Former U.S. Senator, John Kerry who is presently the Secretary of State ran against President George W. Bush in the 2004 Presidential election. It was Bush's bid for reelection and he and his financial supporters set out to discredit Kerry's war record. John Kerry was a decorated Viet Nam war veteran who received three purple hearts. Bush sat out the war in the Texas Air National Guard and was well aware of the contrast to Kerry's war record.
The Bush people and their financial supporters took to the media the idea that Kerry did not earn his third purple heart, attacked his anti-war stand after his return from Viet Nam and actually questioned his military service. The ads placed against Kerry by Bush's supporters came to be known as the "swift boar ads." Many of the millionaires who paid for those ads cut and ran during their generations war. The personal attacks against Kerry took a toll on his campaign.
Now comes Donald Trump in an effort to discredit the President and Hillary Clinton has personally attacked both by declaring that the President was the founder of ISIS and that Hillary was the co-founder. Trump, like many of those in the Bush administration also cut and ran during the Viet Nam war. Trump's embrace of the republican party's personal attacks puts him squarely in their camp and once again shows how small of a person he really is in trying to link the President and Clinton to ISIS. Trump's copy cat mentality from the republican party's play book can be documented through out the campaign.
The President and Clinton have contributed so much more positive positions to the political process and every day life while Trump's selfish ego wallows in his own adulation. Oh, and by the way, Trump did not oppose the war in Iraq when the war started. Another one of his lies that is documented. When free will, a person's ability to choose is used in a negative way to hurt people, that person is weak, not strong. And that really says it all.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
