Good Article on John Kerry and Vietnam Vets

[Dob Bole]

Kerriacs, eat your heart out:

http://thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040216&s=shapiro

[bigtree]

1. Good article

[mb7588a]

2. Yay Max Cleland. nt.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

3. Yup. Good article. Compelling dynamic of betrayal in Nam and Iraq.

I'm not committed to any dem candidate but I find the Kerry/Vietnam narrative compelling juxtaposed with the currently emerging public sense of betrayal regarding Iraq.

Imagine what's going to come out in interviews with those thousands of troops they're going to rotate home (or to Afghanistan?!) this Spring.

The public is showing more concerns about domestic issues in polls today but I predict that will change when the troops come back and more outrage spills out than can be covered up with parades and medals.

I predict the military grass roots support will swing hard to Kerry. They distrust politicians who haven't seen what they have.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

4. It's going to make for some powerful campaign ads in final days of the GE

Kerry's story just resonates on so many levels, Bush will lose the media war.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

5. Kick. Look at all today's deaths in Iraq. They're for Monday's news.

I'm convinced that the resistance in Iraq is playing the news cycle the same way the White House does.

Monday, bloody Monday.

[MAlibdem]

6. Kerriacs doesn't seem to quite have the ring as Deaniacs does it?