Advice from Bill
Matt Drudge reports that former President Bill Clinton has advised M. Kerry to stop talking about Vietnam and focus instead on the issues Democrats delude themselves into thinking will win for them: health care and the economy.
Seen those job creation numbers recently, Bill?
As far as it goes, the advice to stop talking about Vietnam is good; Bob Dole gave Kerry the same advice a while back. As Dole pointed out, everybody knows that Kerry was in Vietnam. The trouble with trying to make it the centerpiece of the Kerry campaign, though, is twofold: first, it really isn't an effective response to the simple recitation of Kerry's sad and sorry record in the Senate on defense and national security issues. And besides- mention "Vietnam" and "John Kerry" in the same breath, and anybody who is up to speed thinks "war hero" only after thinking of the testimony Kerry gave to that congressional committee repeating before all the world the slanders about American fighting men that POW's were enduring torture in the Hanoi Hilton at that very moment in order to avoid saying.
Seen those job creation numbers recently, Bill?
As far as it goes, the advice to stop talking about Vietnam is good; Bob Dole gave Kerry the same advice a while back. As Dole pointed out, everybody knows that Kerry was in Vietnam. The trouble with trying to make it the centerpiece of the Kerry campaign, though, is twofold: first, it really isn't an effective response to the simple recitation of Kerry's sad and sorry record in the Senate on defense and national security issues. And besides- mention "Vietnam" and "John Kerry" in the same breath, and anybody who is up to speed thinks "war hero" only after thinking of the testimony Kerry gave to that congressional committee repeating before all the world the slanders about American fighting men that POW's were enduring torture in the Hanoi Hilton at that very moment in order to avoid saying.
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