Changed Your Mind, Eh John?

A few months ago, John Kerry pleaded with DNC chairman Terry McAwful to stop questioning George Bush's National Guard service. Now, Kerry needs to change the subject, so he's raising the issue himself.

And of course, he gets all the help he wants from the New York Times.

ABC caught Kerry in a lie and exposed him yesterday. Kerry responded by accusing Bush of evading National Guard service.

"This is a controversy that the Republicans are pushing," Mr. Kerry said on "Good Morning America" on ABC. "The Republicans have spent $60 million in the last few weeks trying to attack me, and this comes from a president and a Republican Party that can't even answer whether or not he showed up for duty in the National Guard. I'm not going to stand for it."

Later in the day, Mr. Kerry challenged what he called attacks on his military record from Republicans who did not fight in Vietnam.

"I did obviously fight in Vietnam, and I was wounded there, and I served there and was very proud of my service," Mr. Kerry said. "To have these people, all of whom made a different choice, attack me for it is obviously disturbing."

The truth is that Kerry lpush the issue to the forefront by lying to Peter Jennings, the LA Times and just about everyone else since that fateful day in 1971.

One has to read two-thirds of the way through the Times' article to learn what provoked Kerry's temper tantrum.