This analysis over at Power Line tells me the story is not going to go away, no matter what Kerry and the DNC want. Glenn Reynolds took the time to check the law library to make sure Kerry actually said such things.
For my part, I have to agree that there is far more wrong with Kerry than simple absent-mindedness. I simply shook my head at Kerry’s story when he mentioned Nixon as President in 1968. For people like him, Vietnam will always be Nixon’s War. Nixon ended it. He first tried negotiation, then bombed until the North Vietnamese returned to the table.. When they balked, he bombed again. They finally came to an agreement.
Vietnam was Johnson’s war, a war he had no heart to prosecute. He felt it would take attention away from the Great Society programs he was trying to institute. Yes, Kennedy sent the first troops in. But Johnson expanded it.
It is really odd to me that Kerry would base his campaign on his service in Vietnam. There are far too many skeletons in that closet–skeletons he knows exist. Is that the ultimate in arrogance?
And, is the ACLU AWOL?