Hey H2o,

I do think that character matters. To me, character and voting record both matter. Notice I didn't say that I think Kerry lacks character, or that Bush doesn't. Sadly, you're probably right about both of them in terms of making senator and governor. But, Im not sure you read my last post in the way I intended (maybe my writing could have been clearer).

I didn't intend to take any cheap shots at Kerry. Believe it or not, when I referenced the self inflicted wound (ouch), the ouch was more a reflection of how bad it sucks to get hit by your own splashback...... And I know because I have been hit by my own hot splashback. It would be no more fair for me to mock Kerry for that than it would be to mock the over 700 men that died just in the D-Day rehearsal (Or so I just heard on Paul Harvey's "The Rest of the Story").

I'm not sure if you were referencing me in saying that "righty" wanted Kerry to prove something. If so, Let me try to clarify: Nowhere have you seen me accuse either candidate of lying/cheating. I simply was asking the (naive) question and in one spot used Kerry as the example. I could just as easily use Bush as the example. The original point was simply: Couldn't at least one of these guys step up and end this nonsense pretty simply by just releasing their records?

But I guess you point out a good problem to my question if Bush's military records magically disapeared.....

P.S. If character didn't matter, I'd start the rumor that it was actually me who caught that 42 Lb pig you posted the other day.
That beats my largest, but I haven't given up hope.