Let us not forget his support for Daniel Ortega and the Sandanistas.

Thanks for posting this. I took the time to watch the whole video it was something. (BTW your link to the video is only for part one, didn't know if you were aware of this or not.)

Just one more reason why "the good senator from MA" isn't fit to empty the ash trays in the oval office, much less occupy it.

You are surprised that none of this turned up in the mainstream media? I am not in any way surprised. In fact I would have been shocked if it was shown on the mainstream media. Even if it was discussed the headline would be
"Conservative Veterans Group attacks Kerry's courageous service in Vietnam."

I commented a week or two ago that Kerry was a classic "one-cookie" kid. There was a famed experiment years ago where kids were given a cookie and told that they could eat the cookie now, but if they did that was it. If they waited for just five minutes before eating, they would get a second cookie. Then they studied the kids who took the cookie and ate it immediately, and they had all sorts of problems disproportionately like dropping out, getting (or getting someone else) pregnant, etc. Behaviors that appeared to be related to the same issue as eating the cookie; the unwillingness to put off current pleasure for greater longer term gain.

Kerry took a bite of the cookie when he came back from Vietnam, and it got him famous--on the Dick Cavett show and Meet the Press. But it didn't help him get what he wanted, which was a job in Congress. Later, he started his cookie business by stealing the plans from a franchisor; he literally ate the cookie that time. And all his ridiculous flip-flopping is classic one-cookie behavior. It solves the problem for now at the cost of the future.

Disclaimer: I was never in shooting combat. This notion is based on my observations of people who were, and the parallel observations of people who were in combat of one another.

John Kerry's case seems absolutely simple to me.

There is a particular class of attitudes that, in former times, were encouraged or even sought out by military services, including Americans, but which are nowadays strongly deprecated as "unprofessional." It is perhaps one of the few points of agreement between the military and the Left: Rambo is not useful as a soldier in today's American military.

In the cases I've observed, it works like this. Combat is scary. One's first experience of combat is hyper-scary, and one's response to that first experience is a very revealing look at one's underlying personality.

One of the possible responses is "attack back." Hearing the first zing becomes a license to go -- not berserk, precisely, although some do, but to respond with literally everything available, whether or not such response is appropriate in that particular situation. People who respond that way later, in my observations, fall into categories categorized by two extremes: the guy who loads himself down with everything he can get issued or scrounge, and responds to any least perception of attack with everything in his personal arsenal; and the guy who comes down off the adrenalin high and is deeply ashamed of his behavior, and very often never fires another effective shot, although he may continue to carry the weapon and even display competence with it when tested outside combat.

Neither of those types is useful to a modern professional military, who may have to consider that civilians, churches, valuable objects, etc. may be in the background when Rambo goes off, and who need every round available downrange when the shit hits the fan and can't depend on Mr. Sorry to contribute to that.

Kerry seems, from the description of his actions, like a type A, and the things I've seen from his former commanders confirm that in my mind. It's a bit ironic. The Left, whose favorite caricature of soldiers is the Rambo-type they disparage, has nominated Rambo for the highest office in the land, and the Right (whom the left assumes approve of Rambo) are the ones dissing him.

Look at the picture. Stripped to the waist, a bandolier of ammo over his shoulder, smiling with the rifle butt in his waist. Rambo. He's supposed to be commanding the boat, dammit, not blowing away VC -- that's what enlisted gunners are for. Kerry abandoned his command responsibilities to perform, badly, the duties of an E3 machine gunner. And the Democrats want him for President?

Ewwww.

Regards,
Ric

not bad