Troubled Waters?

The surf appears to be looking a little choppy for Mr. Kerry. The new book, Unfit for Command, which attacks Mr. Kerry's war record is comming out soon and it has some rather unflattering details. The book charges that Mr. Kerry lied about the account to which he was awarded his silver star and in the incident he went so far as to shoot a wounded Viet Cong soldier in the back while he was running away. It also accuses him of coming across an abandoned village and, after shooting all the livestock, burning it down. Very nasty and very Apocolypse Now. How much of it is true? I don't know and I'm not going to hazard a guess. However, I will say that this could be a nasty distraction, espcially as Mr. Kerry has mentioned that he committed "attrocities" during his tour in Vietnam and then gone on to make his service a centerpiece in his campaign.

Another thing is just the public perception of Mr. Kerry. A Boston blogger posted his thoughts on Mr. Kerry's percieved intellectual superiority over Mr. Bush. He's certainly not a Kerry fan, although he did make an interesting offer to the Kerry supporters for his defense.

Several other bloggers are in mixed reactions of worry or delight depending on where they stand in support of Mr. Kerry. Glen Reynolds has a compilation of some of these concerns.

But, as many of the undecided voters only care about what the candidates are going to do on the issues, all this may just blow over. We really won't be able to tell anything until the debates come. Hopefully Mr. Kerry will know how to sigh properly during the debate, for his sake.