Though there is no hard proof of dishonesty in the Kerry campaign, they sure do like to add suspicion to themselves. Over the last few months, several items and links had been on their website, and then removed after various news items came out. For instance, there was a reference to their campaign book saying that the introduction had been written by a man named Michael Kranish. After the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ad came out, and the Kerry campaign threatened to sue to block the ad from running, an article written by that same Michael Kranish was published in the Boston Globe saying that one of the veterans, a George Elliot, had recanted the story he told in the ad. Very soon after Elliot put out a press release or some such thing saying that he ahd never recanted and doesn't know what Kranish was talking about. Of course the next step was to thwart off accusations of mistruths, which they did by getting the Globe to print a story saying that Kranish has nothing to do with the Kerry campaign and they stand by their story that Elliot recanted, despite Elliot saying he did not. When people called them on it, saying "Look at the Kerry website, it even says Kranish wrote the introduction, so obviously he has an interest in the Kerry campaign." Now the website no longer says such, as the Kerry campaign had to remove it in order to fir their lies and half-truths.

There's no way to know just how dishonest Kerry and friends are being. Maybe it's been limited to a few white lies, or maybe there's a lot more we'll never know about it. All I do know is that instead of covering up this sort of thing, which they have done several times, they ought to come out and confess to making a mistake. It would show more integrity, and even cause some people to gain some respect for them.

Another time that something disappeared off the Kerry website was ater the allegations that Joseph Wilson is a big, fat liar came out. Wilson was the guy at the heart of the yellowcake/Niger scandal. The Kerry party had embraced him, linked to his website, and brought him on as a "close advisor," but onc eit came out that he'd been outright lying in some cases, and stretching the truth to fit what he wanted to say in others, Kerry distanced himself. There are no more links to Wilson's website, and they are no longer saying he was a "close advisor." Instead he was just an associate or some such BS.

Kerry has also removed links to several far left web sites, I suppose fearing that people might actually discover what he's about. To this point no one really knows what Kerry is about, except that he served four whopping months in Vietnam, and he's not George Bush.