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Originally posted by RougeUnderoos+Aug 23 2004, 04:03 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (RougeUnderoos @ Aug 23 2004, 04:03 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-CaptainCrunch@Aug 22 2004, 08:00 PM
Your right, but if you intend to use it as part of your campaign you need to expect to see it looked at and attacked.
So yes your right it dosen't matter if you received them from paper cuts or a game of basketball that goes wrong, but if your using it in a credibility bank in a major political campaign then the other side has the right to try and turn it around and use it against you.
Thems politics
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I suppose the other side has a right but sheesh, Bush is so clearly outdone on this one that it all seems sort of unbelievable to me. Fight another battle ferchrissakes because this one is lost.
This tactic would not fly in the CalgaryPuck OT board so I don't see how it can work in the real world. If I, a spoiled, heavy-drinking coke-snorting slackass, called you (Captain Crunch) out and said "your military service is a bunch of crap" I'd be shouted down, and rightly so. It wouldn't even cross my mind to do such a thing because I don't/wouldn't have a leg to stand on. But here we are, listening to a spoiled, heavy-drinking, coke-snorting slackass say "yeah, he was in Viet Nam, but what did he really do, how purple are those hearts, maybe that Green Beret would have been okay anyway"? It's disgusting. Well, maybe George himself isn't saying it, but his attack dogs and Secretary of Guttersniping Karl Rove are behind it all, there is no doubt about that. [/b][/quote]
I'm not saying I disagree with that, however if I was running for Prime Minister and I said that I was involved in Desert Storm as a fighter Pilot and bombed a Iraqi armoured column, and used that to gain some kind of collateral over my opponent, I'd damn sure better make sure that I was a fighter pilot and not a infrantry man tasked with cleaning toilets.
If Kerry's story is accurate then it serves to make his opponents look desparate if they attack it. However if it is inaccurate or exagerated then it stands to reason that his opponents have every right to jump all over it and question it. There seems to be some discrepancies that need to be sorted out on the whole thing as its seems to me that there are supporters and non supporters for his story that were involved in his time in Vietnam.
Personally I would hate to be a U.S. voter right at the moment, neither candidate is what I would call desirable, or seems to be capable of leading the last remaining Superpower.