killa kerry?

who you callin' 'yellow'?

I hope that a comment on yesterday’s post was a joke said in bad taste. However, I know that the person who made the comment ‘tends’ to vote in favor of Republican policy and believes in many of the GOP’s ideas. His comment:

i cannot vote for a guy who actually killed asian folks

At this moment in time any humor I may have found in the statements outrageousness was overwhelmed by a sickening sense that it would not be beyond Karl Rove to deny involvement in ‘push poll’ calls to Asian-American voters asking “Would you vote for a candidate who has personally killed Asians?”
I replied:

check the stats on who has sent more people to death...
it seems that you would be inclined to vote for the one candidate who protested the atrocities he witnessed in war...
i'm glad you won't be voting for the party that refuses to listen to concerns such as yours, back then and now. they would question your patriotism for speaking ill of one our troops doing his duty.
your stance against unwarranted violence against other cultures can only lead me to the conclusion that you would support the democrats this time...

I think we’re all pretty sick of Kerry deciding to prove his manhood by referencing his time as a soldier waaay more than his time as an objector. JT of Mouther had some information to add to the discussion. Part of his comments are presented here:

…if they somehow believe that either Kerry, Bush, or the Bush administration/family PERSONALLY remain pristinely untouched by world events that "killed Asian folks" like the Korean War (of which my father was a survivor), they are DREAMING. Neither has their hands clean…
…Since neither candidate, and neither party, is personally "clean" of this involvement, I would probably tell the person writing this comment is that the overriding goal would be to elect someone whose PARTY at least HELD ITSELF OUT to stand for expanding the rights of minority peoples both abroad + in the U.S…