COLLABORATORS ARE SELDOM POPULAR:

Kerry's wartime record influences Vietnamese voters (Michael Kan, September 23, 2004, The Michigan Daily)

A whopping 71 percent of the Vietnamese-American community plans to vote for President Bush in the upcoming election, according to a recent national poll by the multi-ethnic news agency New California Media.

Dan Tran, a member of Vietnamese Americans Against John Kerry, isn’t surprised. Instead he anticipates an even higher percentage, predicting Vietnamese will virtually vote unanimously for Bush.

“I think 90 percent of the Vietnamese in America will vote against Kerry,” he said.

Amid an already heated election littered with issues surrounding Iraq and the economy, in the eyes of some Vietnamese the sole factor determining their vote has been their resentment of presidential candidate John Kerry’s record with their homeland.

For anti-communist Vietnamese who fled the country, Kerry’s anti-Vietnam war stance and policies on current relations with Vietnam have only evoked anger.

And twenty years from now 70% of Iraqi, Iranian, fill-in-the-blank Americans will be voting against whichever Democratic nominee opposed liberating the Middle East.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 23, 2004 10:26 AM