Kerry is not the one "running on what he did 30 years ago".

[Goldom]

Remember when all the Freeper-kin of the world blamed Clinton for taking up all his time with the scandal? Remember how.. um.. it's not his fault that that is all the media would talk about?

Same thing.

[UdoKier]

1. But Kerry's only dancing around the scandal while bragging about Vietnam.

He needs to tear the Swifties a new one, attack the charges head on, then give the war stories a rest. A lot of his supporters are tiring of it too.

And Clinton wasn't trying to run for office on the basis of his marital fidelity.

[2Design]

2. Kerry is running on his willingness to be of service to our country

that service started with Vietnam, then the war protests, then the senate and now he is reporting for duty again as the president.....

it is the big picture of character.

The vietnam thing being brought up is a good thing, because we again have a useless war based on ambitions of the people in power for all the wrong reasons...and we need lots of war protesters.....Kerry showed us how to do that.

the nation as a whole has not healed from vietnam or accepted that torture and abuse happened then and was the higher ups fault then as it is now....until that "wound" is healed this is not over...

the swift boat vets are angry because they committed atrocities and can't live with themselves - Kerry represents the part of them they hate - the part that can not say it was wrong -

they are very sick people who are hurting - getting ALL of this mess out in the public will finally allow this nation to heal.....

We again have monsters, the same monsters in power and on the side lines wanting to do the same damage and atrocities.....they must be stopped and if the only way that can happen is by pointing them out in a war 30 years ago and finally accepting it was wrong - then we can move on to IRAQ and know and accept it also was wrong.

[politicat]

3. we won't heal until we have a generation who knows nothing but peace.

My generation, the children of the Vietnam era vets, grew up with an elephant in the living room every time we had some incident that involved military deployments. There's a ghost that haunted our childhoods, especially those who had fathers or uncles who were vets.

Unlike the children of WWII vets in England who had time to reflect on what the war did to their fathers (that's what they were doing in the 70's) we Vietnam children had to deal with Panama, Grenada, Libya, and finally Iraq I; we had no time for reflection.

Nor do we have the time now, to deal with the collective wars.

We don't build memorials, we construct charnel houses of memories.

Pcat