Wednesday, August 25, 2004
I offer myself a hearty
Congratulations
(blogspot is messing up Html in titles. grrr)
The first and last semi-intelligible thing I had to say about the Swiftboat veterans new book, before my illness went full tilt boogie, was in Allah's comments on the fifth of August, when other folks were blogging about "skepticism" and how or ought maybe to back away or WAS backing away from the Swifties.
I watched the blog-world clouds roll by after that, watching as greater minds than my own began to notice that Kerry was caught dead to rights on this point; observing the Kerry camp stunned by a sudden boat rock, getting dumped like so many chocolate-chip cookie-eating Rassmans into the water. How they flailed! Their normally protective spin gear was pulling them down into the muddy deep.
Then I started to worry. The context surrounding his Cambodian misrepresentation tended to show him unfit to lead, after all, he was showing off, and deflecting criticism from himself, on a matter of US military defense policy with a self-aggrandizing *LIE* about his military service on the floor of the Senate.
But the swiftboat story had devolved into minute and murky discussion of every OTHER details; not that they were irrelevant or unimportant, but this obscured what was plain and simple.
My point... Kerry used lies about his military service to justify his military policy.
If that doesn't mark one as unfit to lead the Nation in a time of war, nothing does.
To be fair, I had already decided I was disgusted with Kerry, before the exposure of the Cambodia lies made it, in my opinion, inarguable that one SHOULD be disgusted with Kerry.
I wrote this during the convention, addressing Dean Esmay's "pledge" request:
I knew the Swiftboat guys were coming, but I remembered how they had been first dispatched away with by the media when their petition was published in newpapers ads.
I suppose I expected their book would be a sort of broad opinion piece, with personal and or emotional observations of kerry's bad character or resentments over his anti-war views. I did not expect a careful and calm expose of thirty odd years of cynical self-aggrandizing, fakery, puffery, and policy affecting lies....and the first online chapter laid it out for all to see.
(blogspot is messing up Html in titles. grrr)
The first and last semi-intelligible thing I had to say about the Swiftboat veterans new book, before my illness went full tilt boogie, was in Allah's comments on the fifth of August, when other folks were blogging about "skepticism" and how or ought maybe to back away or WAS backing away from the Swifties.
Kerry either did say (falsely)he was in Cambodia fighting Nixon's secret war, or he didn't.
Either he did or didn't change his story years down the road.
Both are documented. He did and he did.
That's enough for me, he's a fucking liar about his military service and unfit to be president.
The purple heart/hut burning/goat killing/8mm reenactments/bronze star/torture caused by his false testimony allegations hardly even matter to me now.
Christmas in Cambodia is enough, all by itself.
And that's a done deal.
Posted by SarahW at August 5, 2004 05:32 PM (Spelling and redundant phraseology corrected)
I watched the blog-world clouds roll by after that, watching as greater minds than my own began to notice that Kerry was caught dead to rights on this point; observing the Kerry camp stunned by a sudden boat rock, getting dumped like so many chocolate-chip cookie-eating Rassmans into the water. How they flailed! Their normally protective spin gear was pulling them down into the muddy deep.
Then I started to worry. The context surrounding his Cambodian misrepresentation tended to show him unfit to lead, after all, he was showing off, and deflecting criticism from himself, on a matter of US military defense policy with a self-aggrandizing *LIE* about his military service on the floor of the Senate.
But the swiftboat story had devolved into minute and murky discussion of every OTHER details; not that they were irrelevant or unimportant, but this obscured what was plain and simple.
My point... Kerry used lies about his military service to justify his military policy.
If that doesn't mark one as unfit to lead the Nation in a time of war, nothing does.
To be fair, I had already decided I was disgusted with Kerry, before the exposure of the Cambodia lies made it, in my opinion, inarguable that one SHOULD be disgusted with Kerry.
I wrote this during the convention, addressing Dean Esmay's "pledge" request:
If Kerry were ACTUALLY the Kerry he pretended to be in the not-too-distant past, I should not have lost much sleep over his election. (Though such feeling would be moot, as he would not have been nominated, nor have any chance in hell of winning, if he had not been willing to backstab the Nation for victory.) Similarly, I would not have cried myself to sleep the night of Joe Liebermans election.
Quite frankly I think John Kerry is unfit to lead. He's a liar, a poser, an opportunist lacking in nearly every moral and intellectual quality I value. . . .
Contemplating the election of such a man is painful to me, I want him exposed and defeated...prior to office.
I knew the Swiftboat guys were coming, but I remembered how they had been first dispatched away with by the media when their petition was published in newpapers ads.
I suppose I expected their book would be a sort of broad opinion piece, with personal and or emotional observations of kerry's bad character or resentments over his anti-war views. I did not expect a careful and calm expose of thirty odd years of cynical self-aggrandizing, fakery, puffery, and policy affecting lies....and the first online chapter laid it out for all to see.
