Moral cowardice
'If the Swiftboat Veterans Shilling For Karl Rove had any LESS credibility they'd make Jayson Blair look like Diogenes.'
Heh.
Virtually every Vietnam veteran who served aboard Kerry's vessel, and/or were cheek to jowl with him in combat, have supported his version of the events attesting to his bravery under fire - including William Rood, now a Chicago Tribune editor who, over the weekend, refuted the attacks on the candidate's war record.
How absurd has this gotten?
After Rood pretty much showed up the smear campaign against Kerry for the smarmy right-wing propaganda effort that it is, O'Neill fumbled and bumbled away with this quote to the Chicago Tribune: "We also stand by our judgment that while the action involved a degree of courage, it was not... worthy of a Silver Star."
"Degree of courage"? Since when did a political huckster like John O'Neill become the national arbiter of what constitutes courage under fire? What's next? Will O'Neill allege that if John McCain had been a better pilot he wouldn't have wound up living the life of Riley as a prisoner of war?
Here's the real act of cowardice: thugs created a blatant special interest group that exploits Vietnam veterans who served with distinction, and who may well have a fair beef with Kerry over his antiwar activities, simply to advance the political career of a candidate who used the war himself as little more than a glorified dental plan.
How absurd has this gotten?
After Rood pretty much showed up the smear campaign against Kerry for the smarmy right-wing propaganda effort that it is, O'Neill fumbled and bumbled away with this quote to the Chicago Tribune: "We also stand by our judgment that while the action involved a degree of courage, it was not... worthy of a Silver Star."
"Degree of courage"? Since when did a political huckster like John O'Neill become the national arbiter of what constitutes courage under fire? What's next? Will O'Neill allege that if John McCain had been a better pilot he wouldn't have wound up living the life of Riley as a prisoner of war?
Here's the real act of cowardice: thugs created a blatant special interest group that exploits Vietnam veterans who served with distinction, and who may well have a fair beef with Kerry over his antiwar activities, simply to advance the political career of a candidate who used the war himself as little more than a glorified dental plan.
- Daniel Ruth in the Tampa Trib.
Fun read: Bush's purple thumbs.
Headline of the day, from Fark: 'This week on When Triple Amputees Attack! : pResident Bush hides so the mail delivery guy won't see him.'
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