My Name's John Kerry

And I've never met a fight I didn't runaway from.

Consistency, that's what America needs. If Kerry had been elected, he would have figured out a way to re-start the Cold War, just so he could surrender to the Russians. Why not? He's already surrendered to most everyone else.

Dismissed!

Comments

[Bill Adkins]

"I've never met a fight I didn't runaway from" - same can be said for George W. Bush. What WAS it about 'bama that scared him so much he went AWOL? He's always let other people do his fighting and dying - started in 'nam, continues to today.

[Bill Adkins]

Here's another assessment of Bush's Blunder in Iraq by a veteran who went to Vietnam rather than run from 'nam and 'bama.

U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) minces no words today on Iraq:

"I don't think we've ever had a coherent strategy. In fact, I would even challenge the administration today to show us the plan that the president talked about the other night. There is no plan.... There is no strategy. This is a ping-pong game with American lives."

[scarshapedstar]

Hagel's a coward. Always has been. You won't see him writing any bold blog posts, that's for sure.

[Purple Avenger]

"Reporting to the ash heap of history"

[Stormy70]

There is the Discredited Chickenhawk slur again. Are you blogging from Afghanistan? No? Why not? Don't you believe in that war enough to fight it?
Your talking points are a little stale, Bill.

[Jon G]

Yeah, everyone that doesn't agree with you, even if they did actually go to war, is a coward. But Bush, who used his Dad's influence to avoid the war, is some sort of hero. And what of Cheney, the holder of 5 deferments. "I had other priorities" he said. But now says that people that want out of Iraq don't have the stomach for war.

While serving during the Vietnam War, Hagel received the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge.

[Bill Adkins]

And George W. Bush won the Happy Hour Margarita contest at the Alamo - whoaa, what a hero.

[Stormy70]

All this focus on Vietnam might get sticky when you nominate Hillary, the great peace protester, as the Democratic nominee. She will be qualified to burn bras and toke up for some free loving. Your tune will change then, it always does.

Hagel is a politician, not a saint. He is wrong and he deserves censure for it. His service is not relevant, considering he is sitting on the Hill and not a general on the ground in Iraq.

I know you will project your insecurities onto my reply, so I will wait with baited breath for you to tell me what I was saying. I have searched my post, but not seeing a reference to cowardice for those disagreeing with me. I must have blinked 50 times a minute and missed it. Pity.

[Jon G]

The Iraq war is the issue, and will be for the next election. Vietnam is relevant only as a reminder of lessons not learned. Iraq is, was, and will be a Republican war that the majority of the country has turned against.

As for Hagel, censure a politician who doesn't happen to agree with your point of view? That certainly seems a bit un-American to me. He certainly gets bonus points for having fought for his country, especially when so many of the architects of the now deeply unpopular war choose to avoid risk when their names were called.

"Do you favor or oppose President Bush's plan to send about 20,000 more U.S. troops to Iraq in an attempt to stabilize the situation there?" When asked 1/11/07, question began: "Regardless of how you feel about the war in general. . . ."

Favor Oppose Unsure
% % %
1/19-21/07 35 63 2

As for the title of this thread, Kerry went to Vietnam, risked his life and fought for his country. He deserves the respect of all Americans for his service.

[Stormy70]

He threw away any respect I might have had, when he fake tossed his medals over the fence and slandered the troops. Kerry sucked then, and he sucks now.
He owes me for having to deal with his popinjay ways.

[Stormy70]

Also, you can quote polls all you want, but polls are meaningless. Opinion is fickle and changes from one hour to the next. I never quote polls, because only an idiot would rely on capricious public opinion. Plus, the polls seemed to be oversampling Democrats, whose opinion is meaningless to me. Bush, too, apparently.

[Phoenix]

Kerry just ran away from this fight before he decided to join it. He knows he could never win it.

He might have taken a little hint, too, with the anonymous, daily notes slipped under his office door that said: "Run and die, sucker."

[Observer]

Kerry finally had a reality registration that the MSM is buying hook and sinker whatever the Hildabeast wants to portray as the current and past reality and is kissing Obama in places you shouldn't do in public and they would be hard pressed to add another butt to kiss.

Even cows can market only so many pies.

[Jon G]

You can argue that individual polls are meaningless, but poll trends - Bush going from 90+ approval to 30 and the dive in support for the Iraq War - certainly do reflect what the public thinks. And the public gets to vote against policies and politicians they don't like, as happened in the last election. Republicans know that if in two years Iraq isn't out of the headlines, a lot of them are going to be looking for new jobs.

Phoenix is correct - Kerry wasn't going to get the nomination anyway. He blew his chance last election.

Now Al Gore is another matter. If he decides to get in, he could very well get the nomination. And he can say, in the words of Frank Luntz, just imagine where we'd be today if I'd been President rather than George Bush.

[Stormy70]

We would be under attack with President Gore, and he would call for another summit on Global Warming. Good joke, though.

[Bill Adkins]

We're under attack with President Bush and he attacked to the rear. Typical of that chickenshit, though.