Over in freeperland, it will not compute that the fascists in Hoover's FBI thought Kerry was a moderate. It will not compute that Kerry has always been much closer to the mainstream than Bush or they could ever hope to be. And the llllliberal media will continue mischaracterizing Kerry as a "liberal," hoping to scare "mainstreamers" away from him.
http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/05/06/file_pegs_kerry_moderate/print.html- - - - - - - - - - - -
By Calvin Woodward
May 6, 2004 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- -- The FBI, closely tracking the anti-war movement in the 1970s, concluded John Kerry was a glib, moderate figure in a Vietnam veterans group that took a radical turn around the time he left it, documents show.
The FBI file on Vietnam Veterans Against the War says the organization swung toward "militant and revolutionary-type activities" but accuses Kerry, now the Democratic presidential candidate, of little more than charisma.
The bureau's more than four-year investigation of the organization -- everything from its plots to pot luck suppers -- is detailed in more than 9,000 pages released Wednesday under a Freedom of Information Act request from The Associated Press.
An FBI summary of the anti-war protests Kerry helped organize in April 1971 says the decorated war hero "overshadowed" many of the organization's other leaders and was "a more popular and eloquent figure" than the rest....
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