One campaign in the presidential election has consistently questioned the military service of the opposing candidate. The attack dog on this issue, up until very recently, has been the Kerry camp. Throughout the spring, the Democrats harped on Bush's avoidance of fighting in Vietnam. It's a legitimate question. Now, Kerry's former comrades in arms are taking issue with the Democratic candidate's war record. The questions brought up by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (buy the book here), too, are legitimate.
We are picking the leader of the most powerful nation on the planet, after all. The public deserves to know if one candidate used connections to duck out of service, just as it has the right to know if the other exagerated his war record and invented stories of fighting in Cambodia.
In case anyone has forgotten, Michael Moore, Moveon.org, and even the Kerry campaign itself spent much of the spring and early summer attacking Bush's military service. The Kerry campaign even outlined more than a dozen "Key Unanswered Questions" about "Bush's Record in the National Guard."
Now that the tables have turned and increasing numbers of people are questioning Kerry's account of his time in Vietnam as well as his conduct after his return home, the Kerry campaign and his Fourth Estate camp followers are crying foul. Kerry decries the ad campaign against him as "fear and smear," and seeks to get television stations to block the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth advertisements.
Is it wrong to question a candidate's military record, or is it just wrong to question John Kerry's military record?
Senator Kerry is the living definition of a man who can dish it out but can not take it when it comes back his way.
I've watched this guy pretty much his whole career and due to the fact that he typically has nothing substantive to offer or say, his tact is the slander and criticize his opponent.
That's his modus operandi.
But, when his opponents fight back, he's shocked, SHOCKED that they could rail against him.
He is a spoiled, rich baby who should not be allowed to attempt on the job training for the most powerful position in the World.
