As would I, and I have. I take that as a measure of personal responsibility or accountability, of which conservatives like to claim primary ownership.
Also integrity, honesty and honor. These are very important to me as well.
Were I you, I wouldn’t hold my breath. This wasn’t an honorable mission to begin with. Footsoldiers for poop-slingers don’t appear to get twinges of conscience.
Yes, actually it was a typo for “clobbering”.
Yes, I can have it both ways.
No, you still don’t understand. You can’t have it both ways. Nobody else can have it both ways. Only me.
I believe this is what Al Franken calls “kidding on the square.” That’s when you say something like you’re kidding but actually mean it.
And, in New Iskander’s case it would explain a lot, wouldn’t it?
Oh, I dunno, be willing to entertain a Motion to Cut Some Slack. A willingness towards mocking one’s own opinion shows a mind opening, if not entirely open. A bit more outreach, perhaps, for one stumbling towards the light.
Not at all. As **Eddy ** already pointed out, the platform was popular with some and unpopular with others.
Sure. So? Is your position “Kerry has no character, therefore whatever he did was strictly for political advantage, which proves he has no character etc.” Or is it possible that he did and said what he did because it was right and necessary, as history has since proven?
While we’re talking about character, Hentor is dead right about those frequent posters here who lack the integrity to admit they were fooled into telling lies all along.
I’ve got a headache !
To the Mods
I think that I have used the signature in a couple of other places, but after reading your warning here, I will use it no more. (4:35 pm, CDST, Saturday, August 28, 2204)
Aha! All has been made clear and I have made a new friend out of it anyway. (You can relax, Shayna. All is well and you didn’t have to do a thing.)
It wasn’t his use of a split infinitive that would have had me blushing. (If Gene Rodenberry and Norman Mailer can do it, then certainly elucidator has more than earned the right to be whimsical with the language. You and I are in total agreement on that. And that particular rule is becoming more flexible anyway. What I said, if you will reread, is that I would blush if I had included that split infinitive. Elucidator can get away with it. English teachers are merciless with each other.
I don’t know why you would think that a retired English teacher wouldn’t need the “glowing good graces” of someone who is of a “youthful nature in his writing style.” I suspect that what you describe as “youthful” has little to do with age, but more to do with wit, insight and cleverness that appeals to all ages. The young have no monopoly on an appreciation of that gift.
It would be fascinating to know what characteristic I have that testicles would improve upon. I take it that this is not a Republican concept.
I doubt that Kerry was looking ahead 35 years and planning his run for the Presidency so far in advance. But if he was, that kind of strategic planning ability would certainly be a change for the better from what we have now!
Hm. You may have a point, I must confess. It is a self-deprecating, humorous remark. New Iskander should get points for that.
Oh, thanks. Now you’ve thrown me into confusion. Nice work elucidator. Epoxy on you.
I don’t suppose one necessarily has to grown one’s own. Witness Emma Goldman, Molly Ivins, Anne Richards, so on and so forth. And I suppose, one could simply employ a standard set of pruning shears, if one were to have an appropriate donor, willing or not. I could provide a list…
luci, have you been going through my bookshelves?
Could be worse; could be your drawers. 
**Well stated and I agree with everything you’ve said. I haven’t discounted any medals for being self generated (versus self inflicted). Grenades don’t come with a money back guarantee. Not a big fan of minor wounds (tiny splinter, stubbed toe etc…) but if it gets roaring infected then that adds to the wound. Just walking through a swamp in battle and getting a flesh eating bacteria out to count for a couple of medals by itself. I think you have to give some quarter to the notion that there are such things as minor scrapes and scratches. Somewhere between a paper cut and a missing finger lies a medal.
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Headline: More Believe Bush Behind Attack Ads
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040828/ap_on_el_pr/kerry_vietnam_opinion
Which is good since the polls that came out after the one I had the good taste to gloat about showed that the Shifties were hurting Kerry. I think I was premature but only premature. People don’t like being lied to and Bush was acting like, gee whiz, I’ve got nothing to do with it. Guess I’ll take the high ground and demand an end to all these groups including the ones who are defending Kerry by being significantly more accurate.
If there’s any justice, there should be a nicely gratifying boomerang effect.
There ain’t. It won’t. Nobody reads the retractons.
The Bushiviks won that round on points. They managed to damage Kerry some, and get out in time to clamber to the moral high ground, bat the big brown Bambi eyes and say “Who? Me?”.
Good news if they had been able to really make it stick, they would have totally clubbered Kerry, we would be arguing whether he should step aside and let Edwards have at it. But it was a steaming load, so they only got those people who don’t examine issues at all. (The same people, you say “Gore says he invented the internet, and Kerry’s a flip-flopper” thats its, you got 'em.)
Bush has been on a long slide down, with occasional uptics, and then resuming its glide path. There’s no reason to think that won’t continue.
**Finally, your excessive emotional diatribe does nothing to forward your point of view. Your post was filled with terms like, “grossly incompetent”, “frightening mentality”, ”Despicable Misleader”, and ”lying idiot”.
There are 2 candidates in this race. One of them denigrates his opponent with your style of language and the other doesn’t. How you treat your opponent is of mark of character. You may feel justified shoveling vindictive unabated but it adds nothing to the discussion. **
I remain optimistic. If people understand the Shifties were a put-up job then the charges should lose credibility.
In any case we’ll know in about seven to ten days.
The political platform Kerry joined after coming home from Viet Nam was obviously popular enough to promise election to Congress from Kerry district.
No. The only thing I was wondering whether Kerry stance in 1970 was really all that politically damaging, as some people here insisted.
But he didn’t get elected until much later, after the furor had died down.
Look, I don’t think Kerry was motivated by political expediency. I think he was genuinely anti-war at the time. Of course, I also think some of his tactics while advocating this platform were unnecessarily over the top.
He has to account for it, which is fair, since he believed it at the time.
I think Kerry lost in 1970. Not sure, I could look it up if I wasn’t so lazy and easily …look! Shiny!