John Kerry’s Leftist roots go back many years. In 1962, Kerry (at 19 years old) was a volunteer for Edward Kennedy’s first Senatorial campaign. That summer, he dated Janet Jennings Auchincloss, Jacqueline Kennedy’s half-sister.
Kerry’s anti-military roots go back many years as well. As a matter of fact most Leftists are anti-military. On April 22, 1971, Kerry became the first Vietnam veteran to testify before Congress about the war. Kerry alleged that the military had “created a monster” in the form of violence-prone American soldiers, and recounted that soldiers had personally recollected stories of having “personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads,” of Vietnamese citizens and rampaging across Vietnam “[razing] villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan”
On NBC’s Meet The Press in 1971, Kerry was asked whether he had personally committed atrocities in Vietnam. He responded: “There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50 calibre machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages.
In 2004 Kerry received 59 million votes in his run for the Presidency. 59 million people in the US thought he was the best choice as our Commander In Chief. 48% of Registered Voters Voted for this guy. How will you vote next week?
On a 2005 edition of CBS’s “Face the Nation”, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass) said in an interview with Bob Schieffer that U.S. troops were terrorizing Iraqi women and children: “And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the–of–the historical customs, religious customs.”
On October 30, 2006, Sen. Kerry was a headline speaker at a campaign rally being held for Democratic California gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. Speaking to an audience composed mainly of college students, Kerry stated during a speech that, “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.”
Even RINO McCain couldn’t keep quiet over this: “The suggestion that only the least educated Americans would agree to serve in the military and fight in Iraq, is an insult to every soldier serving in combat, and should deeply offend any American with an ounce of appreciation for what they suffer and risk so that the rest of us can sleep more comfortably at night. Without them, we wouldn’t live in a country where people securely possess all their God-given rights, including the right to express insensitive, ill-considered, and uninformed remarks.”
Democratic Congressional candidate Bruce Braley has canceled a campaign event scheduled later this week with Kerry, saying that the senator’s recent comments about the Iraq war were inappropriate.
But let’s review a factoid once again: In 2004 Kerry received 59 million votes in his run for the Presidency. 59 million people in the US thought he was the best choice as our Commander In Chief. 48% of registered voters voted for this guy.
For the record, Kerry is dead wrong. Just four days ago The Heritage Foundation issued a report by Tim Kane entitled “Who Are the Recruits? The Demographic Characteristics of U.S. Military Enlistment, 2003-2005.” Read the report for yourself. If you do you will find that a higher percentage of military recruits have graduated from high school than the general population. In 2004 82.7% of recruits were high school graduates while another 7.03% had their GEDs. The national high school graduation rate that year was 79.8%. Even today, in 2006, the high school graduation rate for recruits is still higher than the high school graduation rate for the civilian population. Looks to me like the recruits are doing pretty well. You’ll also find that “the Department of Defense reported that the mean reading level of 2004 recruits is a full grade level higher than that of the comparable youth population.”
Says Malkin: “Never mind that for every two volunteer recruits coming from the poorest neighborhoods, there are three recruits coming from the richest neighborhoods, as The Heritage Foundation recently reported. Never mind that 99.9 percent of the enlisted force have at least a high school education. Never mind that 49.2 percent of officers have advanced or professional degrees; 39.4 percent have master’s degrees; 8.5 percent have professional degrees; and 1.3 percent have doctorate degrees.”
So either Kerry has no idea what he’s talking about, or he was intentionally lying. Either way Kerry once again shows everyone what an insipid, haughty, pretentious jerk he really is. But remember that in 2004 48% of registered voters voted for this guy.
Kerry insists he was making a joke about President Bush, not a joke about students who aren’t smart enough to do better than the military. While there’s virtually nothing in the text or video of his remarks to lend support for this, it’s possible that was his intent. After all, Kerry is an awful politician. One can’t rule out the possibility that he simply botched a joke.
If it was a joke, it was a pretty bad one, even for him. First, Bush got better grades than Kerry at Yale. More relevant, if launching the Iraq war is a sign of stupidity and a failure to do one’s homework, Kerry should avoid calling attention to the fact that he voted to approve it and defended that vote throughout his 2004 presidential campaign.
But whether or not it was a joke, it certainly sounded like Kerry was talking about the troops, because that’s the way Kerry talks about everything. All of his ideas were formed from his experience as an anti-Vietnam crusader. He may have run as a born-again war hero in 2004, but his political career was founded on his activism against a war he repeatedly labeled a crime.
Oh, but Kerry doesn’t speak for all Democrats, does he? Well … did you hear of one single Democrat … just one … anywhere … stepping forward to repudiate what Kerry said? Maybe some Democrat did, but I sure haven’t heard anything about it. Have you? Just wondering. Democrats who just love to tell us how much they truly do support our troops won’t even stand up to be heard when our Soldiers/Sailors/Airmen/Marines are slandered by this rich woman’s boy toy. Now what does THAT say about the Democratic Party, huh?
Here we are, on the even of the 2006 mid-term elections, in which the Democrats are poised to take over the House and maybe the Senate. Now here comes John Kerry, standard-bearer of his party in the last presidential election, to slander our troops by calling them ignorant. Geez, Kerry, even the most anti-war politician never blames the troops. But what do the Democrats care? In 2004 59 million people in the US thought he was the best choice as our Commander In Chief.
Many Democrats are now shaking their heads as everyone from President Bush to his old, loyal friend John McCain is demanding that Kerry apologize for allegedly insulting our troops in Iraq. Some Republicans see Kerry’s misstep as chance to refocus the election back where it should be — on the Left and their hatred of the military instead of on President Bush and Iraq. Senator Kerry refuses to apologize. Perhaps the most important lesson we learned about why Kerry was unfit to be President was his conduct after the incident. Not only did he refuse to apologize, he attacked and demonized those who were demanding that he say he was sorry. In the face of an onslaught of criticism he went nuclear, using angry bellicose language against his opponents that was more suitable to a playground bully, not someone who wants to be President.
How can one expect any understanding of duty, honor or country out of a person so soulless as to repeatedly switch sides on his comrades–out of a person who seeks to win an election while losing a war by falsely claiming our soldiers are academic failures robotically committing war crimes? To a self-consumed creature like John Kerry, who has providentially married two of the wealthiest women in the world, even love is too hard an emotion to understand–much less loyalty, honor, patriotism and the other virtues that cause brave souls to dare all and to risk all, including their lives, for their friends and their nation. This leopard never changes his spots - he’s still the elite-thinking, liberal, anti-war, anti-American, communist-loving, far left moonbat that he’s always been … the one that 59 million Americans tried to elect as their President.
John Kerry, Left, you get stuck in Iraq
