"Vietnam Vets against Kerry...
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"So I just saw an ad with a bunch of Vets talking smack about Kerry and at the end as the camera pulls back to show about 25 or 30 vets you notice something very interesting - not a single black man amongst them. Even though we all know blacks were disproportionately respresented in Nam.
Now here is something noone dares say in the media but which everyone knows:
90% of the lower middle class and poor folks that somehow vote against their own self-interest; i.e., for Republicans do so because they are motivated by racism. Wonder how many of our fellow travelers for Bush this applies to?"
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The key to this nonsense is in "we" all know---By we he is referring once again to liberals who throw up opinions void of facts and hope it sticks. Unfortunately there are always those that like to take it as gospel and don't want the facts and even if someone presents them to them they will trump facts with opinion cause that is what they would like you to believe---and by the way ocelet it is not just us Viet Nam Vets against Kerry it is ALL military including those serving by amost 70%---Take a look at Kerrys stance--he was against war in Nam and he pronounced the Vets there were rapist and killers--he is against war in Iraq( on his last position) but now in his ads they are all heros---you can't see the forest for the trees but Vets can.
the real facts on your statement---
"For instance, the war was not fought primarily by reluctant draftees, predominantly composed of the poor, the young, or racial minorities. The poor and the minorities fought and died in Vietnam, but so did the middle class. The record indicates that 86% of those who died during the war were white and 12.5% were black, from an age group in which blacks comprised 13.1% of the population. Two thirds of those who served in Vietnam were volunteers, and volunteers accounted for 77% of combat deaths."
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---if I were black I look at those those that Bush put in his cabinet in highly prdominant spots of which I think they have done outstanding jobs--then I would look at Kerry campaigning in a black church every Sunday and ask myself how many black churches has he been in prior to election and how many he will be in after.
Its boils down to actions speak louder than words.