Get a load of this genius, John Lovejoy, who writes for the Chicago Maroon. Memo to the Young Republicans at the University of Chicago: Put down the crack pipe.
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A look at Seator Kerry’s (sic) bleak recordSo far most of the analysis of the presidential race has focused on the record of President George W. Bush, but what of this other fellow, John Kerry? Even if one is inclined to dislike our President, one must measure him against the alternatives. Looking at Kerry as a person reveals him to be an almost laughably shallow man whose single-minded ambition for high political office has overridden every other consideration in his life.
Consider his very name. His grandfather changed it from Kuhn to Kerry after emigrating from Austria. Senator Kerry allowed the voters of Massachusetts to believe he was Irish, because of the name, for over two decades. This is a small but important indicator of his willingness to reshape his personal beliefs and characteristics, sometimes at breakneck speed, to improve his electoral chances.
Next, look at the women he has married: two fabulously wealthy heiresses who ensured he would never have to earn a living. Granted, many men hope to marry money, but with Kerry the reason went beyond mere personal comfort. The idea that he would ever have to draw earnings from a company that made a profit seems to have horrified Kerry. Why, that would imply he was no better than men like President Bush and Vice President Cheney, who worked for corporations engaged in the dirty, immoral business of making money. To a Democrat, that means they are ineluctably bound up with the selfish “interests” of those corporations, in perpetuity. Unwilling to risk even the whiff of such charges, Kerry simply avoided private industry altogether, even though that twice constrained his preferred choice of spouse.
Kerry holds up his service in the Vietnam War as a reason to vote for him. Fighting for his country was a noble thing to do, no question. However, what he did afterwards was not. After returning from the war Kerry fell in with a lot of anti-war, communist-affiliated fringe groups. These groups fabricated atrocities allegedly committed by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam. Gunther Lewy and other researchers have since debunked these stories, but Kerry has repeated them in speeches and before Congress, even though he probably knew from his own experience that they were lies. That did not matter to him, because the anti-war side was the place to be for an aspiring Democrat, and extreme charges were the ticket to media coverage for the young Kerry.
More, if you need more laughs:
http://maroon.uchicago.edu/viewpoints/articles/2004/04/16/a_look_at_seator_ker.phpWorthy of a nomination? Should I bother to respond? Any DUer worth her/his salt could tear this poorly-written heap of lies into shreds....
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