Get ready for another round of ridiculousness,.....
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/08/bush.national.ap/index.html
For the record, I think it's perfectly fair game to go over this with a fine tooth comb in the wake of the Swift Boast fracas over Kerry's record.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)
This is defense, not offense, and it's a pretty small part of the story. More on
this thread.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)
Oh whoops, sorry for double-threading.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)
John O'Neill, having gotten $7 million for his start-up,
isn't quitting now. But this wasn't part of his message:
Wade Sanders, a retired swift boat commander and former deputy assistant secretary of the Navy, said O'Neill was in cahoots with the president's political mastermind, Karl Rove, to smear Kerry, a charge the Bush campaign and the White House adamantly deny.
Sanders compared them to the Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. ``John O'Neill and Karl Rove studied at that man's knee,'' he said at the sidewalk news conference.
Judith Droz Keyes, a San Francisco lawyer whose husband commanded a swift boat with Kerry and died shortly afterward, said, ``I am sick, sick to the core of my being that I have to defend the honor of my husband, who gave his life against what have proven to be lies.''
Appearing on the verge of tears, Keyes, a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, described how her husband told her in 1969 how well Kerry had performed in combat.
``He did not lie to me,'' she said.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 11 September 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)