re: #354 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and don’t even even get me going on how they dismissed the service record of guys who could have pulled strings but didn’t like Gore and Kerry.

John Kerry was a different case: I am still - and will always be - convinced that the Swift Boat bullshit pulled on Kerry in the 2004 campaign was (what I hope was) the last gasp of the Vietnam War (pro/anti) as a political issue in this country. I still believe that it was Kerry’s outspoken anti-war stance and leadership in the “anti-war veterans’” movement - old history as it was by that point - that provided the spark for the smear campaign* : a belated chance to re-fight the war (and punch some hippies) - contrasted with the sneering triumphalism over Iraq which the Dubya Administration loved to push.

* which they might have mounted anyway, Kerry’s anti-war activism just made it sweeter for the smear merchants, IMO