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Aug. 16th, 2004 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakAfter a long and convoluted web-crawl that originally had no intention of going anywhere near the presidential campaign I ran across this article. According to Snopes, Kerry's "questionably" awarded medals are less the fault of him being a gloryhound shamelessly pimping for medals every time he got a scrap of shrapnel or a hangnail, and more a product of Navy regs at the time combined with the high rate of injury in Vietnam making it awfully easier to get a Purple Heart than it was supposed to be. Easier to get a PH than it's supposed to be now, for that matter.
I'm still not voting for him. Partly because of his decision to throw away medals that may or may not have been his, as part of his anti-war demonstrations. I want to find some third party candidate who I can vote for with a reasonably clear conscience.
But it makes me feel a bit better to know that the charges Kerry was *trying* for unearned extra medals, which he later disrespected, and that he pulled strings to get out of the war when he'd barely been scratched, are not the rock-solid truth that FoxNews and the Republican party like to say it is. Snopes has a good solid reputation, and is simply out there to debunk all sorts of rumors and scandals and urban legends that hang on perniciously despite having no basis in truth. As far as I can tell, they don't have any partisan leanings.
Now to try and find somebody to vote for from a third party, who's managed to get on the Nebraskan ticket.... Hmmmmm. I wonder how you find that out....
I'm still not voting for him. Partly because of his decision to throw away medals that may or may not have been his, as part of his anti-war demonstrations. I want to find some third party candidate who I can vote for with a reasonably clear conscience.
But it makes me feel a bit better to know that the charges Kerry was *trying* for unearned extra medals, which he later disrespected, and that he pulled strings to get out of the war when he'd barely been scratched, are not the rock-solid truth that FoxNews and the Republican party like to say it is. Snopes has a good solid reputation, and is simply out there to debunk all sorts of rumors and scandals and urban legends that hang on perniciously despite having no basis in truth. As far as I can tell, they don't have any partisan leanings.
Now to try and find somebody to vote for from a third party, who's managed to get on the Nebraskan ticket.... Hmmmmm. I wonder how you find that out....
