It's clear that the Right will make this an issue. Apparently Kerry, after having fulfilled his duty to the United States Military, thought the Vietnam War was an unjust and criminal war. So naturally that makes him a traitor. In particular there is a picture of Kerry at a protest with Jane Fonda in 1970. Joe Conason breaks it down in today's post.
"On Monday, Rush Limbaugh published a photograph of Fonda at what appears to be an antiwar rally, under the headline "John Kerry With Hanoi Jane in September, 1970." And indeed, a blurry face about two rows behind her does resemble the young Kerry.
But Limbaugh, like so many who attack Kerry for working with Fonda against the war, distorts reality. Fonda didn't travel to Hanoi until August 1972. Obviously that was two years after the September 1970 rally and, more important, a year after she joined demonstrations led by Kerry and his fellow vets in Vietnam Veterans Against the War."
So I guess the accusation is that Kerry's failure to predict that Jane Fonda would visit Vietnam and steer clear of her should make him ineligible for the Presidency.
Rush does (as Conason points out) sound a little nuts discussing this. "You want to go out there and you want to attack George W. Bush, the commander-in-chief, in charge of the war on terror, fine.
We've got pictures of Jane Fonda in Hanoi. We've got pictures of Kerry throwing those medals of other people over the fence. We got Tom Hayden. We got the Chicago Eight. We've got all those people spitting on the soldiers when they came back. We've got all the Democrats calling them "baby killers." We've got it all, if you want to bring it back up."
I really really really doubt that Rush has pictures of all "those people" spitting on soldiers or all the Democrats calling them "baby killers." Really, all the Democrats? That doesn't make any sense.
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