Reply #5: I'm disgusted. [View All]

[_dynamicdems]

Hillary can go pound sand. Opportunistic doesn't even start to describe her. No wonder why Bill admires Rove's Machiavellian tactics. He sees some of the same in himself and Hillary.

No matter what people say, Bill Clinton wasn't strong when he went nutso in that interview. He came off as a horse's ass. And it was after the fact: too late to do any good. He'd already gotten his ass kicked by Disney. He should have voiced his outraged before the airing of the docudrama. Instead he pops his lid over a FOX news interview. Clinton was Swiftboated and he didn't do a damn thing except whine noisily afterward. Anybody who saw the docudrama and then watched Bill Clinton go apoplectic on FOX would conclude the man doth protest too much.

Now what has Bill actually done other than the one entertaining rant? If there is something, enlighten me, because I'm not seeing it.

Kerry, on the other hand, used what he learned from the Swiftboating episode to strengthen the defenses of ALL veterans. He's actually done something that nobody else has: he's put together a line of defense in support of any veterans who come under attack. He learned that the first place they attack is the veterans because veterans have credibility when they speak out about war. Kerry jumps to the defense of veterans verbally, campaigns for them and raises huge sums of money to combat the lies being spread by the neocons. When Kerry talks about kicking the swifties asses if they go after him again, he doesn't mean he's going to indulge in an ineffective Boltonesque temper tantrum.

What he's going to do is thoroughly and completely discredit them. In fact, he's already started. Every time he helps a veteran under attack and exposes the lies directed at them, Kerry makes a step toward bringing down the network of liars.

The thing is: you have to be careful in the way you defend yourself or you come off as a total jerk, or worse, like you have something to hide. What was lacking in 2004 wasn't a strong defense of John Kerry by John Kerry. It was a strong defense of John Kerry by other Democrats.

Can you imagine how much of an idiot John Kerry would have looked like if he took a nervy on television the way Clinton did? They would say he was too irrational and lacked the control to be President. This time, should the senator come under attack again, there is a network in place. All those who Kerry helped will be helping him. His band of brothers has expanded.