That being said, he's a successful politician, which is impossible for an honest person to achieve (and I can't think of any exceptions on the national scene, including W). Further, being a Texan who has never lived in New England, I regard most folks from Massachusetts as odd.

I guess he really does not understand Americans. After all, most of us are fallible human beings that screw up on a regular basis. But we admit it. Perhaps one day he'll climb down from Mt. Olympus and join us. As it is, he's getting quite a reputation for double speaking and being caught in lies and blames it on Republicans instead of taking ownership of his own words and deeds.

The VRWC has been hyping this for almost a year and drawn a yawn from MSM. Now suddenly MSM is on the case?

You can tell this is not a VRWC story any more because in all the time the VRWC pushed the case for questioning his VN exploits, medals, and post-war action, it never put a label on the situation. Suddenly, we have "Medalgate" ... and labeling is a demolib imprimatur.

Also, have I detected red herring in hanoijohn recent "protests" for Bush/Cheney to stop using tactics of personal destruction? Personal destruction attacks are another imprimatur of the demolib machine. When I see hanoijohn pleading with "Bush/Cheney" to stop, is he really addressing the klintoon kartel?

It looks like hanoijohn and the klintoon kartel are having a food fight using "Bush/Cheney" as a surrogate

Just wondering ...

But to infer that any anti-Vietnam war activity might have been foolish or impetuous would be suicide with a great deal of his constituency. These are the sorts of people who have excused the violent acts of groups such as the Weathermen on the premise that their goal was noble. He has to court a large number of peolpe who have defined the most important acts of their life by these "foolish" acts.

---