fancyred wrote:
AZKC wrote:
I am not arguing his record, I freely admit he served in VietNam, was wounded and received medals while serving and was honorably discharged.

All I am saying is that taken as part of his whole life, it wasn't the best part to build a presidential campaign around. He was 57 when he ran for president and if those four months of service were the high point of this life, the events that best showed beyond a doubt that he was the best candidate to be POTUS, he probably shouldn't have run in the first place.


Did you mean to say 4 years?  Kerry actually served from 1966 to 1970.

John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver/Bronze stars, purple hearts
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2011/Info/military-service.html

If you want to compare who served and who didn't serve, just check it out.
I said four months because when John Kerry talked about his service, it was only about his time in command of a swift boat.

He didn't say a great deal during the opening of his campaign about his time on the USS Gridley that I remember.


"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson