I spent all day today making calls at Camp Pendleton, many of them down at the Battalion Aid Station level and I’m here to tell you, if these young Navy and Marine personnel I’m dealing with were any smarter it would be scary. They are far and away better educated and better trained than we ever were.

I’m exhausted, kicked back in my hotel room with a glass of Chablis, watching Hannity and Colmes, and just heard Tom Delay characterize Kerry as the gift that keeps on giving.

[Russ provided the recruiting poster separately and I inserted it in the post for him.  -- Bill F.]

Kerry’s Colors

I never thought there’d ever be
A thing I could dread more,
Than the horror I might live to see
A President Al Gore.
But when Kerry got the Dem’s pick,
Vying for our veteran votes,
Like other vets I re-upped quick
For a tour on Swiftees’ boats.

We handed him his haughty head
In November 2004,
Made him pay for all the lies he’d said
About us in our war.
We knew this colorful fellow;
He wasn’t red white and blue;
He was Hanoi red and yellow,
Or any shade would get him through.

Again he’s shown his colors true,
Neither olive green nor camo;
No, more a patrician, elitist blue,
To give him academic ammo.
Angry now he stands defying,
On millions of glowing tubes
Telling us our eyes are lying:
He didn’t call our troops all boobs.

Russ Vaughn

Contributed by Russ Vaughn on November 6, 2006 at 06:00 PM in Jean Fraud Kerry, Poetry, Russ Vaughn | Permalink

Comments

Posted by: Anna

Kerry isn't fit to lick your boots, Old War Dogs!

Posted by: Anna | Nov 6, 2006 11:22:04 PM

Posted by: Jim Bartimus

Good job Russ, I had a feeling you were up to something when you got quiet there for a while. You tick like a clock running on military time and never fail to deliver the goods RV.
For some reason when I read your work, I always hear a song.... Nice tune you got there.

Anyhow, Skerry can kiss my butt. I have very little tolerance for fools and ankle biters.

I will now return to putting keyboard imprints on my forehead and get ready to vote with a clear conscience. Thanks for the inspiration my friend, some of us don’t forget.

Posted by: Jim Bartimus | Nov 7, 2006 1:10:24 AM

Posted by: John Ingram

Keep it up Guys & Gals. Kerry may not be dead yet. As we know with snakes - you cut their heads off and they still continue to wiggle.

Semper Paratus!

Posted by: John Ingram | Nov 9, 2006 8:23:37 AM

Posted by: Anthony W. Pahl, OAM

Hey Russ - definitely a poem about the consequences of war... errr ummm... that is, for a bloke to act as stupid as JK does, he'd have to be suffering from PTSD... wouldn't he? I've added your poem to your IWVPA index at: KERRY'S COLORS

Posted by: Anthony W. Pahl, OAM | Dec 1, 2006 5:29:36 AM