skippy the bush kangaroo: john kerry: "close that barn door!" <br>horses' telegram: "love the beach wish you were here"

Sunday, May 28, 2006

john kerry: "close that barn door!"
horses' telegram: "love the beach wish you were here"

john kerry, apparently waking up from a two-year coma, has called the swift-boat veterans liars and wants to set the record straight, now that it doesn't matter to anyone except him.

the nytimes reports:

mr. kerry, accused even by democrats of failing to respond to the charges during the campaign, is now fighting back hard.

"they lied and lied and lied about everything," mr. kerry says in an interview in his senate office. "how many lies do you get to tell before someone calls you a liar? how many times can you be exposed in america today?"

his supporters are compiling a dossier that they say will expose every one of the swift boat group's charges as a lie and put to rest any question about mr. kerry's valor in combat. while it would be easy to see this as part of mr. kerry's exploration of another presidential run, his friends say the swift boat charges struck at an experience so central to his identity that he would want to correct the record even if he were retiring from public life.

which he might as well do, considering he's two years too late for any of this to matter. the times itself points out later in the piece:

mr. kerry has signed forms authorizing the navy to release his record — something he resisted during the campaign — and hired a researcher to comb the naval archives in washington for records that could pinpoint his whereabouts during dates of the incidents in dispute. another former crew member has spent days at a time interviewing veterans to reconstruct every incident in question.

[ed. note: emphasis, and snarky rolling of the eyes, ours.]

forgive our collective sigh of "so what?", but it seems to us that if he had put half of this effort into this very project back when it was actually happening during his campaign, we might have been blogging about president kerry right now. not because the actual truth would have changed anyone's minds, so much, but the sight of a decisive, courageous man ready to take on the lying press would have swayed several hundreds of thousands of voters to his camp (and all we needed in ohio were a few hundred).

in related news, kerry demands an investigation into the valacci case, and asks for a national day of grieving for the victims of the hindenburg disaster.

posted by skippy at 9:30 PM |