29 August 2004

Who says faking medals matters?

[source]

“In a sense, there’s nothing that says more about your career than when you fought, where you fought and how you fought.”

[…]

“If you wind up being less than what you’re pretending to be, there is a major confrontation with value and self-esteem and your sense of how others view you.”

[…]

“Is it wrong? Yes, it is very wrong. Sufficient to question his leadership position? The answer is yes…”

[…]

“When you are the chief of them all, it has to weigh even more heavily.”

John Kerry regarding claims that CNO Mike Boorda wore medals he didn’t earn.

Boorda ended up committing suicide. It turns out that the the accusations were false. It further turns out that Senator Kerry is falsely wearing the same decoration Boorda was properly wearing but accused of faking.

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Kerry Flipping Watch

[source, source, comment by pchuck]

John Kerry had just pumped up a huge crowd in downtown West Palm Beach, promising to make the state a battleground for his quest to oust President Bush, when a local television journalist posed the question that any candidate with Florida ambitions should expect:

What will you do about Cuba?

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”I’m pretty tough on Castro, because I think he’s running one of the last vestiges of a Stalinist secret police government in the world,” Kerry told WPLG-ABC 10 reporter Michael Putney in an interview to be aired at 11:30 this morning.

Then, reaching back eight years to one of the more significant efforts to toughen sanctions on the communist island, Kerry volunteered: “And I voted for the Helms-Burton legislation to be tough on companies that deal with him.”

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There is only one problem: Kerry voted against it.

Asked Friday to explain the discrepancy, Kerry aides said the senator cast one of the 22 nays that day in 1996 because he disagreed with some of the final technical aspects. But, said spokesman David Wade, Kerry supported the legislation in its purer form — and voted for it months earlier.

How much legislation did Senator Kerry for for before he voted against?

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