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John Kerry — perennial weathervane

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Every time I hear Massachusetts’ junior Senator speak, I breathe a sigh of relief that he was not elected president last fall. While doing some chores around the apartment this morning, I was watching FoxNews which was covering live his commentary on the president’s speech and heard this erstwhile Democratic presidential nominee claim that while he got home from serving in Vietnam in 1969, he didn’t start protesting the war until two years later — in 1971.

(QUICK ASIDE–Fox News covering Kerry remarks live?!?! Must not be the right-wing shills that the left claims it to be. Oh, wait a minute, it’s their clever Rovian strategy to present Democrats’ actual remarks and so reveal their absurdity.)

I wonder why it took Kerry two years to protest. I mean, in his testimony before the Senate, he claimed that the U.S. has committed war crimes in Vietnam. If he had witnessed such crimes, he owed it to the victims of these crimes — and to his nation — to speak out as soon as possible so our leaders could take action, punish those responsible and put and end to such atrocities. (As happened with Abu Ghraib, nearly four months before CBS broadcast the disgusting pictures and the crimes there became common knowledge.)

If this Democrat is ever to run for national office again, people need to ask about his delay in protesting the war. Perhaps, he (or others) already addressed it in last fall’s campaign. (If you have links to articles/commentary on this topic, please e-mail me or reference them in the comments below and I will update this post accordingly.)

Kerry’s comments today that it took him two years to protest the war merely show how even at the dawn of his political career, this man lacked a spine and put his finger to the wind before taking a political stand. In 1969, when he returned from Vietnam, he did not think opposing the war would serve his political interest. In 1971, he did.

UPDATE: I’m trying to find the text of Senator Kerry’s speech online and after checking his official Senate site (where he has not updated his linked speeches since July 21, 2003) and his pemanent campaign site, have yet to find the speech.

GP UPDATE: Let’s not forget how the Kerry weathervane twirled in circles over gay marriage during the 2004 campaign. One day he supported Massachusetts’ amendment, the next day he supported Missouri’s total ban… it all depended on where he was in this great country of ours and how the wind was blowing that day.

Comments

  3. Well, it’s been 34 years since Kerry defiled the US military (“in the manner of Genghis Kahn”) in his testimony to Senate. It’s been 34 years since he went to Paris to meet with the leadership of the enemy – and returned to advocate their position. It’s been 34 years since his position on the Viet Nam war resulted in the deaths of millions of South Viet Namese by their neighbors to the north, it’s been 20 years since he advocated a unilateral nuclear disarmament in the face of the Soviet threat, it’s been 1 year since he insulted Mary Cheney and used her as a campaign tool, and it’s been over six months since he promised (on Meet the Press, I believe) to release ALL his military records by singing the appropriate paperwork.

    To the best of my knowledge, Kerry has never apologized for any of his above actions and has never released his complete military file.

    Frankly, I don’t give a damn what he “thinks”.

  5. It would seem Kerry’s When-we-proposed-cutting-and-running- We-didn’t-really-mean-cutting-and-running-how-dare- Bush-attack-our-patriotism speech is getting much more media play than Lieberman’s Iraq-Is-Worth-Fighting for speech.

  7. #4 “Vera, does Auntie Mame agree with you? ”

    Of course she does! As does Agnes, Ito, and that sniveling little towhead, Patrick..

    We love military men but we hate liars (and detest the French).

    It’s not too nuanced, but it is patriotic.

  12. During the campaign, the liberal columnists said that Kerry only seemed to be contradicting himself because he was too sophisticated and intelligent for the average simple-minded American to understand. When nobody bought it, they claimed instead that Kerry’s critics were quoting his nuance out of context.

    I monitored the DU postings on election night and they included things like “John Kerry is too good for a country like America” and statements that began, “We, the intelligentsia…” and “We, the educated…”

    And you still can’t tell liberals that they’re America-hating elitists.

  15. Oh boy, now you guys have done it. You’ve probably ticked off JFKerry and his supporters –that means he’ll have to run again in 2008 just in spite. Thanks a lot, guys. Let’s just cool it on Kerry and he might get the message no one cares WTF he says.

    In the alternative, I say beat up on SlickWilly -that bozo is giving any critic lots of fodder for fuel; leave JFK alone. We don’t want him thinking he’s credible.