This just in from the Department of Desperate Flailings...

Kerry Criticizes Cheney for Avoiding Vietnam War

NANTUCKET, Mass. (Reuters) - Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) hit back at Dick Cheney on Thursday by raising the Republican's failure to serve in the Vietnam War and asking voters to weigh his two tours of duty against the vice president's five deferments.

*Yawn* So much for taking the week off while the other party has its convention. Question, since when does the Presidential candidate rip into the VP candidate? Better question... when did this stop applying?:

"I am saddened by the fact that Vietnam has yet again been inserted into the campaign, and that it has been inserted in what I feel to be the worst possible way. By that I mean that yesterday, during this Presidential campaign, and even throughout recent times, Vietnam has been discussed and written about without an adequate statement of its full meaning. We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways. Someone who was deeply against the war in 1969 or 1970 may well have served their country with equal passion and patriotism by opposing the war as by fighting in it. Are we now, 20 years or 30 years later, to forget the difficulties of that time, of families that were literally torn apart, of brothers who ceased to talk to brothers, of fathers who disowned their sons, of people who felt compelled to leave the country and forget their own future and turn against the will of their own aspirations?" -- John Kerry Jan 30, 1992

'Nother flip-flop, eh Senator Kerry? Oh wait, silly me. I keep forgetting that some things are okay and some things are wrong, depending on if you have a (D) or an (R) after your name. Congrats Senator Kerry, you've finally found something that you're 100% consistant on... liberal hypocrisy.