Posted by
Keith Arnold on Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:56:32 PM
At a rally in Pasadena, California - which is to say, closer from where I'm sitting as I write this than he ever got to the Cambodian border while in the service - John Kerry continued his lifelong avocation of slandering and trash-talking the brave members of America's military.
Appearing at Pasadena City in a rally for gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides, Kerry said this: "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." For the full details, and tons of great documentation, visit Michelle Malkin's excellent roundup of the event.
The statement is a slap at the military, and a slap I heard repeatedly in my youth. I'm sure there are still people who believe, as one once so eloquently put it, that serving in the military is what you do when you're no good at anything else. But the truth is that our military is the best educated in the world, and has a higher percentage of high-school graduates than the country's general public - and a higher percentage of college diplomas as well.
For my money, I consider Kerry a career-level liar, and he made his career trashing the nation's military. Though he professed knowledge of numerous atrocities, the best documentation I've seen is that the only one he genuinely can support is the one he committed himself.
Outside of politics, the only thing he has done successfully in this life is marry into money. He's done it twice.
His comments on behalf of Angelides are an outrage. Mr Angelides, I call upon you to repudiate Kerry's comments and denounce them for what they are.
Mr. Villaraigosa, you were there on stage and in the pictures with him. I call upon you to do the honest thing and also repudiate Kerry and his comments.
I was born in Massachusetts. I call upon the good citizens of my birth state to explain why they send us people like John Kerry and Ted Kennedy. Surely somewhere within your borders there are two better men than a military-bashing, lying elitist wannabe jet-setter and a bloated, drunken public voluptuary. If nothing else, follow the lead of nearby New York, and recruit a carpetbagger who can at least put on an effective pretense of decency.
This event will be forever seared, seared into my memory as a defining watershed example of the character of these people.
- Keith