Oh freakin unbelievable. The asshats are releasing her personal info, phone numbers, home addresses, SSN #'s and ragging on her daughter. Can you smell the hypocrisy? can you smell the smug assholes just tossing away any shred of fairness or objectivity in the political arena?
The major News papers and George Soros are just breaking their own rules to smear a decent woman. Did anyone go after Chelsey Clinton? Is anyone out there harassing Obama's daughters?
Oh hey wait, Doesn't Obama's VP choice have a Lobbyist son who benefits directly from his fathers connections in Congress? Is anyone splashing that on the headlines?
I am so very sick of the main stream media and the democratic party and the looney liberal left.
Billionaire Liberal Democrats (yeah I know redundancy there) are funding massive programs to turn this country into a socialist slum to prevent anyone from profiting from hard work and dilligence...and yet all we hear about is those darn "Rich Republicans".
It seems like every where I turn I am being bombarded by hypocritical attack campaigns waged by front groups who are investing billions to basically tell us, that if we don't elect Obama we are racist. Hell I can't even complain because should I complain, I am labeled "A bitter white guy clinging to my guns and my religion". I wish I could use the language that Rachel Lukas does, but it isn't my style...still this crap just makes one want to scream. I am expecting the dems to release Palin's OB/GYN records next...along with accounts from her highschool sweety about what they did while parked in a secluded spot.
Oh lord help me survive the next 2+ months.
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Entertainment value.... just keep laughing as they keep stepping on their shriveled up wieners.
Nothing new, both parties do it. RNC trashing McCain when he ran against the worst president of my lifetime, the Swift Boating of Kerry, etc... etc... etc...
BOTH parties are a bunch of sleeze bags.
There's a big difference between Kerry and McCain, McCain is an actual hero, who really was wounded, whereas Kerry was more reminiscent of a Frank Burns style wound by a "Shell Fragment". (old MASH reference there)
DEFENDING AMERICA
BY DAVID H. HACKWORTH
ARE McCAIN'S HANDLERS PLAYING THE WRONG CARD?
John McCain is being hailed by the press as a "genuine war hero." But is he a war hero in the conventional sense like Audie Murphy and John Glenn?
Or is his "war hero" status the creation of a very slick publicity campaign that plays on flag, duty, honor and country?
For sure, McCain has the fruit-salad -- a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit for Valor, a Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Stars , two Commendation medals plus two Purple Hearts and a dozen service gongs.
On a purely medal count basis, he out-weighs Murphy and Glenn, who both for years repeatedly performed extraordinary deeds on the ground or in the air against an armed enemy.
McCain's valor awards are based on what happened in 1967, when during his 23d mission over Vietnam, he was shot down, seriously injured, captured and then spent 5 1/2 brutal years as a POW.
In an attempt to find out exactly what the man did to earn these many hero awards, I asked his Senate office three times to provide copies of the narratives for each medal. I'm still waiting.
I next went to the Pentagon. Within a week, I received a recap of his medals and many of the narratives that give the details of what he did.
None of the awards, less the DFC, were for heroism over the battlefield -- where he spent no more than 20 hours. Two Naval officers described the awards as "boilerplate" and "part of an SOP medal package given to repatriated (Vietnam-era) POWs."
McCain's Silver Star narrative for the period 27 October 1967 -- the day after he was shot down -- to 8 December 1968 reads: "His captors… subjected him to extreme mental and physical cruelties in an attempt to obtain military information and false confessions for propaganda purposes. Through his resistance to those brutalities, he contributed significantly towards the eventual abandonment…" of such harsh treatment by the North Vietnamese.
Yet in McCain's own words just four days after being captured, he admits he violated the U.S. Code of Conduct by telling his captors "O.K, I'll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital."
A Vietnam vet detractor says, "He received the nation's third highest award, the Silver Star, for treason. He provided aid and comfort to the enemy!"
The rest of his valor awards -- issued automatically every year while he was a POW -- read much like the Silver Star. More boilerplate often repeating the exact same words. An example: "By his heroic endeavors, exceptional skill, and devotion to duty, he reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Naval Service and the United States Armed Forces."
Yet McCain's conduct while a POW negates these glowing comments. The facts are that he signed a confession and declared himself a "black criminal who performed deeds of an air pirate." This statement and other interviews he gave to the Communist press were used as propaganda to fan the flames of the anti-war movement.
Accounts by McCain and other writers tell of the horror he endured: relentlessly beatings, torture, broken limbs. All inflicted during savage interrogations. Yet no other POW was a witness to these accounts.
A former POW says "No man witnessed another man during interrogations… We relied on each other to tell the truth when a man was returned to his cell."
The U.S. Navy says two eye-witnesses are required for any award of heroism. But for the valor awards McCain received, there are no eye-witnesses, less himself and his captors.
And they're not talking.
Our POWs in Vietnam were treated appallingly. The Viets would either break a POW or kill him. POWs provided info beyond name, rank and serial number or they didn't come back.
Based on these stalwart men's horrific experiences, the Code of Conduct has been changed. A POW says, "Now the training is to give them something… don't risk permanent damage to health, mind or body."
McCain refused an early release. An act of valor? Three former POWs told me he was ordered to turn it down by his U.S. POW commander and he "just followed orders."
McCain certainly doesn't appear to be a war hero by conventional standards, but rather a tough survivor whose handlers are overplaying the war hero card.
The above was from this man, a real hero if there ever was one!
Col. Hackworth’s battlefield exploits put him on the line of American military heroes squarely next to Sgt. Alvin York and Audie Murphy. The novelist Ward Just, who knew him for forty years, described him as “the genuine article, a soldier’s soldier, a connoisseur of combat.” At 14, as World War II was sputtering out, he lied about his age to join the Merchant Marine, and at 15 he enlisted in the U.S. Army. Over the next 26 years he spent fully seven in combat. He was put in for the Medal of Honor three times; the last application is currently under review at the Pentagon. He was twice awarded the Army’s second highest honor for valor, the Distinguished Service Cross, along with 10 Silver Stars and eight Bronze Stars. When asked about his many awards, he always said he was proudest of his eight Purple Hearts and his Combat Infantryman’s Badge.
I cannot claim to be qualified to dispute the words of People like
David Hackworth and Audey Murphey, it is they whom I look to as examples. However the Person who treated Mr. Kerry cast some doubt as to whether the sustained injuries were actually worthy of the award. I read his comments long ago and no longer have the references to pull up though.
Oh to clear up my MASH reference, Frank Burns put himself in for a purple heart when he was injured by shell fragments...egg shell fragments.
There are wounds, and then there are wounds. I served with men and women who were horribly maimed in the line of duty due to terrorist acts, and yet they were denied purple hearts because we were not at WAR with the combatants, while Kerry's injuries were barely worth a bandage let alone a Purple Heart. At least in my mind.
I think that ANYONE who puts their life on the line in combat is a hero, decorated or not. My father told me the worst time he had was taking a German town in a valley with 20mm flak guns firing at his unit from the hills on both sides. He said that men were killed all around him but that they still took the town. To me that took BALLS, no decorations, just guts.
I can agree with you on that point, but from what I have read Mr. Kerry didn't have such a harrowing tour of duty. He deserves respect for serving his country and going into harms way, but I think it belittles a man to make claims to gallantry not displayed. I would not spit on him as so many Vietnam Vets had done by ignorant civilians. As a fellow Veteran I would show him respect, however, I also knew and served with the "Frank Burns" types (Usually young JG's and Lieutenants) and so, I temper my enthusiasm in supporting their claims to glory. Of course the fact that I believe he completely disgraced the Uniform after the fact is something else and I do hold him accountable for those acts.
An example of my predicament. An extreme example. Lee Harvey Oswald Served his Country. How far should we go in celebrating his sacrifices to his country?
Simple, Oswald was never in combat, his service - like mine - was peace time.
Hmmm, I see, and so those people who fought and died serving their country in times other than during a "Declared War" just don't count?
You wouldn't be alone in that thought if you actually did think it (Im not saying that is what you believe or even what you meant) The Men and women I served with fought and died against Puerto Rican Terrorists, they died in strikes against Libya, they died in night clubs bombed by terrorists. I personally feel their sacrifices were just as meaningful and that my service was just as honorable as that of any one who served at any time. Just because there is no "Declared" hostility doesn't mean there are not men and women giving their lives for the country. Aircraft Carriers lose lives every tour out, even during peace time. Those who serve are no less worthy in my eyes. It is what they do while they serve and after not the specific timing that is important.
When one volunteers to serve one's country, he or she has no way of knowing what they will be called upon to do. Even in peace times there are those who have to sacrifice everything.
Sorry to get so long winded. I'm just trying to make a point that we should honor those who serve and yet, if those who serve dishonor themselves by claiming awards via political connections and by putting them self up for awards, or later disgrace the Uniform, they tarnish their own service and reputation and should have that low character brought to the fore when they seek political office.
Magik not what I meant. If you are in the military and someone is shooting at you that's combat. Declared war or not.
I knew it wasn't what you were getting at, just once I got revved up I remembered these people and it got me going. Didn't mean to go into a full on rant.
Anyway back to John Kerry, one has to remember that many of the core "Swift Boaters" were in fact people who served with him. When your team mates lay you out you can generally know that you did something wrong.
I've never since had the kind of bond with any group of people I had with those people I served with, even the people who I didn't get along with on a personal level in our team.
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