August 02, 2004
Convention Recap
I couldn't limit myself to just one quote from Dorian Davis' excellent piece about the Dem convention so I implore you to go read the whole thing. My favorite parts:
'Well, it was Boston, but for anybody who watched the Democratic Convention it was the Twilight Zone: People who have spent the past 4 years campaigning for abortion, nominated a man who is opposed to abortion. People who have spent the past 4 years campaigning for gay marriage, nominated a man who is opposed to gay marriage. People who spent the past 4 years berrating the Patriot Act, nominated a man who supported the Patriot Act. And people who spent the last year protesting the legality and the righteousness of the war in Iraq, nominated a man who voted for it.'
'The sex symbol of the party, John Edwards, was optimistic and sunny, and latched on to a very important idea in his speech with the refrain, "Help is on the way." It was a re-worked version of his "Two Americas" stump speech from the Democratic primary, and the audience loved it. He was attractive and vibrant. He spoke well. He made himself a contender for 2008, if Kerry doesn't win it this time. But the problem was, it was the same us-against-them class warfare Al Gore invoked in 2000, and lost with because, if there are "two Americas," most of the voting public is in the good one.'
'But here is the odd part, and it's very odd: For 11 months, John Kerry was in Vietnam. For 19 years, he was in the United States Senate. But in a speech that ran on for about 46 minutes, the time devoted to his life after Vietnam was about 26 seconds. Why? What happened during those 19 years that was simply not worth mentioning?'Posted by Karol at August 2, 2004 02:53 AM | TrackBack
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He was "in country" for 4 months. He was in uniform for 11. Most of that was serving as an administrative assistant to an admiral- stateside- meaning not in Vietnam. Perhaps some of it was in Europe.
Posted by: Oschisms at August 2, 2004 03:37 AMThe only thing that could make that poast better is if it was 27 seconds, instead of 26 seconds...
http://powerof27.blogspot.com/
John Edwards' refrain was "Hope is on the Way," if the writer of this claptrap couldn't hear clearly, the hundreds of bright signs with the words "Hope is On the way" flashing on the screen should've helped. As for the rest of this drivel, if John kerry is so anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, pro patriot act and pro iraq war, then republicans should be lined up at the polls to vote for him. So let's see you do it.
Posted by: Dawn Summers at August 2, 2004 10:12 AMWhat 11 months, it was 4, 4 lousy measely, months, 16 weeks. John McCain was there for how freaking long and he doesn't go on and on and on and on and on... oops sorry, I was like a Kerry speech there for a sec.
When I found out how long Kerry was there for {not very} in contrast to the big ado he makes about it... well, all I can say is:
Kerry; Repugnant, now more than ever.
Posted by: Ari at August 2, 2004 10:58 AMHmmm 4 lousy measly months, is that also about how long is missing from George W. Bush's national guard service record? Maybe he snuck off to Vietnam and just didn't tell anybody.
P.S. Jessica Lynch was in Iraq for less than two months. So doesn't the big ado the Bush administration made about her make them repugnant?
Posted by: Dawn Summers at August 2, 2004 11:15 AMUhm... I'd lovea little Jessica Lynch right now, it would help clense the palate. And Dawn, love, why not juxtapose it against McCain, the man is cancer ridden thanks to be buried in a box up to his head in the sun and he barely brings it up.
I'm just glad he never had an STD.
Posted by: Ari at August 2, 2004 11:18 AMKerry that is, I'm glad Kerry never had an STD.
Posted by: Ari at August 2, 2004 11:19 AMJessica Lynch came home after being captured by the enemy and having most of the bones in her body broken -- not just enough bumps and scratches to qualify for an early discharge.
And when she came home, she talked about how proud she was to be an American and how proud she was to serve our country. She didn't go around accusing her fellow soldiers of widespread and systematic abuse claims.
Posted by: Peter at August 2, 2004 11:33 AMMcCain brings it up plenty when he's running for something; Kerry doesn't talk about it much when he's not.
Are you accusing Kerry of using political tactics during a campaign? It's not like he "landed" a plane on an aircraft carrier or anything...
Posted by: ugarte at August 2, 2004 12:20 PMPeter, she did accuse the Bush administration of exploiting her.
Ugarte,
exactly.
I think Kerry ought to have enough to say without beating his dead vietnamese horse that's all. Someone who has outlined NOTHING should have quite a cache of discussable topics outside of an event that took place 40 years ago.
Posted by: Ari at August 2, 2004 12:35 PMNo, Kerry just "rode" a motorcycle onto Jay Leno's soundstage.
I haven't heard about Lynch accusing the Bush Admin of exploiting her, but it still doesn't compare to the wild accusations Kerry made against the same people he now refers to as his band of brothers.
Posted by: Peter at August 2, 2004 12:42 PMMy father spent 5 months in Vietnam and talks about it all the time. It was the defining experience of his life, just as the greatest generation had WW2 and another generation was "in their youths our hearts were touched by fire." (For those of you who came in late, that comes from Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on the Civil War generation that Col. Holmes knew well). I will not vote for Kerry. But I think I can appreciate why he reflects on his crowded hour in Vietnam, just as TR reflected all the time on his crowded three months in Cuba. I think all of us citizens who should be more loyal to a republic instead of a faction should do the same and give Kerry a pass here. There are things to attack Kerry on. His tenure in Vietnam being a defining moment in his life should not be one of them.
Posted by: Von Bek at August 2, 2004 12:53 PMhe was in vietnam for four months, he re-enacted battle scenes there so he could cast himself as the hero for his home movies, he decried his brothers as a pack of rape happy genocidal monsters, upon returning he joined the protestati which encouraged not only the deaths of more u.s. soldiers but also the slaughter of the south vietnamese, he tossed away his medals in defiance but later reassured us that it wasn't his medals but rather the medals of one of his brothers. kerry may have been brave and did his job with distinction, but he's a fraud. repeatedly evoking this disgraceful period in his life, a period that has absolutely nothing to do with the current war the u.s. is engaged in, shows how vacuous the democrats have become.
Posted by: scot at August 2, 2004 02:37 PMand his wife is a crazy bitch.
Posted by: scot at August 2, 2004 02:37 PMAww... his wife is like Courtney Love with a library card - that crazy bitch is beyond hilarious.
Posted by: Ari at August 2, 2004 03:04 PMFUCK YOU YOU IGNORANT FASCIST FUCKS! STOP SUCKING NIGGER DICK AND LEARN SOMETHING YOU KLAN FELCHING NAZI FUCKS!
FRANCE WILL PROSPER LONG AFTER JIHAD HAS VAPORIZED THE FASCIST US!
PS. STOP SUCKING NIGGER DICKS, IT WILL MAKE YOOU ONE OF THEM!
Posted by: Rex Handlebar at August 2, 2004 05:20 PMKLAN FELCHING NAZI FUCKS, wow.
Posted by: Stephen Silver at August 2, 2004 05:35 PMUhm... what is this; felching... I'm clearly not as smart as that fellow.
Posted by: Ari at August 3, 2004 11:47 AM
