Reply #68: I find it very amusing how so many people can't [View All]

see a significant difference between 4 months of combat experience nearly forty years ago and a 36 year long military career that includes being commander of forces in Europe, and successfully running and winning a war without any US casualties and by coordinating the militaries of 19 different countries.

Yes, the two things are exactly the same. Kerry had exactly the same type of military credentials that Clark had. Case closed.

It's also interesting that so many Democrats can't imagine that there might be special challenges to running against an incumbent Republican president during wartime, where genuine heavy duty national security credentials might actually be of utility.

Finally, what I find most interesting is the absolute fury with which so many Democrats greet the notion of a 4 Star General coming out and saying that the Republicans are wrong, the Democrats are right, and using his unique set of credentials to rip Republican foreign and military policy to shreds. How dare he!!!

Not only that, but he also committed the ghastly crime of actually holding Dear Leader accountable for the failure to prevent 9/11. He spoke out knowledgably and credibly about PNAC and what their agenda was. To add the worst insult to the worst injury, he defended the entire notion of dissent, and he defended Michael Moore's right to criticize Dear Leader. For this and other unspeakable crimes, such Republican lovers as Michael Moore and George McGovern gave him their endorsement.

With the way so much of our party loves to hate those who are on its side, sometimes I find myself feeling that we really deserved to lose this election, and that all of us Democrats probably deserve to live under four more years of Bush. When I read threads like this, I find myself not feeling quite so bad.