Now I'd like him to attack them where they are strongest -- terrorism. Hit him again and again -- vacation in August 2001, pulling out of Afghanistan before finishing the job. repeat.

Incidentally, I have no particular problem with fight. But that's me.

I'm just tearing my hair out sometimes because at the end of the day, I think Kerry is a really fascinating person who could well be a very great president and it will be the biggest goddamned shame if he & his people can't get voters to see that.  You know, maybe this is unfortunately old school in today's political climate, but Kerry is a serious, trustworthy, and honorable man and has an immense amount of integrity.  He doesn't sell out his friends for political gain and he doesn't assassinate the character of his political enemies like the petty, miserable thugs currently installed in the White House, these fools who have no regard for ethics and common decency.  Maybe his advisers think emphasizing such qualities doesn't poll well because most politicians are more or less bereft of them and therefore the polls say, don't try to show it, you will look fake.  But Kerry's the real deal.

So why the fuck do we have to talk about fights and Vietnam?????  And even if we do, the story for me is not really even about Kerry getting hit by shrapnel or pulling Jim Rassman out of the water, and it's annoying that the Swift Liars managed to reduce the issue to these isolated little moments, taking it out of the larger narrative.