Why is Kerry ripped for his past, and Bush isn't?

Kerry served honorably on active duty in Vietnam, and is getting bent over by the media for his service. I can't believe how they are trying to denigrate his wounds, and his medals for valor. That absolutely infuriates me. Bush's service, while I won't call it dishonorable, is at the very least lacking when compared to Kerry. (This thread is not meant to be about Bush's NG service--I am just comparing the two records--and there really isn't a comparison, is there?)

Kerry has had enough honor, integrity, and fortitude to put his views on record and staunchly defend them for over 30 years. That speaks volumes in contrast to Bush, who had NO PUBLIC OPINIONS ON ANYTHING for that same amount of time. Oh, wait, he did. He wished he hadn't traded Sammy Sosa. He didn't go on record with jack dammit until he decided to run for the Texas governorship.

And yet, Kerry is on the defensive every day about shit that happened over 30 years ago, but no one bother to ask what the hell Bush was doing 30 years ago. And the fact that THAT isn't an issue baffles me, too.

Thoughts?

KERRY IS A WAR CRIMINAL! BUSH DID THE HEROIC THING BY GOING AWOL.

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Yeah it's bullshit because the media is so scared of being called liberal by being objective that they'll go after the stupid minor shit in Kerry's past while ignoring much worse stuff in Bush's.

I am glad some niticed the game.

an essay to be published titled "Gore's lies are less important than Bush's, but they annoy us more."

... why isn't he being ripped (harder) for his atrocities now?

... Department of State Police, excuse me, Homeland Security as another. Should I continue?

They are the ones who distort.

Can you imagine what watching CNN would be like if it was the other way around? If Bush was a war hero with medals and Kerry was a dodger who was busy snorting coke the whole time? Can you imagine?

The deck may be stacked against us, but that doesn't mean we won't win.

It's because they are THREATENED if they ask the wrong questions. Because they will lose access, then their jobs.

Because the free press is only moderately free. Because we have gestapo (hey Colin Powell you invented the words and you work with them, I guess that's a clue) office in the White House and we are screwed because courage is tough to come by.

It's not easy to lose your job and be slandered for standing up to those in power.

Did I mention we have a gestapo in the white house, hey ROVE this means YOU!

about himself or his policies, and aims to keep us from hearing anything good about Kerry and his policies — and they have the fine art of distraction well tuned. Then there's the media that buys into the insignificant bull and plays the sound bites over and over and over again.

I wish Kerry would do one 15 sec. spot explaining why the Bush team is going after the small stuff, in addition to lying about Kerry's votes and all of the other garbage they're spewing.
Kerry could end with a declaration denouncing the GOP and saying that he's going to stay focused on the issues that really matter to the American people. Whoa. He'll need at least a 30 second spot.

Amis seem to have been done struck F-U-C-K-I-N' STOOOOOPID!!!! :argh:

..to help *boosh* stay in power, because they know that President Kerry and the Dems in the House and Senate will restore the Fairness Doctrine and shred their ability to control and color the crap that fills American airwaves nowadays, passing as "news"...

The whole point of analyzing someones past is to make some prediction about how they would perform as President. In the case of Kerry, it is a valid exercise as he has not been President yet and details of his past that might give insight into how he would handle the responsibility of President is rightly being examined under very bright lights. In the case of Bush, he is President. There is ample evidence in the public record as to how he has performed in that role. There is no reason to waste time and energy examining surrogate data when you have the real thing.

Kerry's whole life will be examined for clues to how he might do.

Only the last four years of Bush's life need to be examined to see how he did do.

the Bushit corps of political hacks have been scraping the bottom of the dirty tricks barrel to cover the news coming out of Iraq...all they can come up with now, are Kerry's military records, three weeks running. How many times can the man show his records?

Have some fun, ask some questions...they say they only want we, the voters to have the unvarnished truth...ask them for the truth about Bush's records

http://www.swiftvets.com

their base. Think about it. The Republicans run on symbols. War heros who served have always been a powerful association that they cultivated back to VietNam. So they are attacking a true American War Hero now. At some point, the faithful are going to think about that and how it contradicts all of the programming that they've absorbed. I think if they overplay this, they are in danger of a serious blowback.