We're governed by idiots, who want to treat us like idiots. The Republicans, undeniably idiots, try to smear John Kerry's service to the country and his right to protest the foolish Vietnam war, by lumping him in with Jane Fonda and dredging up the old animus against her.
They spoke at the same rally in 1970 (or sometime a long time ago.) They're in the same picture. Big hairy deal. It's incredible the way we mince up history and reinterpret history based on the fanaticism and craziness of the moment. A war that was about universally condemned a few years ago, Vietnam, is now undergoing the Bush 'revisionist history' treatment and to have protested it is now as 'unpatriotic' as it is to question Bush's criminal actions in Iraq.
Anyway, if we truly are such idiots that the Bush administration can sell-out America and get away with it, then we probably deserve exactly what we get.
