"The more I find out, the less I know."
|
Weather at the Frozen North
This is my personal blog. My professional blog is The Customer Service Survey I've written a book called Gourmet Customer Service. You can buy it on Amazon. (in)Frequently Asked Questions AIM Screen Name: DFNfrozenNorth
Categories
Statistics
Last Updated: Aug 07, 2008 03:30 PM
|
Tuesday - August 10, 2004 at 09:15 PM inJumping the shark on Swift BoatsLet me see if I have this straight. A
well-funded Republican-sympathizing group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
issues a book and 60-second TV commercial basically claiming that Kerry isn't
such a great war hero after all. The Kerry campaign counters with "are so!"
John McCain blows the whistle and calls for a penalty, calling it a dirty trick
and asking the Bush campaign to repudiate the
commercial.
With me so far? So how in the world did this morph into a huge
debate (mostly promoted, as far as I can tell, by the right wing) as to whether
Kerry was in Cambodia on Christmas Day in 1968?
To the point where Glenn Reynolds went to the law library on a
weekend to photograph the "incriminating" page in the Congressional
Record to post on Instapundit.
I mean, WTF? The whole Swift Boat argument (I hesitate to dignify it by calling it a "debate") is a sideshow at best. But this is a sideshow to a sideshow. At best. Oh, and here's a free clue to partisan Republicans: The longer you keep arguing about where Kerry was on Christmas Day 1968, the more likely someone is going to ask "Where was George W. on Christmas Day 1968?" And I can promise that the answer won't make for a flattering comparison. UPDATE: Kevin Drum has a more complete discussion of the question, but no less mystified. I still think the Democratic response to "Where was Kerry on Christmas 1968" should be "Where was Bush?" Posted at 09:15 PM | Permalink | | | |