John Kerry @ MindSay 
Now I know John Kerry is not in the Presidential hunt in 2008; however when I read an interview of a fellow captive with John McCain in North Vietnam’s torture prison camp known as Hanoi Hilton, I immediately thought of the difference of what a Dem thinks of decorated hero and what real Americans think decorated heroes are.
Supporters of Kerry’s war record are those that directly served on his boat and the reports given and written by Kerry himself in which top brass read then awarded citations of valor and medals. So there are documented facts yet different interpretations of those facts exist. There is a mystery of Kerry’s discharge from the Navy itself. The thing is serious some dispute of the validity of the documentation. So even after the long delay of Kerry allowing his war record to be released, doubters of Kerry’s war record have a good foundation to doubt. Besides a true American hero does not trash his fellow military comrades directly after leaving the Service if he indeed performed the acts the disputable documentation portrays.
It is no wonder that Kerry is part of the cut-n-run crowd which is actually a disappointing huge amount of people, not just Democratic Party politicians.
So I have taken one more shot at Senator Kerry for this reason. There is man running for President in 2008 who also is Vietnam Vet and there is little mystery of his heroism during the war or after. That candidate is Republican John McCain.
There are Leftists that are trying to debunk McCain’s war record attempting to do a Left Wing version of Swift Boating. However there is little mystery in facts and the conclusions that follow as with John Kerry. After the Vietnam War, McCain did NOT jump on the “I HATE AMERICA” Left Wing gravy train to infamy as Kerry did.
I found this website that is blatantly stinging toward John McCain record as a POW throwing doubt on the veracity of McCain’s medals. It reads like the words of vets in the John Kerry mold; i.e. veterans that hate their nation and their Service. Then the site links to another person who offers his negative opinion.
The site unwittingly mentions that Colonel George “Bud” Day nursed McCain back to health after being taken as a POW.
Oops! Bud Day does NOT corroborate the website’s disdain for McCain’s heroism. READ HERE. (McCain’s military records – HERE.)
As John Kerry proved in 2004 you can have all the A-list celebrities endorse you and it doesn't mean a a key to the White House. So I've done a little research (ok, so I just looked it up on Wikipedia) and I've found a few interesting celebs endorseing 2008 presedential conidates. Will this help you decide?
The Dems
For Barack Obama: Jesse Jackson, Ken Burns, Chris Rock, Will Smith, Usher, Oprah Winfrey, Kal Penn, Olivia Wilde, Brandon Routh, Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Halle Berry, Scarlett Johansson
For Hillary Clinton: Candice Bergen, Chevy Chase, Michael Douglas, Bob Vila, Barry Manilow, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Melissa Etheridge, Barbra Streisand, Martha Stewart, John Grisham, Rosie O’Donnell, Jerry Springer, Hugh Hefner, Berry Gordy, Magic Johnson, Maya Angelou, Jenna Jameson, 50 Cent, Steven Spielberg
For John Edwards (my personal endorsement): Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins, Madeleine Stowe, Harry Belafonte, Ralph Nader John Mellencamp
The GOP
For Rudy Giuliani: Adam Sandler, Kelsey Grammer, Kevin James, John Elway, Pat Robertson, Jeff Gordon, Donald Trump
For Mike Huckabee: Chuck Norris
For John Mccain: Kurt Schilling
For Ron Paul: Krist Novoselic, Joe Rogan, Howard Stern
>> am currently on my second tour in Iraq, a tour in
>> which I volunteered for. I speak Arabic and Spanish
>> and I plan to tackle Persian Farsi soon. I have a
>> Bachelors and an Associates Degree and between
>> deployments I am pursuing an M.B.A. In college I was a
>> member of several academic honor societies, including
>> the Golden Key Honor Society. I am not unique among
>> the enlisted troops. Many of my enlisted colleagues
>> include lawyers, teachers, mechanics, engineers,
>> musicians and artists just to name a few. You say that
>> your comments were directed towards the President and
>> not us. If we were stupid Senator Kerry, we might have
>> believed you.
>>
>> I am not a victim of President Bush. I proudly serve
>> him because he is my Commander and Chief. If it was
>> you who was President, I would serve you just as
>> faithfully. I serve America Senator Kerry, and I am
>> also providing a service to the good people of Iraq. I
>> have not terrorized them in the middle of the night,
>> raped them or murdered them as you have accused me of
>> before. I am doing my part to help them rebuild. My
>> role is a simple one, but important. You see Senator
>> Kerry, like it or not, we came here and removed a
>> tyrant (who terrorized Iraqis in the middle of the
>> night, and raped them and murdered them). And we have
>> a responsibility to see to it that another one doesn't
>> take his place. The people of Iraq are recovering from
>> an abusive relationship with a terrible government and
>> it's going to take some time to help them recover from
>> that. We can't treat this conflict like a microwave
>> dinner and throw a temper tantrum because we feel like
>> it's taking too long.
>>
>> Senator Kerry, you don't have to agree with this war.
>> You don't have to say nice things about those of us
>> who choose to make sacrifices for the rights of every
>> American rather than sit back and simply feel entitled
>> to it. But please Senator Kerry, if you're going to
>> call me a stupid murdering rapist, stick by what you
>> say. Don't tell me that I misunderstood or that you
>> would never insult a veteran because you're one too.
>> Having been there and done that does not give you a
>> free pass to insult me.
>>
>> My suggestion for you, Senator Kerry, is to remember
>> that your speeches are recorded, and broadcast to us
>> simpletons over here. You may want to write down what
>> you want to say before you say it, maybe have somebody
>> look at it before you say it and tell you what others
>> might hear. Remember that we can't read your mind, if
>> there are any misinterpretations in what you say, it's
>> because you didn't communicate clearly.
>>
>> Good luck to you Senator Kerry, if nothing else it's
>> always entertaining to watch you try and climb out of
>> the holes that you constantly dig for yourself.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Somebody who is watching his daughter grow up in
>> photographs so that you can have the right to say
>> whatever you want about him.
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I'm glad John Kerry didn't win the Presidential election in 2004.
This is what he said the other day at a campaign rally at Pasadena City College "You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and do your homework, and make an effort to be smart, uh, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.
What he meant to say was "If you don't, you get us stuck in Iraq" and hence the punch line was not supposed to be against the brave soldier on the front line in Baghdad, but President Bush. I guess on the campaign trail this passes the laugh test but it reeks of being a sore loser.
Even if he had said what he intended to say, it still isn't very funny.
It's patronizing.
This is funny.
John Kerry isn't some first or second term member in the House though, he's the Democratic Party's most recent nominee for President. More important than what he said, or attempted to say, is that he was attempting to use the military, and not the civilian brass in the Pentagon or Secretary Rumsfeld but the everyday Airmen, Soldier, Cadet and Marine as the subject of his joke. For a man whose claim to fame was that he 'served in Vietnam' I would think he would have a little more respect for his fellow comrades in uniform. For someone who wanted you and I to entrust him as Commander-In-Chief, and who still has ambitions to do so, I find his attempted statement even more condescending than his actual gaffe.
And his comment, laid bare for all to hear, is a quintessential example of what is wrong with the Democratic Party. It's become the party of John Kerry, no longer of John Kennedy. A generation ago, the soldiers and privates in our military were by a margin of 2:1 registered Democrats to Republicans. Today, they are more than 2:1 Republican. And not because they support long-standing GOP plans to eliminate the estate tax or reform this country's tort system. It is because Republicans, conservatives, have much less of a problem than do liberals, progressives and what other adjectives those on the political left and in the Democratic party want to call themselves, with the idea of America and being American. It's that simple.
It sounds corny but it's true.
It's the culture war stupid!
Culture wars are not about abortion and guns, gay rights and the environment. They are about the notion that this is a country worth living in and not being embarassed to say so, and therefore it is a country worth sticking up for and defending.
I'm not saying John Kerry is unpatriotic. Or that Democrats are unpatriotic. But it is fair to point out that it is those on the political left who have a much harder time embracing an American national identity and uniting in common cause with their fellow citizen. There are several reasons for this.
One, is that those left-of-center, like John Kerry, think that they are smarter than those right-of-center. That Harvard, or MIT are infinitely more interesting places than say, oh, Texas. That everything in between the Ivy League and Berkeley is flyover country.
Two, those left-of-center have no problem with identity, just an American one. It's why John Kerry and those like him love to count among their supporters any group of Americans that has a hyphenated identity that seperates itself from the rest of us.
Three, John Kerry and many of his followers are baby-boomers and of the Vietnam era, and forged their political identity not so much as being anti-war, but anti-military, skeptical of the use and projection of American power in the world, opposed to defending our national interest. It's why they are always looking for some conspiracy or cabal behind every foreign policy of our government. Usama bin Laden isn't evil, the Carlyle Group or PNAC is. Saddam Hussein isn't the real threat, Halliburton is. And on, and on.
This wasn't the case back in 1960 when John F. Kennedy was the Democratic Party's standard bearer. Just reread the words in his 1961 inaugural address.
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
If you didn't hear his Boston accent which gives his identity away, you'd swear it came out of the mouth of a Republican. And it would be followed by charges of imperialism, racism, colonialism and every other ism that you learn in sociology and ethnic studies classes in college.
From my favorite Constitutional law professor, and talk radio show host Hugh Hewitt; "Kerry reminded people that the war against the war has been underway since mid-2003, and that the Democrats have never taken the many opportunities to try and rally around the effort to reconstruct a free Iraq but at every turn have demanded an exit on some sort of rushed and arbitrary timetable. They disparaged the effort to push elections forward, then the effort to form a government, and now that government's effort to rule and unite. The enemy has been watching, and has calculated that they only way they can win is by waiting out America ---just as the North Vietnamese did."
Kerry has since issued an apology. Always a day late and a dollar short, he can't even be sincere in saying he's sorry. Like his Iraq votes, he was for what he said, before he was against it.
The troops aren't buying it though, and neither should you. Remember who understands that we are whether we like it or not a country at war. And that you don't fight wars unless you intend to win. John Kerry and too many Democrats don't want us to win. They don't want to win because they never supported getting in the fight in the first place. Not winning in Iraq validates their anti-war position all along. Democrats and John Kerry do not want bad things to happen to this country or our interests, or more directly to you and I one morning on our way to work or in an airplane up in the sky. But they have no plan or strategy to prevent such incidents from happening; be it a suicide bomber on a bus like in Israel or a spectacle of the 9/11 variety.
It's not their patriotism I question.
It's their judgment.
Any vote for any Democrat is a vote against victory and a vote for vulnerability. Vote for victory. Vote Republican.
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