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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
To the unwitting reader who doesn't follow the details of national stories (e.g., the 50%+ who thought that Saddam Hussein built Osama bin Laden from clay), the story came across as an authoritative contradiction of the Swiftees. But that was just the tone, not necessarily the substance within the article.
What is clear from the article is that Kerry fragged himself in the ass and then was wounded (again) slightly later because he bumped his arm around the time of an explosion which presumably was caused by enemy munitions (of course, its hard to guarantee as this part of the story is told immediately after the part where its made clear that Kerry wasn't too careful with his own). Believe me, I'm doing my best not to put quotes around the term "wounded" there, but I think think the description of hte incident is enough. Than again, in my old stressful life, I used to tell my coworkers that every day was a potential sick day, because there is probably something or other that ain't perfect on any given day. Similarly, I'm wounding my fingers typing this message into the keyboard. 3 Purple Hearts and out, right?
What I really, really, really liked in the article though, was that Kerry's "diaries" were written circa 1971. That's a cute trick. For. Describing. 1969.
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Whoa. Pass the bong, dude. Don't know where *that* came from, but it sure wasn't the article I posted.
To be fair, I'm sure that when you glue individual pages of
Unfit to Command to your bedroom walls, the different stories tend to blur together.
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In stark contrast, Kerry is an insecure and sanctimonious little prick. So he see's the attack, and rather than letting out a belly laugh, he gets a serious look on his face and actually tries to debate half of the flippin Vietnam era navy. The smart thing to do would have been to make a few jokes about it, and never address it with a serious comment.
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Kerry looks plainly pissed. And whiny. And shrill. And pathetic. There is no way he comes out of a battle with hundreds of his contemporary veterans looking good. The only real choice here was not to directly engage. All in all, this has been a disaster for Kerry.
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That's close, but the remaining GOP talking points require you to say that he sounds "unhinged" and "possibly unfit to govern." This was the language that they tagged Gore with during the 2000 election, and ultimately it worked pretty well.
I don't really know the best way for Kerry to deal with the issue. He's determined not to sit there and take it like Dukakis, thank God. The trick is to be effective in repudiating it without looking whiny or getting sunk by it anyway (for the latter, see McCain in 2000).
This FEC thing plus the comments by Edwards over the weekend seem risky, but who knows? It does seem like KE'04 has decided that they can't live with this state of affairs through November, and current moves seem geared to place the spotlight unflinchingly on GWB so that people will see how he reacts.
