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6.9.05 @ 12:01AM

REPORTING FOR WHAT?
Re: The Prowler's Reporting for Duty:

The pathetic irony with the Kerry-Bush Yale academic experience is that while John Kerry was probably burning the midnight oil studying (or practicing his acceptance speech), W was probably down at Mory's hoisting a few beers and having some laughs. Gaudeamus Igitur!
-- Jack Hughes
Chicago, Illinois

John Kerry would be wise to release everything that's in his file now. If not, just wait until he and Hillary get into their "campaign" season. Remember that no one does "opposition" research like the Clintons. I feel certain that her minions already have lots to use against the Senator. One can just imagine how she'll be needling John about not releasing his file, and speculating about what might be hidden inside. We all know what a paragon of truth and virtue Hillary is, and she is not about to let a political opponent's weaknesses go unexposed. Actually I think it will be fun to watch Hillary slide the knife into John's back. Maybe he will be able to return the favor.
-- Mart Martin

It now appears that what the present junior Senator from the Bay State said upon presenting himself to the United States Navy was, in fact:

"My name is John Kerry, and I'm reporting for sushi."

Senator Kerry's spokesman expressed regret for the long-standing erratum, and emphasized that the young Kerry had not been properly informed of the actual culinary practices of the Navy. He denied the allegation, which surfaces from time to time, that the young Kerry's disappointment with the shipboard menu had anything to do with alleged war crimes.
-- Paul Kotik
Plantation, Florida

The Kerry staffer the Prowler quoted illuminates the rub we all have with John Kerry's ongoing cover-up and dim-witted foot-dragging about releasing the full contents of his service jacket: "The man lost. He's now had to admit that he was [crappier] student than Bush and yet you keep hounding the man. Nothing will ever satisfy you people."

"You people"? Where I come from, that is a pejorative, incendiary phrase.

Kerry had to admit he was a worse student than Bush? Notice the familiar construct: "He's had to admit…"

"The man lost . . . and you keep hounding him"? Senator-and-would-be-president gets caught in lies about the central theme of his candidacy -- his service in Vietnam -- but can't/won't support anything sufficiently, still plays games and because he lost, we should all just drop it?

John Kerry remains a man without conscience. He will never authorize release of his full military record. And until he dies, he wears a scarlet on his forehead he designed and then tattooed. That tattoo is a reminder of how he met with and then gave aid and comfort to our enemy -- as an officer of the United States Naval Reserve -- while our soldiers died and suffered wounds in Vietnam, and while John McCain and others suffered, even died, in the Hanoi Hilton.

Kerry detests and fears truth. It serves no serve political end for him. He thinks we the "you people" don't see that. But should he and his staff wander out amongst "you people," they will find how very much they are held in real contempt for just that.
-- C. Kenna Amos Jr.
Princeton, West Virginia

THE WISDOM OF CHILDREN
Re: George Neumayr's The Watergate Channel:

Mr. Neumayr stated:

"A student named YinYin Yu, 16, opined daringly that Felt's info was beside the point since all politicians behave badly at some point: 'They don't have ethics. They have politics.... No one acts ethically all the time, and in politics it's more effective to act unethically than ethically.'"

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