I ahd to read this three times:
John Kerry didn’t want to get on his own campaign bus. It was just after Labor Day 2003, and the day before, Kerry had formally launched his candidacy with a forgettable speech, delivered while standing in front of an aircraft carrier in Charleston, S.C. Now, as he was preparing to leave a rally in Manchester, N.H., Kerry strongly objected to the slogan plastered on the side of the bus: COURAGE EQUALS KERRY. He was traveling with his Vietnam buddies, and combat veterans didn’t like advertising themselves that way, he protested. Real warriors
ape
“courage equals kerry” is just a rubbish slogan. i mean.. it sounds like an action man doll; or one of those daft cigarette ads from the ’50s.
Dave Schuler
My goodness, Kerry certainly wasn’t reluctant to bring up his military service prior to 2003. It’s all over the Congressional Record for goodness sake.
Can’t we go back to the who-what-where-when style of journalistic writing so we can kiss the bogus narrative style that’s popular now goodbye and the J-school grads will stop making stuff up?
Ron
Dave
But then how will ignorant, racist, fascist, homophobic, redneck morons from the Heartland know how to vote?
What I’m wondering now is: why should the Repubs reach out? I don’t think we’re the ones with the atrocious behavior problems. If anyone sees a narrative style MSM article about that, let me know, I need some guidance.
jason
i don’t believe a world of that. “i’ll get on the staff bus”? what a bunch of garbage.
Dodd
Perhaps his hairdresser was on the staff bus…?
ToddZilla
“What I’m wondering now is: why should the Repubs reach out?”
Hell, *someone* has to console their bitter, pouty, petulant crybabies that make up such a large part of the Democrat party these days.
Thomas J. Jackson
Yeah Kerry equals courage. It takes guts to knowingly be on the wrong side of history for over 35 years. If he had courage he’d be able to civilize his wife.
Republicanas Maximus
Are boys in Fallouja are examples of courage, not this 60 year old windsurfing man child who hastened his early exit from the military by claiming purple hearts for scratches, some of which may have been self-inflicted. Kerry’s combat record is the kind of record we’d expect from a blue blood political hack from San Francisco. The son of a bitch should pack up his pink pollo shirts and move to San Francisco where he can find more of his “kind.”