John Kerry.

A deserter is not a veteran. He's a traitor.

 

I don't think Bush thought about the effect his AWOL would have on the country. He just wanted out of his commitment, so he just left, and then counted on Daddy's influence to avoid jail time.

Despicable, maybe. But not treason.

 

You are wrong, of course.

Treason is well defined in the Constitution and desertion is not part of that definition. It is possible for a deserter to be a traitor, but it has nothing to do with his status of "deserter".

A veteran does not lose his veteran status because of desertion.

 

Kerry's presidential hopes may not have ended, but any small chance he had of actually being elected is gone.

 

I'm still amazed at how we narrowly dodged the big bullet in 2004. We could have ended up with this clown.

I'm afraid we may get another in John McCain.

 

God was looking out for us. Has to be the only explanation. 2000 as well.

 

Bearing false witness again Gal? If there were enough evidence to support that nefarious claim, the Democrats would have hung GWB years ago. Literally if they could have.

 

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009197

The Patrician and the Grunts
What we can learn from John Kerry's latest flub.

BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

EXCERPT

On Wednesday evening, on Hugh Hewitt's high-octane radio show, I accepted his challenge and gave out my private email. I had said that my emails from soldiers in Iraq were generally relaxed about the Kerry flap: He wanted me to hear different.

I have since had the chance to read about 500 or 600 messages. Almost all of them politely phrased (I exempt one from "the Riordan family" who evidently have not forgiven the long history of British depredation in Ireland) and almost all of them appending the list of college degrees as well as of medals and citations held, these letters show a very deep and interesting rift in which Mr. Kerry plays only a secondary part. Many of my respondents agreed that his words may not have meant or intended quite what they first seemed to mean, but they also felt that the klutziness was Freudian, so to speak, in that the senator's patrician contempt for grunts and dogfaces was bound to come out sooner or later.