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Hornswaggle is an alternate spelling of
hornswoggle, an archaic word that means to bamboozle or hoodwink. I take my
pronunciation from the late Harvey Korman in "Blazing Saddles" --
"I want rustlers, cutthroats, murderers,
bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits,
vipers, snipers, conmen, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers,
buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswagglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train
robbers, bank robbers, ass kickers, shit kickers and Methodists!"
The question I'd like to see the media address is, who is John O'Neill, the man who accused John Kerry of not having been wounded enough in Vietnam.
What does he do and how does he vote?
O'Neill said a lot of things about Kerry, and according to this article the two have a history together, but the tidbit that made headlines was that Kerry was not a war hero and wasn't fit to soap the testicles of some of the men in Coastal Division 11.
How can you accuse a man of not having been wounded enough? The goal of every soldier is, to the extent it is possible in carrying out one's duties, to avoid being wounded and killed. What's next? I supppose we should run a cadaver for president. "See how brave Emeril P. Murphy was? He's dead! But he ... has ... character."
John Kerry volunteered to go to Vietnam, served his stint, then volunteered to go back. He was wounded in the line of duty.
Quibbling about whether Kerry qualifies as a war hero is petty. Clearly, it's understood that others in the military have paid greater prices and performed more admirably than did John Kerry.
But compared to George W. Bush, Kerry is Sgt. Rock. We're working on a relative scale here.
