Quote:It's called being intellectually honest...something any former liberal turned conservative (guys like David Horowitz) can tell you DOESN'T EXIST in the liberal world.
Horowitz wouldn't recognize intellectual honesty if it ran him over with an 18-wheeler.
Quote:You continually spin the Moore movie as a great purveyor of truth, only slightly offset by a few "regrettable mistakes":
I think I've posted once about the movie since the week of its release.
I didn't say "great purveyor of truth" and I didn't say "regretable mistakes"
Quote:1. Moore's mistakes aren't "regrettable". They're "intentional".
Again, I didn't say "regretable."
I said "admittedly embarassing."
Quote:2. Any reasonable person with half a synapse firing in their skull has torn the Moore movie to shreds point by point. There isn't a shred of fact in the damned thing.
Have you seen the movie?
Quote:Finally, you say John Kerry SHOULD be judged for his conduct in Vietnam 30 years ago, while rejecting out of hand anyone who dispute the "war hero" persona.
I do reject it out of hand. Because the attack completely misses the forest for the trees.
These meatheads are nitpicking over whether Kerry was injured *enough* in service to his country and other such bullpucky.
None of it changes the fact that John Kerry *volunteered* to go to Vietnam and put his life on the line for his country.
It is, in other words, a terribly cheap shot.
It is difficult for me to comprehend the blind rage that would prompt these guys to launch such a cheap, meanspirited tawdry attack against a man who -- just like them -- put his life on the line for his country.
They obviously resent him for coming home and speaking out against the war.
I just don't understand it.
Read this, if you like. This is John Kerry testifying before the Senate:
<a href='http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/VVAW_Kerry_Senate.html' target='_blank'>http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/...rry_Senate.html</a>
You can nitpick a couple words.
But I don't understand the rage.
Terrible things happened over there. The war was a mistake.
I'd like to think most Americans recognize that now.
Quote:You then say John Kerry SHOULDN'T be judged for his conduct 3 years ago on 9/11, because he wasn't President and therefore not responsible or obligated to.
What should John Kerry have done?
Quote:Do you NOT see the contradiction here?
Quote:How sad. It might've been fun to talk about real issues. Unfortunately, the Moores and Soroses of the world have buryed this election under a steaming, stinking pile of lies.
What lies?
Quote:Trying to blame Republicans for it doesn't make it the truth, and THAT'S what people will remember as the election draws close.
Last poll I saw has Americans seeing both Kerry and Edwards as more optimistic than their counterparts in the White House.
That's not precisely on point, I admit.