Kerry hit piece author/ was A WILLIAM REHNQUIST CLERK

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This is the "author" Drudge has chosen to highlight this evening as a man in the know about Kerry's service record.

What freaking joke!

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/kerry/articles/2004/05/05/former_sailor_is_drawn_into_battle/

"So it was that yesterday O'Neill stood beside Hoffmann and some of Kerry's other commanding officers, declaring, "We believe that based on our experience with him that he is totally unfit to be commander in chief."

It was O'Neill's second shot at his archrival. O'Neill made his points against Kerry in those 1971 debates, but he looked ill at ease in the most famous encounter, on "The Dick Cavett Show." Kerry, at 6 foot 4 inches tall, towered over O'Neill, who nonetheless taunted Kerry as "little man." Kerry had a thick file of documents, using his years of experience on the Yale debate team to say calmly in a Kennedyesque accent that he "personally didn't see atrocities" but that he took part in actions that he later learned were contrary to the Geneva Conventions.

Then O'Neill gradually faded into history, appearing at the Republican National Convention in 1972 on behalf of Nixon, clerking for Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist, and returning to Texas to become a lawyer, where one of his law partners was the late Harold Lezar, who in 1994 ran for lieutenant governor on a ticket with George W. Bush.

It took the prospect of John Kerry as president, he said, to get him back in the arena.

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1. He Ought to Be Grateful to JK for a Reason to Be n/t