“BHO has a particular legend (e.g. story) with peculiar details, and some serious known inconsistencies, and questionable associations from family, to friends, to business.”

“We would all like to know more.”

I certainly would like to know more, and not the stuff of legend. We get nothing but nuance in what “OH” and you offer, Benj, and no substance. To use an apt but rather tired phrase…, where’s the beef?

I have nearly concluded that the reason we cannot get at the heart of the matter is because “OH” has none, that this great sophomoric prank of running for pres has somehow gone way out of his control. I have read the books Benj, I have watched the video and I can read the words and make sense of their meaning.

You are way off base, my interpretation of the video performance was that it was meant to puff up a fellows failing opinion of himself. My experience is that such stuff is based on some small albeit tenuous link to truth, and the realization that getting even the slightest confirmation of any truth from “OH” would be miraculous.

Hence Kurtz complaint that a whole set of documents that may reveal something of merit, something of substance was about to go missing. It isn’t “swift boating” that we need to fear, it is a lack of documentation, the lack of substantiation, the lack of verification that leads me to claim Missouri citizenship. SHOW ME.

That is what the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth asked of Kerry, and what Kerry failed to provide, documentation and proof of what Kerry claimed. Now there may be a reason why he felt he could not remain true to himself if he provided the documents. It is within the realm of possibilities that he was in Cambodia at Christmas, and that he did act with honor on the river that day when his mates were in need. And he may have gotten an honorable discharge despite all the lame brained stunts he pulled with the “winter soldiers” before Congress and in Paris with the NVA while still a commissioned officer.

Tell me what is honorable in those acts, show me what truth about the fog of war was brought to light. Honorable men do not act do not accuse others of dishonor without cause. With out the merest of documentation, we all have to judge for ourselves, if Kerry did or did not act with honor.

So now, where is the honor in stonewalling a reasonable request for information? How is what you interpret…to be the case…, to be measured against black and white verification. How is what I interpret to be verified except through documentation. Where is the beef, Benj? How can we take the measure of the man, when where is nowhere a man to measure? What is there of “OH” is just an empty suit.

Don’t tell me, show me. I do not want words, I demand solid evidence. It is time to put up. Show me.