Integrity, Integrity, Integrity… or Lies, Lies, Lies?

A Blogs For Bush reader has informed me of something quite interesting about a story John Kerry told last night at the debate.

When asked about what he’s learned from the strong women in his life, Kerry made a point to shift his answer from discussing Teresa and his daughters to telling a story about his late mother:

Can I say, if I could just say a word about a woman that you didn’t ask about, but my mom passed away a couple years ago, just before I was deciding to run, and she was in the hospital and I went in to talk to her and tell her what I was thinking of doing. And she looked at me from her hospital bed and she just looked at me and she said, “Remember, integrity, integrity, integrity.” Those are the three words that she left me with.

Did that at all sound familiar to you? It did to me, but I couldn’t figure it out… Well, here’s why it is familiar.

Vietnam veteran John Rassman, who joined Kerry on the campaign trail earlier this year, said something remarkably similar … or should I say identical:

After serving with John Kerry, a veteran says Kerry is better suited to serve in the White House. Jim Rassman was in Eau Claire on Tuesday to campaign for Kerry. Rassman says Kerry saved his life when he pulled him out of a river during a battle in Vietnam. Rassman says he voted for Bush in 2000, but says he doesn’t plan to back the President this time around. “There are three character traits John has that George Bush does not have and they are integrity, integrity, integrity. I trust John Kerry implicitly. I don’t trust a thing George Bush tells me,” said Rassman.

Is John Kerry so lacking in integrity that he actually borroed Rassman’s quote and falsely attribute it to his own dying mother to make a political statement?

Is there anything John Kerry won’t do to influence voters?

John Kerry Watch

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