{"id":858,"date":"2004-09-14T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=858"},"modified":"2004-09-14T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-14T16:37:00","slug":"858","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>TESTING KERRY&#8217;S &#8220;MEDAL&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To be truthful, I haven&#8217;t really cared a fig for the charges of the Swift Boat Veterans or the obsession of Kevin Drum over Bush&#8217;s Air Guard service. Had CBS and 60 Minutes &#8211; the show whose partisan producer once shot a segment in order to rescue Bill Clinton from early philandering charges-  not been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A18982-2004Sep13?language=printer\">caught peddling clumsy forgeries<\/a> I&#8217;d have never posted on the subject at all.  What either man did back then has zero bearing on their fitness for office today and as far as I&#8217;m concerned, Kerry&#8217;s volunteering for combat is enough for me. I assumed that was also Bush&#8217;s and Kerry&#8217;s attitudes as well.<\/p>\n<p>Surprise. Surprise. Senator Kerry <a href=\"http:\/\/innocuousconclusions.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/hoorah-go-navy.html\">actually agrees in principle with the Swift Boat Veterans<\/a> ! He just wants to be exempted from the standard he has applied in the past to others.<\/p>\n<p>Live by the sword&#8230;&#8230;<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TESTING KERRY&#8217;S &#8220;MEDAL&#8221; To be truthful, I haven&#8217;t really cared a fig for the charges of the Swift Boat Veterans or the obsession of Kevin Drum over Bush&#8217;s Air Guard service. Had CBS and 60 Minutes &#8211; the show whose partisan producer once shot a segment in order to rescue Bill Clinton from early philandering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}