“Gut-check Time”

[las47032]

Something to think about before you go to the polls and vote. You might have forgotten some things about The Poodle.

Ever since John Kerry's presidential nomination was sealed with a scream (Howard Dean's), certain revelations about the Life of Kerry have set off buzzers within me that say there's no way this man will be president.

For example: There's no way this man who threw away his medals in protest -- but now says he didn't throw away his medals in protest -- will be president. There's no way this man who promoted a Viet Cong plan for U.S. surrender will be president. Those things.

I'm calling these Kerry Gut-checks, simple facts and personal traits undecideds should think about before they pull the lever.

1) Think about John Kerry's lucky hat. John Kerry keeps an old camouflage hat in his briefcase, The Washington Post reported last year. Kerry says this "good luck hat" was "given to me by a CIA guy as we went in for a special mission in Cambodia."

Forget about the "global test"; this tale one doesn't even pass the smell test. Kerry has repeatedly spoken of his 1968 Christmas in Cambodia ("seared, seared" in his memory, as he said in the Congressional Record), but not one crew member, not even the ones who support him for president, corroborate his story of venturing into Cambodia -- not at Christmas, not ever. Richard Nixon couldn't even have sent him there, as Kerry has claimed, because Richard Nixon wasn't yet in office. There's no evidence, official or even anecdotal, that John Kerry was ever in Cambodia. All of which makes that moldy old hat of his look pretty scary on a potential commander-in-chief.

2) Think of John Kerry's Vietnam re-enactments. When I learned that John Kerry, during his four months in Vietnam, would routinely return with his crew to scenes of skirmishes and re-enact them for a Super 8 camera (or, as his campaign prefers: "return to various locations to film one another"), I really thought the race was over. Sure, the films make ducky campaign footage -- although the part where the ex-naval officer is dressed like an infantryman is plain weird -- but such vain calculation is too hollow for presidential timber.

3) Think of John Kerry's annulment. A little-known fact of Kerry life is the senator's decision to seek an annulment from his first wife of 18 years, Julia Thorne (divorced 1988) in 1996, one year after his second marriage to Theresa Heinz. Julia Thorne, mother of Kerry's two daughters, learned of the annulment proceeding in a letter from a Catholic Church official, and told the Boston Globe in 1997 it was "disrespectful to me, it was aloof to any emotional issues, and devoid of any sense of the humanity of what this means to me and the children." On "Imus in the Morning," former altar boy Kerry joked about the proceeding, adding, "It doesn't affect the status of the child at all. It's just in the eyes of the church."

4) We've all tried to parse John Kerry's indecisive wordiness. But think about his dodgy silence. Bob Woodward has been trying since June to ask John Kerry how he would have fought the Iraq war differently. He even sent his questions to the candidate. "I interviewed President Bush and he answered hundreds of detailed questions," Woodward told Fox's Bill O'Reilly this week. But not Kerry.

5) Think about having a U.N.-poodle for president. There's one thing that justifies the loss of
American life, Kerry believes, and that's service to the United Nations, not the United States. "If you mean dying in the course of a United Nations effort, yes, it is worth that," Kerry said in 1994. "If you mean dying American troops unilaterally going in with some false presumption that we can effect the outcome, the answer is unequivocally no." Such non-American thinking puts the nation at risk in a post-9/11 world.

6) Think of John Kerry's supporters. From Kim Jong-Il to Yasser Arafat, from the Tehran Times to the Syria Times, John Kerry has already passed quite a global test.

Recently, Malaysia's former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad openly urged American
Muslims to vote for Kerry. Remember Mohamad? As prime minister, he offered to support the United States and Britain in an international coalition against "terrorism" after 9/11. But only, as he put it, "if they wanted to take action against Israel."

With friends like these, who needs ... a Kerry presidency?

Source
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/d...20041101.shtml

[BrianK]

All good points but what have we been hearing about how children are being taught? Not just recently but progressively over the last 25 years.

Is self sufficiency, personal pride, or any of the strong or desireable character traits that America was founded on still as strong ? Does "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" still ring out or is "I'm not going on that mission because I think it's to dangerous" replace the spirit of America?

Slowly the trend for Gov. to be all things to all people & moving away from independent thinking seems to be where we are headed. Only time will tell if this becomes a reality or at some point the tax load to pay for entitlements causes history to be repeated in the form of another Boston Tea Party.

[Joker]

Originally Posted by las47032

Something to think about before you go to the polls and vote. You might have forgotten some things about The Poodle

Question for you las... do you believe all these cut and pastes you post about Kerry and Bush, or do you feel that the end justifies the means, even if libel is one of those means. I recall being, quite unreasonably in my opinion, suspended by a rather ban-happy mod elsewhere, because I posted something about Bush's supposed previous recreational activities, based on something I read on a website. That was just the one post, though, and couched more in concerned tones than out of hostility. Not that I think you'd have a problem with being banned for the large volume of anti-Kerry propaganda you've recycled here, as long as it helped to ensure that Bush's re-election was in the can, but do you really think that any amount of deception is acceptable for a 'good cause'? Does it remain a good cause if it's based on lies?

[las47032]

Joker

WTF is your problem?!

After reading news articles, do you expect me to take the time out and post a brief summary of what I read?!

What's wrong in copying a news story then posting it to start a topic of discussion.

I've done that several times, and I don't see anybody pitching a b*tch? The person who replied before you didn't gripe about cut and paste.

Do you honestly think you can give an opinion about the news article that was posted, or is that too much of an effort?

O yeah, one more thing. Do you think I'm going to change my way of relaying information? Don't hold your breath.

[Joker]

Originally Posted by las47032

Joker

WTF is your problem?!

After reading news articles, do you expect me to take the time out and post a brief summary of what I read?!

No, but I expect that, given the fact that most of your posts don't get a single reply, you might want to consider not taking the time to post them in such profusion (thirteen on page 1 of Politics alone).

Originally Posted by las47032

What's wrong in copying a news story then posting it to start a topic of discussion.

Nothing, if you're prepared to take part in that discussion, or any discussion. For example, the Jim Rassman "Stolen Honor" thread is 31 posts long and, after starting it, you go on to post other threads, most of which, as I said, don't get responses, and never return to that thread. On this thread, I ask you a question, but by that time, presumably, your interest has moved on to the next c & p. It's hard not to see all this as spamming the board with Bus*ite propaganda. A liberal doing the same thing on Military.com would soon draw fire (you should post some of your stuff there, although you risk being glad-handed to death).

Originally Posted by las47032

I've done that several times, and I don't see anybody pitching a b*tch? The person who replied before you didn't gripe about cut and paste.

Throwing a dog? Ah, I see... I think Brian is addressing your post in isolation, whereas I am addressing the totality of your recent contributions, and wondering if you've given sufficient thought to balancing 'new' themes for discussion with actual participation in discussion?

Originally Posted by las47032

Do you honestly think you can give an opinion about the news article that was posted, or is that too much of an effort?

Tell you what, if you can honestly give your own opinion in the Rassman thread, I'll oblige you with an opinion of this thread. Of course, it's all a little too late for it to make a difference either way, not that it would have in any case, as few posters here seem to be in two minds about who they want to be the next president.

Originally Posted by las47032

O yeah, one more thing. Do you think I'm going to change my way of relaying information? Don't hold your breath.

I think it's a very safe bet that, with the voting over, you will be changing your posting style. You already have, by responding to me. You must be relishing the opportunity to finally put your feet up, and look back on a job well done. But you haven't answered my question. Do you really believe all the stuff you've posted?