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The idea that a President, who dodged his
military obligation by hiding out in Alabama nightclubs drinking and
doing drugs, would have the audacity to challenge the military career of
his opponent, shows just how deranged the incumbent President has
become. He is a danger to himself and others, and most of those
others are We The People. The
so-called front group “Swift Boat Veterans for the Reelection of the
Texas National Guard Slacker” have mounted an ad campaign to impugn
the integrity of the one man running for President who actually knows
first-hand what war is like. Okay,
so John Kerry didn’t get blown apart like Max Cleland or Bob Kerrey,
and he didn’t have to sit in the Hanoi Hilton for years like John
McCain, but he actually went. George
“AWOL” Bush isn’t even fit to hold these guys’ coats, yet he has
his stooges from the Texas Republican Mafia running TV ads, calling talk
shows, doing cable TV talk shows and hawking a book claiming Senator
Kerry is unfit for command. Bush
or his evil Svengali Big Dick Cheney know they can’t make these
accusations themselves, since they have absolutely no credibility, so
they have rounded up a group of fat-cats to do their dirty work for
them. The connections of
these rich Republicans to the Bush family dynasty go back to even before
Poppy’s run for the White House in 1988.
The
New York Times
has reported: “Records show that the (Swift Boat) group received the
bulk of its initial financing from two men with ties to the president
and his family - one a longtime political associate of (political
advisor) Karl Rove's, the other a trustee of the foundation for Mr.
Bush's father's presidential library. A Texas publicist who once helped
prepare Mr. Bush's father for his debate when he was running for vice
president provided them with strategic advice. And the group's
television commercial was produced by the same team that made the
devastating ad mocking Michael S. Dukakis in an oversized tank helmet
when he and Mr. Bush's father faced off in the 1988 presidential
election. The strategy the
veterans devised would ultimately paint John Kerry the war hero as John
Kerry the "baby killer" and the fabricator of the events that
resulted in his war medals. But on close examination, the accounts of
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth' prove to be riddled with inconsistencies.
In many cases, material offered as proof by these veterans is undercut
by official Navy records and the men's own statements.” The
Times and The Washington Post have each documented the words and actions of
the men presently accusing Kerry, and have found that in years past they
supported Senator Kerry whole-heartedly, both in praise for his war
efforts and in personal appearances in support of his campaigns for the
U S Senate in Massachusetts. Some
of these words of praise come from past elections and some come from as
little as a few months to a year ago.
And yet now they seem to have changed their minds.
Are their words taken out of context?
Do they really believe what they now say, or is the financial fix
in? Why
would anybody believe these phonies?
Are the people in the two or three swing states where these ads
are running really that naïve? And
what lunacy drives G W Bush and his advisors to think that this is not
going to come back to bite them big-time?
It’s like the death wish of a serial killer leaving clues
hoping to be caught. Kerry
went. Bush didn’t.
Does Bush really want to have that discussion?
And why are we talking about THAT war anyway?
Is it because if we talk about the present one Bush REALLY loses? These
guys from Texas, the not-too-swift Navy guys, are really not so upset at
what Kerry did or did not do during the war.
What they are truly upset about is that Kerry gained the
spotlight as one of the leading spokesmen for Vietnam Veterans Against
the War. This is what
really has them riled, and Karl Rove’s cronies have tapped into that
nerve and bankrolled this whole operation trying to discredit Kerry and
derail his campaign. It won’t work. The
American people are not that stupid, are they?
GAWD, I hope not. New
England politicians are much more mannerly and polite than their
down-and-dirty cowboy counterparts from the Lone Star State.
Senator Kerry will have to get down in the mud and get his
fingernails dirty if he wants to take these sleaze-balls on on their own
terms. It’s like the
eloquence of Daniel Webster or the polite panache of Calvin Coolidge
against the vulgarity of Lyndon Johnson or the mean-spiritedness of Phil
Gramm. The
President, who wanted at one time to be known as “the Peace
President”, has involved us all against our will in what may become
one of the great debacles of all ages, making such events as the Bay of
Pigs seem like a Sunday picnic. The
Bushes are like WASP Corleones, attempting to settle old scores with
expatriate Saudis, malcontent Iraqis, Iranians and Afghans, and anyone
else with whom they disagree. Hey-
-nothing personal- -It’s only business.
That’s why John Kerry must be contained at any cost- -even if
it takes bald-faced lying to keep him from saving our country from
certain disaster. And
speaking of bald-faced lying, who better than Dick Cheney to fit THAT
bill? That’s why it takes tapping into old wounds to manipulate a
bunch of sore losers into making unsubstantiated accusations that may
hurt Senator Kerry. It’s
as if Eddie Haskell is President. “Yes,
Mrs Cleaver, those pearls
make you look lovely this morning.
Do you always serve breakfast with a pearl necklace on?
And how is Theodore today? Has
he made up his detention since skipping school? Oh, I guess I wasn’t supposed to tell you that.
He really is a swell boy. My
friend Clarence “Lumpy” Rove
and I will be happy to escort him to the library to help him with his
homework.” The
Bush campaign theme song will soon be Great
Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts as we head to New York and
the Convention Beyond Mention. Meanwhile,
these Navy vets, who don’t seem to realize they are being used as
pawns, can mount the podium with Dubya, and help him explain his DWIs,
and just maybe we’ll get to hear from his old coke dealer.
Not
too swift. |
