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Let’s SEE that 180!

• Posted by Beth on May 24th, 2005 filed in General, Politics    

Somehow (unsurprisingly) this isn’t getting the media attention I expect:

AT THIS POINT it comes as no surprise. John Kerry is releasing all his military records — but then again, he isn’t.

‘I have signed it,” Kerry said. Then, he added that his staff was ‘’still going through it” and ”very, very shortly, you will have a chance to see it.”

The devil is usually in the details. With Kerry, it’s also in the dodges and digressions. After the interview, Kerry’s communications director, David Wade, was asked to clarify when Kerry signed SF 180 and when public access would be granted. Kerry drifted over to join the conversation, immediately raising the confusion level. He did not answer the question of when he signed the form or when the entire record will be made public.

Several e-mails later, Wade conveyed the following information: On Friday, May 20, Kerry obtained a copy of Form 180 and signed it. ”The next step is to send it to the Navy, which will happen in the next few days. The Navy will then send out the records,” e-mailed Wade. Kerry first said he would sign Form 180 when pressed by Tim Russert during a Jan. 30 appearance on ”Meet the Press.”

Six months after Kerry’s loss to George W. Bush, it feels somewhat gratuitous to point out how hard it can be to get a clear, straight answer from Kerry on this and other matters. But as long as the Massachusetts senator is thinking about another presidential run, the candor gap remains on the table, because he puts it there.

So he’s signed it, but not even submitted it? Might as well sign his name on a napkin.

TYPICAL! So he signs it but won’t send it to the Navy! If it weren’t so damned offensive, it would be hilarious. Two-faced, flip-flopping sonofabitch.

Jenna Thomas-McKie created a new countup clock showing how many days it’s been since he supposedly signed the SF180, until we get to actually see what his records say.

N.Z. Bear asks a good question: If he signs the 180, does that let [Former Secretary of the Navy] Middendorf (or anyone else) talk?

Others waiting to see what he’s been HIDING:

Here’s a Kerry joke for you, via email from my aunt:

A lobbyist, on his way home from work in Washington, D.C., came to a dead halt in traffic and thought to himself, “Wow, this seems worse than usual.”

He noticed a police officer walking between the lines of stopped cars, so he rolled down his window and asked, “Officer, what’s the hold-up?” The officer replied, “It’s John Kerry, he is depressed, so he stopped his Land Rover and is threatening to douse himself in gasoline and set himself on fire. “He says no one believes his stories about his Medals from Vietnam, or the mission he supposedly went on in Cambodia on Christmas Eve 1968, and that his effort to become the President failed miserably, despite the MSM’s help. The press called him on the lies about his voting record in the Senate, and now his wife dropped the “Kerry” surname. So we’re taking up a collection for him.”

The lobbyist asks, “How much have you got so far?” The officer replies, “About 14 gallons, but a lot of folks are still siphoning.”