But, I guess you can make him into a hero if you want to. All you have to do in order to make him into a ‘hero’ is to put your immoral spin onto the tens of thousands of deaths for which his team is responsible by destabilizing Iraq. I fail to see what is heroic about using super-power force in choosing to trash another country, failing repeatedly to secure it, and creating immense suffering for those people all of whom had suffered already, not to mention 2,700 dead American soldiers and tens of thousands of American soldiers coming home with brain injuries and lost limbs. Do you consider that competent policy? Sorry, the Bush-led team lost any claim to compentency when they smeared anyone who tried to warn them of potential problems. In particular, theyy blithely ignored El Baradei’s warning about securing the enormous [still sealed] warehouses of plastic explosives at Al Quaaba south of Baghdad. I guess you can figure out for yourself how those unsecured explosives have since been used to created deaths for innocent Iraqis and US soldiers. Such a simple matter of competence, but competence lost to hubris and, yes, short-sightedness. I believe the Bush supporters also chose to try to smear El Baradei, didn’t they?

“No one should engage in smearing a candidate with innuendos, let alone the use of cherry-picked bits of information or opinions. TO do so just cheapens our whole country.”

Then she says:

I have a very hard time forgetting and forgiving the swift-boat team who thought it fine and dandy to trash a war hero for the politics only purpose of re-electing a non-hero who is certainly no sufficiently competent to lead us”.

Amazing twist of of double-think you have delivered Donna.

That said, since those who were on the Swift-boat team (many who were registered Democrats)served in Vietnam can they not be be considered heroes much like John Kerry the noted Vietnam Veteran who had trashed and smeared and made-up stuff about those Swift-boat men who served honorably?

And what about your trashing a candidate who faithfully served his time in the National Guard?

Now what were you saying about ugliness and short-sightedness?

The Cardin campaign I haven’t been following but I heartily reject the charges against Webb. It’s just an attempt to turn Allen’s self-inflicted wounds around.

Besides, how many incidents from Allen are you going to try to write off before you admit, where’s there’s smoke, there’s fire.

Allen is damaged goods, it’s time to for him to retire and go off to K Street and make his fortune.

Would the ugliness of anti-Semitism and racism the Democrat leadership find uncomfortable about their Left base have anything to do with Ivory Tower ‘peace studies’ education?

Not long ago I thought the unholy alliance between the Progressive Left and Islamic Jihadism was based upon the Left’s disgust with capitalist systems and any ally which attacks capitalistic systems is an ally of the Progressive Left but after hearing the anti-Semitism and racism of the past five years I am beginning to wonder if the Progressive Left allies with Islamic Jihadists because they really do hate Jews, more specifically the Zionists, because Jews are typically a self-sufficient tribe. The Progressive Left has always used people of color as food to feed their idea that only governments can provide social justice and a black person for example who does not adhere to the groupthink collective disrupts the utopian concept. They need proverty-stricken people in order to justify their cause, they need victims to validate their existence.

I live in NYC and have been appalled by the number of Jewish NYers identifying themselves as Progressive Leftists speak much like what Islamists speak as in ‘get rid of Isreal, those evil Zionist Jews” speak. I remember when Air America wanted to get on the air they pushed the only all-black operated radio station off the air.

Democrat leaders are going to discover that their problems with their base run much deeper than just a few frustrated youths: they are facing an ideology based upon a collective groupthink which believes only they are capable of producing a socially just utopia and anyone who falls outside the whole is declared an evil enemy.