Christine’s already getting sick of my political passions and there’s still almost 200 days until the general election. I need to shut up at home or something..

“You’re not listening to me!”

It’s kind of poetic, I think, the way the democratic party has pushed John F. Kerry out in front without doing their own investigation of him. If they had, I don’t think they would have allowed Mr. Kerry to run for president on their ticket.

I guess it’s admirable that John F. Kerry has had his eye on being an elected official since he was very young. Personally, it bothers me a little that he seems to have always been more concerned about appearances rather than substance.

Here’s some interesting news. Insight Of The News has a piece about John F. Kerry’s three purple hearts during his tour of duty in Vietnam.

After reading what pain and misery Kerry had to endure to receive a whopping three Purple Heart decorations (i.e. not much), I wondered what the story is on the Purple Heart decoration. A google search took me to this page: <http://www.purpleheart.org/>. This site has a nice piece on the history of the decoration — originally described by General George Washington in 1782 — and its use today.

An excerpt:

The Purple Heart is a military decoration for men and women who have shown a willingness to sacrifice their own health—or their life—for their country.

For someone to personally request this decoration for themselves for minor, questionable injuries seems downright disrespectful. Is this the kind of man we want representing us as a country?

Oh, here’s another one: Slate has a condensed version (a set of excerpts, really) from John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography, the book brought to us by the Boston Globe.

There are definitely some juicy bits in this book, apparently.

And here’s another one: a condensation/excerptation of Douglas Brinkley’s Tour of Duty - John Kerry and the Vietnam War.

“I don't want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I'm confident I have.”

I don’t think anybody every caught John Kerry saying that. :-)