September 22, 2004
REWRITING HISTORY TO COVER YOUR TRACKS:
Kerry still sacrificing the freedom of the South Vietnamese (Edward Morrissey, 9/22/04, Jewish World Review)
John Kerry has taken to pleading for a return to debate on current issues and more relevant qualifications for the presidency in a bid to bury the debate on his Viet Nam record, which at one time was all Kerry would discuss on the stump. Speaking in New York last month, Kerry told a crowd that all the Bush campaign had was fear, while he wanted to talk about how he could outperform Bush in areas such as foreign policy.So let's talk foreign policy, as practiced right here at home, by Senator Kerry.
I had the pleasure of speaking with Bradley Clanton of the law firm Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, in Jackson, MS and Washington, DC. Brad represents several Vietnamese-Americans who came to the US as refugees of the Communists in their native land. Some of his clients have names that students of the era would recognize, such as Bui Diem, former ambassador to the US from the Saigon government. This group of Vietnamese refugees filed a lawsuit against the University of Massachusetts (Boston) and the William Joiner Center, one of its research centers, due to irregularities in its awarding of fellowships for researching the Vietnamese Diaspora.
What's important about the story that follows, and about his entire foreign policy history, is the Senator's desire to do to Iraq what he did to South Vietnam. Posted by Orrin Judd at September 22, 2004 9:08 AM
Again, sen. Kerry lives in a strange yet very personal kind of time warp. His second guessing and post game quaterbacking is absurd on its face. He agrees with everything that works while critical of anything that has not gone perfectly well. One would think that, from his point of view, his grandstanding circa 1971-2 is something better off forgotten.
Posted by: Tom C, Stamford,Ct. at September 22, 2004 9:30 AMTom: And what evidence has he offered, or could he offer, for the proposition that he would execute the same policies more competently? The closest he comes is to claim that he would more eagerly kowtow to Chirac. That's true, of course, but are Americans going to be convinced that (a) it would work and (b) even it did work, it would be worth it?
Posted by: David Cohen at September 22, 2004 9:54 AMDavid-
The current Kerry is the same guy as the 1971 Kerry. Whatever he believes will stir the politcal pot and raise the emotions of the mob, no matter how absurd or logically flawed, he will use. He is the definition of a demagogue. His betrayal of his comrades and the South Viet Namese
for personal politcal advantage puts him in a category all his own.