The Real John Kerry, Redux

I apologize for the light posting yesterday, actually no posting. The wife and I decided to head down to San Diego and I am right now writing this from the Hotel Del Coronado. Couldn’t let this “apology” yesterday go by without putting my two cents in.

I gotta say, it felt like a real apology….an apology that was truly heartfelt in a belief that we are all just too dimwitted to understand what he really meant. We all know how deep he is right? A real thoughtful and intelligent man he is…..as Yoda would say.

This guy is a complete and utter jackass:

As a combat veteran, I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones: my poorly stated joke at a rally was not about, and never intended to refer to any troop.

Can you go one day, one freakin day, without mentioning that you served in combat? We all understand how painful it was when you received that splinter. We all understand how hard it was to leave your buddies behind after serving only four months……cough coward cough.

I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended.

Yeah, so sorry you ignorant dumbasses, that you couldn’t understand my deepness.

It is clear the Republican Party would rather talk about anything but their failed security policy. I don’t want my verbal slip to be a diversion from the real issues. I will continue to fight for a change of course to provide real security for our country, and a winning strategy for our troops.

It is clear John Kerry would rather talk about anything but his admission of how feels about our troops.

I just have to plug in a comment by Ace at Ace of Spades HQ referring to those who say “but it could have been a joke about Bush so everything is a-ok”:

Of course he made cracks about Bush. Every Democratic speech in America makes cracks about Bush.

This proves… what, exactly?

If a Democratic candidate said “The most pressing problem facing us today is wetbacks and their damnable cockfighting,” and then claimed, “Oh, I meant to say ‘the Bush Administration, not ‘wetbacks and their damnable cockfighting,” would their claim be buttressed by the fact that eariler in the speech they’d slammed Bush?

All of their speeches slam Bush. The fact that a speech slams Bush three, four, five, eight, ten times is hardly evidence of what was meant in any particular part of the speech.

Listen, Kerry’s real feelings about our Military have been well documented since the early 70’s. None of this surprises anyone. He accused his comrades of atrocities, claiming to have witnessed these same atrocities but later admitting he never actually SAW those things…just heard about them. Why would he immediately believe these hippies making those bogus claims? Because he feels deeply that the American fighting man is a evil ignorant robot.

Like he obviously felt about our troops a few years ago when he claimed that our troops were terrorizing Iraqi’s.

This is the John Kerry we have all grown to know and hate.

So when he made that comment recently EVERYONE knew what he meant.

Thomas Sowell spells it out plainly:

He said he would “apologize to no one” that if anyone would believe that “a veteran, someone like me,” would “somehow criticize more than 140,000 troops serving in Iraq” then “they’re crazy.”Maybe Senator Kerry has a bad memory — or maybe he is counting on the rest of us having a bad memory. He criticized more than 140,000 troops serving in Vietnam, making sweeping and unsubstantiated accusations against them of widespread atrocities back in the 1970s.

He criticized them at home and abroad, giving aid and comfort to our enemies in wartime. That is what first got the Swift Boat veterans after him, years before he ran for president in 2004.

Regardless of whether we believe Kerry’s account of his service in Vietnam or the very different accounts by many who served in the same unit with him there, military service does not confer lifetime immunity from criticism for what you do afterwards. Benedict Arnold was a military hero during the Revolutionary War. But General Arnold changed his mind on that war, just as Senator Kerry has changed his mind on the war in Iraq — and no one has claimed that Benedict Arnold’s earlier military service made him exempt from criticism.

How is this story played in the media? The front-page headline on the San Francisco Chronicle read: “Bush, GOP seize on Kerry’s Gibe to Turn Focus from War in Iraq.” The Chronicle has learned well the New York Times’s technique of imputing motives instead of reporting facts.

Has any Democrat ever been accused by the mainstream media of “seizing on” some statement by a Republican, much less have bad motives imputed?

This is not the first time the media have circled the wagons around Senator Kerry. Despite the fact that Kerry has shamelessly tried to exploit his military service in Vietnam decades later, Tim Russert is the only major media commentator who has ever asked him why he will not open his military records, as President Bush has done.

Kerry has said that he would, that he has, and yet to this day he has never signed the simple form that Bush signed to make the facts available to all.

But we should now all just say “hey, its allright, you were just misunderstood”…..come on. Your prior history gives us all a ton of evidence to suggest that no, you were not misunderstood.

You were clearly understood Mr. Kerry.

UPDATE 0900hrs PST

At least there are a few MSM outfits willing to do some digging on Kerry:

WASHINGTON (AP) – During a Vietnam-era run for Congress three decades ago, John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer Army because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable and be more prone to “the perpetuation of war crimes.”

Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran who turned against the war, made the observations in answers to a 1972 candidate questionnaire from a Massachusetts peace group.

[…]In 1972, as he ran for the House, he was less apologetic in his comments about the merits of a volunteer army. He declared in the questionnaire that he opposed the draft but considered a volunteer army “a greater anathema.”

“I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown,” Kerry wrote. “We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities present during Vietnam. I also fear having a professional army that views the perpetuation of war crimes as simply ‘doing its job.’

“Equally as important, a volunteer army with our present constitutional crisis takes accountability away from the president and put the people further from control over military activities,” he wrote.

So basically the only thing that would make him less fearful is no Army at all. I mean he fears a volunteer Army, he fears a professional Army, he probably fears the boy scouts also.

This is the face of our liberals. Want another example on how these people really feel? Take a look at their leader, Seymour Hersh, spouting his insanity:

“In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation,” he said. “It isn’t happening now, but I will tell you – there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.”

And the wacko’s eat this kind of stuff up because deep down they loath our soldiers. I mean no one who is intelligent would actually lay down their life for this country right? They have to be “an army of the poor and the black and the brown” as Kerry would say right?

UPDATE II 0915hrs PST

One MSM outfit does some homework while another one outift, the NYT’s, tries to pass off the “corrected” version of Kerry’s comments as if it was what he really said: (via Patterico’s Pontifications)

It also completely buries any description of the actual remarks themselves. It is the eighteenth paragraph (!) before Zernike even alludes to the actual content of the remarks. There is plenty of discussion about the fallout from the remarks — but what did Kerry say? It takes eighteen paragraphs to even get to the issue. Amazingly, Zernike quotes praise for Kerry from a small-time lefty blogger before she gets around to telling us what the hell Kerry had said that was so controversial.

But that’s not what makes this piece so outrageous either.

What makes this piece so outrageous is that it flat-out lies about what Kerry said.

That’s right. I’ll repeat it, because it’s so jaw-dropping: in the piece linked above, the New York Times tells a straight lie about the actual content of Kerry’s remarks.

Once Zernike finally gets around to discussing what Kerry actually said, she claims:

Mr. Kerry’s prepared remarks to California students on Monday called for him to say, “Do you know where you end up if you don’t study, if you aren’t smart, if you’re intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush.” In his delivery, he dropped the word “us.”

Really? He said “Just ask President Bush”?

Zernike is claiming that Kerry said:

Do you know where you end up if you don’t study, if you aren’t smart, if you’re intellectually lazy? You end up getting stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush.

Only that’s not even remotely what he said. If it were, then we wouldn’t be having this debate. The inclusion of “Just ask President Bush” — if Kerry had actually spoken that line — would have made it a no-brainer that Kerry meant this as an anti-Bush joke. An absolute no-brainer.

Of course no one should be surprised that our liberal MSM is covering for King Ding-Dong….

This is what they do.

UPDATE 0930hrs PST

QandO blog takes Seymour to task:

Soccer game. Firing indiscriminatly at anyone. Drag ’em out, stack ’em up and drop weapons all about (how does one know to carry enough AKs to accomodate murdering 30 Iraqis?). Dismounted in a kill zone, no ROE, no one in charge … just what we do, per Hersh.

Like I said, I have no idea if the video exists. It may. If so I’d like to see it, because Hersh’s description reminds me of something Jesse MacBeth or a certain Winter Soldier might describe, with all the tell tale signs its BS.

Indeed.

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