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Malbis Tiger
(209.247.222.39) on 8/20/2004 - 8:38 a.m. says: ( 13 views
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"The point is being missed here. "
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I am not saying that my following reasononing makes Kerry a bad candidate - his politics do that for me - but what is it about service under fire that makes an individual a better (or worse) candidate for POTUS? I don't feel like simply Clinton's or W's lack of active duty made them a lesser candidate than Kerry or G Bush Sr. I think that it is an honorable thing to have served and it certainly is to be recognized, but there a whole boatload of people that I know and have known that served under much more dangerous conditions and have proven themselves extremely brave that would make horrible Presidents.
What we need to be talking about is the political beliefs of the two candidates. I think that the Republicans are getting sucked into a trap here, a trap that very likely the Democratic political machine set deliberately. Not only are they not talking about what counts - Kerry's political record - they are allowing themselves to be made to look petty criticizing the service record of a military veteran, albeit a service record that may have been tweaked over the years, still legitimate service to his country. They did the same thing in 1992 when they let themselves get all hung up on whether Clinton inhaled or not.
And if the Republicans don't watch it, they're going to trap themselves into at least 4 years of Kerry. And when Kerry takes that oath of office, it ain't gonna mean #badword# what he did or did not do in Vietnam.
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