Kerry wants to debate Bush about Vietnam? WTF? This election is not about Vietnam. Let me make this very clear, just in case a few lefties still don't understand the difference:
One has the feeling that the driving force behind this ploy is the old media and a coterie of leftie ideologues who still carry a deep hatred of the establishment of that time, they are not done with Vietnam. However, I do believe most Americans are.
Kerry's handlers and strategizers don't remember that most Americans of Kerry's generation were not protesters or flower children. The majority of Americans then, as now, were middle-class folk, not political activists. If they did not serve, they went on about their lives, getting degrees, finding jobs, getting married, buying homes, raising kids. The protests in the streets and the rice paddies were a flickering TV image accompanying dinner, not their reality. Their safety and that of their family was not threatend by a misguided war half a world away.
We want to know what Kerry will do about the war on terror NOW. How he will handle pursuing Al-Qaeda, deal with rogue regimes and the prolifteration of WMD. Our lives may depend upon it.
This is not the 60's. Get. Over. It.
Posted by feste at February 22, 2004 12:07 PM | TrackBack