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Less Than Honorable

6.2.06 @ 12:01AM

A LITTLE LEVITY
Re: Reader Mail's Not in the Mood and Dennis Menaced:

With all due respect, the two "Letters" sections were the best things in Thursday's edition. It was good to see Diane weigh in, but I missed seeing Beverly or Elaine. Seriously, I find the "Letters" section a refreshing combination of passion for issues, and yet a sense of humor and shared appreciation for each other. Well, with the exception of the liberal troll's letters that you publish for reasons of contrast, I suppose. I guess that is why I read the "Letters" section first. That is also why I felt safe in offering a little light hearted banter to Diane on her "spot on" letter, being sure that she would recognize the friendly teasing for what it was.

Well, back to the daily grind.

GEORGE BUSH FOR PRESIDENT -- OF MEXICO!!!
-- Ken Shreve

EXERCISED IN FUTILITY
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell's Not Too Swift:

Jean-Francois Kerry is trying to torpedo the Swift Boat Veterans for one reason and one reason only: he has no prayer in 2008 unless he can get rid of them. Now why he thinks he may have a prayer in 2008 is the real question for the psychiatrist.
-- Andrew J. Macfadyen, M.D.
Omaha, Nebraska

Hateful Tyrrell: Only in America can two tours of duty, three purple hearts, two bronze stars and a Silver Star mean that you are soft and an appeaser. Only in America can a war veteran and POW be snidely put down as psychologically questionable. Only in America can two draft dodgers and conscientious objectors ascend to Commander-In-Chief. And only in America can a dementia-ridden voodoo economist be lauded as a great Commander-In-Chief. C'mon guys, play the ball, not the man. Results matter. Personality does not!
-- Nathan Maskiell
Melbourne, Australia

Spot on, Mr. Tyrrell. Indeed a psychiatrist would offer fascinating insights into the minds of Jean-Francois and his ilk. However, your premise does give short shrift to the hard core political junkies/ hacks that invariably flock to these people. I believe, as you know all to well, that D.C. is full of such sycophants. I submit that Kerry's remarkable hubris in his transformation from war "hero" to war protester and 30 years hence back to war "hero" was not so much the product of fleeting sanity, but rather the machinations and calculations that cynical, dishonest and amoral, take no prisoners, political staffers love to produce. Kerry and his acolytes, like many in Washington, subscribe to a version of the famous aphorism, to wit; "While you can't fool all of the people all of the time, you can fool some of the people ALL of the time." Given the election results of 2004 and the current political sophistry produced by the left, I believe I'm safe in resting my case on the legal concept, Res ipsa loquitur. (It speaks for itself.) Or, more along your premise, as Freud once said, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
-- A. DiPentima

I am still waiting for Kerry to release all his "war" records. After all he said he would, but that has been a couple of years and so far nothing. Don't anyone hold their breath, just seems if what he has said was true the records would have been released first thing. The only think Kerry is good at is marrying rich women.
-- Elaine Kyle
Cut & Shoot, Texas

One has only to read Evan Thomas's ELECTION 2004, an account of how he and the Newsweek staffers lap-dogged it around the country licking Kerry's boots, to confirm their suspicions that John Kerry has a serious psychosis.

I am not sure that Thomas meant to, but his "inside insights" into Kerry's foibles indicate an insecure, disturbed human being. From Kerry's tantrum over someone losing his hairbrush to giving unshirted hell to the guy who "caused" him to fall on a ski slope, to the final pathetic ending, where after a post-election interview at his Beacon Hill home in Boston, he followed the reporter down the street, holding a letter "that had just been left on his doorstep" -- purportedly written by a schoolgirl -- which read, in part, "John Kerry, you're the greatest!" This to buttress his claim that he was, indeed, liked. Following a reporter down the street with a missive such as that? What psychiatrist would not have a field day analyzing that pitiful gesture? Brings to mind Sally Field, accepting her Academy Award with "You like me, you really like me!"

And this was the man who was constantly asking, "What am I doing, even having to debate this guy?" Well, trying to get elected, John.

Regarding swift boats: I was told once that they are Boston Whalers. Is that true? If so, I was taught to pilot one (or at least keep it from running into a sandbar) in an afternoon. Of course, this was the gulf waters off Texas, not the swamps of Cambodia. But it was a kind of combat, as all on board (except me) were full of beer and rowdy fishing lies. I kept my wits about me and never thought I had ventured into the Caribbean. That was my sole experience, but it probably equals John Kerry's.
-- Diane Smith
South San Francisco, California

What is it with the Democratic Party? Why are so many of its leaders wacky?

As Emmett Tyrrell shows, John Kerry has so incorporated his delusions of grander into his thinking that the French-looking senator is actively trying to re-shape reality and rewrite history. And this obsession that Jean-Francois and his fellow Democrats have with the Swifties only makes me happier that I contributed to the Swift Boat Veterans during the campaign.

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