John Kerry, Vietnam veteran, thinks it is ridiculous to exploit your Vietnam (the war in which John Kerry served) service while running for President. At least, he thought that when someone else was using it against his preferred candidate. From The Hill:
A decade ago, however, Kerry rose in the Senate on two separate occasions to decry presidential candidates who used their military service record as a qualification for the highest office.I guess he felt that way while in throw-my-buddy's-medals-over-the-White-House-fence mode. What a loser. Did you know he fought in Vietnam?
On Feb. 27, 1992, Kerry defended then presidential candidate Bill Clinton against an attack by his Democratic rival Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.). As the primary season unfolded, Kerrey, who lost part of his leg in Vietnam, had peppered Clinton with uncomfortable questions about whether the Arkansan had evaded the draft.
Kerry hit back at his Senate colleague, saying: “I am saddened by the fact that Vietnam has yet again been inserted into the campaign, and that it has been inserted in what I feel to be the worst possible way… What saddens me most is that Democrats, above all those who shared the agonies of that generation, should now be re-fighting the many conflicts of Vietnam in order to win the current political conflict of a presidential primary.”
Thanks to reader identified as Marblehead for pointing this out.
