Bush's folks are trying to say that Kerry didn't "really" throw away medals at a rally, and that he has a contradicted himself with a couple of stories. As usual, the Bush folks are wrong. The long and short of it, according to the interview I heard today with Kerry, was that when the rally started forming, Kerry had some of his ribbons (which he said were interchangeably referred to also as "medals") there that he could throw, but he didn't have all of his medals there. He threw the ones he had in his posession. In terms of that demonstration, he said there was a discussion about throwing or returning (or perhaps placing them somewhere) but Kerry (who wanted to return them) was outvoted so joined the others in throwing the things.

It is a non-issue contrived by Karen Hughes and others merely to try to distract from the issues regarding Bush's lack of credible or truly honorable "service." (One can observe that his record is the same now as it was back then--he's not credible or honorable). Bush's folks are scared shitless at what will happen when Bush has to meet Kerry face-to-face and discuss anything truly substantive because Bush will sound so tongue-tied and non-intellectual. (Perhaps they'll try to make the case that Kerry's too smart to do the job properly!) Bush's folks are firing into the crowd now with all of this stuff that even when it's straightened out can't be called back, hoping Americans are so stupid they can't tell this stuff apart and will vote for Bush-lite again.

SRS