"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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Afterall, he thinks so much of his 20 years in Congress that he offered a
whole 73 words to it in his 10,000 word acceptance speach at the
convention.

He's not runing for Congress. He's running for POTUS. Unlike the
incumbent, he
doesn't have a (dismal) record of job performance as POTUS.

But he does as a Senator but does not want to bring his past 20 years up.
Strange.


In that case, it's all about character.

What a bunch of pure BS. You know better than that Chuck.

How will he do the job once elected?

If we take his past 20 years in the Senate as any indication then it is
obvious that he will push for higher taxes on all of us and more government
control of our lives.


Probably better, and certainly no worse than the current "character" in
the
office.


So character is important now but was not an issue when Clinton was in
office? Funny stuff Chuck.

The very fact that Bush winks and nods while his controllers and his
supporters
go on a rampage of character assassination in his behalf, (and ignores
calls
from rational Republicans like McCain to repudiate the activity), is
certainly
informative about Bush's character.

The character assassination is being done by a group of men independant of
the President and the President has distanced himself away from that group.


No, nor do I think others do. I do believe that at some point in time
they
served along side Kerry. Do you believe that is possible?

BTW. How many weeks did these 9 or 10 guys serve with Kerry on his boat?
5? And some 30 years ago at that. And they now believe they can offer an
opinion about the mans ability to serve as POTUS based on those 4 or 5
weeks
with him?

If you had stopped to consider the logic of that argument, you would not
have
offered it. It destroys itself on the runway before ever getting off the
ground.


You say that all 250 people who are damning and slamming Kerry are all
experts
on his character because they were in other boats, in the same approximate
vicinity for at least a few minutes and on perhaps only a single mission,
during Kerry's service in Viet Nam. (Odds are, they didn't even know or
care
what the name of the Lt. skippering the the other boat was).

Then you say, the people who served on the same boat with him for (in your
own
words) "4-5 weeks" are less qualified to judge his character than those
who
happened to be assigned to the same or nearby mission for perhaps less
than one
day.

Could I interest you in a spectacular deal on a bridge crossing the East
River?




I am trying to show that the opinions of these guys carry as much weight as
the 9 you have been discussing...zippo.

Understand Chuck? Not too difficult a concept.

Perhaps it is you who needs the bridge Chuck.

And how about we drop this Vietnam crap already and discuss what Kerry is
really about...high taxes and more government control.