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2004-04-23 Home Front: Politix

FLASHBACK: May 22, 1971 - A Soldier and a Socialite

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Posted by Super Hose 2004-04-23 04:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "...a very charismatic fellow looking for a good issue."

Charismatic!? I don't think so. But looks like he was already thinking of how to sell himself.

Posted by AF Lady 2004-04-23 7:57:54 AM|| 2004-04-23 7:57:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 His oratorical flair. . .
(Who, Lurchie?, I am laughing so hard I have a pain in my sides. He has an annoying affectation that the so-called intellegensia love.)

phrases which rang so eloquently over television . .
(How eloquent were those phrases in the VVAW meeting in KC?)

Kerry did the Washington social scene and slept in a clean bed.
(With the richest heiress he could smooth-talk)

Kerry is not so uptight about Viet Nam as to be militant or radical.
(There is a disconnect here. Refer to previous comment about VVAW in KC)
Stephens . . .drawing on more than 30 months' experience in the Viet Nam theater -- many (five) times that of Kerry. Stephens argued that the United States could not morally pull out so fast as to endanger the lives of those thousands of South Vietnamese who had trusted the American promise of deliverance from the Communist enemy.
(we know who was prophetic in retrospect. Garden Grove, California uses the former South Vietnam flag as their city flag. The population is majority Vietnam immigrants)

Stephens' testimony might have escaped public attention altogether had not Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, Republican floor leader, complained that the TV networks had ignored it. (Walter Walrus, and the rest of them thoughtful folks on the evening news at the time decided that Mr. Stephens was inconsequential.)

Posted by Anonymous4052 2004-04-23 12:38:48 PM|| 2004-04-23 12:38:48 PM|| Front Page Top

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