman to his superiors. All of this only served to hurt his reputation and damage his role to effectively prosecute cases and not be undermined by defense lawyers.

The Swift Boats Vets must have Samson has their role model. They not only brought down Kerry, but crushed themselves as well, hurting their own reputations with an ongoing pattern of falsehoods.

I don't understand why he just doesn't come out and refute them will his portfolio of evidence now if it is so powerful.

Does he keep his portfolio in his magic hat?

but crushed themselves as well, hurting their own reputations with an ongoing pattern of falsehoods.

Do you have some proof of a pattern of falsehoods there Paul? Seriously, you've just made a serious allegation. If you can't back it up, you shouldn't have made it.

The only thing even close to showing they were wrong that I know of is that one of the guys got a Bronze Star in the same incident where Kerry got one of his medals.

Of course, the media ignored that he got the medal a year later, when he was stateside and what was he supposed to do? Tell the Navy to shove their medal? Of course, that was also before John Kerry told his lies in front of Congress during the Winter Soldier deal.

And remember, Kerry had to take back his "Christmas in Cambodia" story, his story of bringing a CIA operative into Cambodia (he still has the hat!) and more.

Hooson:

The Swift Boats Vets must have Samson has their role model. They not only brought down Kerry, but crushed themselves as well, hurting their own reputations with an ongoing pattern of falsehoods.

Crushed themselves?

And you base that on what? Must be something other than your single unattributed anecdote (Presumably Alfred French ONE of over 200 SBVT's).

BTW Hooson I dare you to take meet Beldar's challenge to name a single specific and material statement of fact by the Swift Boaters that has been fully debunked, or shown to be fully unsubstantiated.

Report when your head stops spinning. If ever.

John Kerry, the gift that keeps on giving

Looking on the bright side, if it wasn't for Kerrys fabrications of "serving" our nation, Slick Willy would not have had the opportunity to call Russert a "swiftboater" yesterday. Damn, that Mrs. Clinton sure needs protection from them swiftboatin journalist.

Let's all meet for tea in Laos----Kerry knows the way.......sort of.

Jay, I never really liked John Kerry all that much as well, and I actually supported what foreign policy goals in Vietnam Johnson and Nixon hoped to achieve back in those days, for better or worst, and opposed Kerry's antiwar efforts back then. But what exactly did the U.S. "dodge" by not electing Kerry in 2004 anyway? The Dow's down 360 points today. Oil is about $96 a barrel. The dollar is hitting record lows against other world currency. The trade deficit is terrible. The federal budget deficit is terrible. Iraq drags on like Vietnam and crushes any optimism for a quick end. Etc, Etc, Etc. Just curious?

Marc, I don't know if it's much use to be redebating the whole 2004 election by anyone at this point. This is 2007, and there's entirely new personalities seeking office at this point. But I was disappointed to see the military service of any soldier attacked in 2004, rather than their specific political views or proposals. The Swift Boats Vets attack was indeed unusual, and more damaging to the losing Kerry campaign than they expected for their failure to refute that campaign with facts of their own.

On the other side, it was claimed by some in 2004 that young Bush while a National Guard member in 1971 got a 15 year old girl pregnant and the family had to arrange an abortion and got arrested for cocaine possession and had his Guard service interupted by spending court ordered community service time at the Martin Luther King House in Houston by a Houston judge in order to satisfy conditions to have the drug case cleared and sealed. So some significant questions about the military service of both Kerry and Bush unfortunately exist among some detractors. But what's the point if these two young soldiers may not have always been model citizens according to some. This is 2007 and does any of this old news of young guys doing fool stuff help much?

21 straight quarters of economic growth didnt get a mention there Paul? Unemployment at all time low? Federal and State coffers chuck full of revenues?

You could be Chris Matthews "on the rocks" of those drunken talking points.

Iraq is in the process of "dragging" the left under the bus, with the progress thats happening NOW Paul:

Michael Yon: ""I don't believe this is a lull. I believe this is the real thing. I believe that we've seen lulls before, and I've always been very circumspect on taking a chance and saying hey, this is the real thing. But I've seen a change in the mood of the people, and it's remarkable. And I believe if we can just continue to help them progress, and we've got a little bit more serious fighting to do up in Ninewa Province, and then in Kirkuk and Salahaddin Province, and also out in Diayala Province, those four provinces. Other than that, I think really, it's a matter of pouring on the juice and helping them to get this country going again. I mean, they're just finished with the war, as long as we can help get the monkey off their back in the form of al Qaeda, which is pretty much crushed at this point."

The "quick end" may have materialized had it not been for the political games the left has accomplished by cheerleading for the enemy at every turn. BDS at it's finest.

Now that You mention it Paul Your right!

Kerry would have solved all these things with His superior intellect and kinder gentler nature..

Paul
John O'Neal has owned John Kerry for decades, going as far back as their first debate on the Dick Cavett show. Kerry is simply no match for a trained lawyer that is both articualte and has a grasp of the facts.....and reality.

As to your other points,the Dow has done well under Bush, particularly after 9/11:

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.aspx?C6=2007&PeriodType=8&D3=0&CP=0&PT=8&CE=0&&ShowChtBt=Refresh+Chart&DateRangeForm=1&Symbol=%24INDU&C8=2007&C5=11&C7=11&ComparisonsForm=1&D5=0&D4=1&ViewType=0&C9=2&DisplayForm=1

Is the president responsible for $96 a barrel oil? If so why? Do you want the President to propose trade tariffs to reduce the trade deficit and support the dollar?

Can't make this shit up.

Bah!!!!

Don't bother Paul with FACTS. What use are facts anyway? They merely get in the way of his BDS.

AWAY with your Facts!!!! I spit on them!!!

/sarcasm

Paul Hooson must be Lucy Ramirez.

It's speaks volumes that only Paul would slither out of the Liberal woodwork to defend ole John F'n Kerry. No other self-respecting leftie would.

And, he has no facts to prevent a full venting of his Bush Derangement!