{"id":1201,"date":"2004-03-29T22:07:13","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T05:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2004-03-29T22:07:13","modified_gmt":"2004-03-30T05:07:13","slug":"kerry-on-the-dick-cavett-show-on-c-span","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/03\/29\/kerry-on-the-dick-cavett-show-on-c-span\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry on the Dick Cavett Show on C-SPAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>As far as I can tell, John Kerry has had two<\/i> interesting moments in his more or less staid political career. No less; no more. His 1972 stint at the head of “Vietnam Vets Against the War”, and a prosecutorial stint getting the ball rolling on Iran-Contra.<\/p>\n

This last weekend, C-SPAN aired a 1972 broadcast of with him debating the head spokesman for “Vietnam Veterans For A Just Peace” (euphemism for “Vietnam Veterans for the War”) on the Dick Cavett Show.<\/p>\n

They’ll show it again. They’ve probably shown it before.<\/p>\n

I suppose I might’ve gotten more out of the airing if it were not for the boorish friend of my roommate, who sat down saying “This is b-s”, “f#ing John Kerry, man!” and “This is stupid… they just keep saying the same sh## over and over again.”<\/p>\n

But never mind — I disgress. I’m a little weird anyway. I’m boorish in my own way…<\/p>\n

I’m not sure if I can say that I saw anything transferrable to our current political scene, even if it did feed a history-jonsing of sorts. Kerry either had an idealism that he’s since lost to career politics, or he was setting his political future. (Note that Gary Tradeau weighed in<\/a> with his opinion.) Whichever one, the young Kerry was an impressive young speaker.<\/p>\n

And the other figure managed to sneak in some “America Right or Wrong” “Support the Troops” rhetoric in his debate. Rhetoric that was easily enough smashed.<\/p>\n

Maybe my roommate’s friend was right, and watching this was b-s… watching the same old sh$$ coming at us again and again…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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