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Houston Attorney John O'Neill may have dumped Democratic presumptive candidate John F. Kerry's chances to be president into the trash heap of failed wannabes.
O'Neill, who while serving in Vietnam later commanded the same swift boat as Kerry, recently appeared on the very liberal CNN to be interviewed by the very liberal Wolf Blitzer.
O'Neill, back then a Democrat who voted for Hubert Humphrey, debated Kerry on the Dick Cavett show in 1971. That was when Kerry was making wild charges about American soldiers committing atrocities. He cleaned Kerry's clock then, because Kerry could not substantiate any of the lies he was telling. Other news agencies have tried to interview O'Neill since then, but he has always refused.
When Blitzer pointed out that Kerry had the support of some very vocal veterans, O'Neill answered, "what you've got is the same seven or eight people recycled over and over again. I think you'll find when you match numbers out of Coastal Division 11, the people that knew him, the people that came from the unit like I did, I think you'll find that he'll get less votes than a Republican would get in South Boston."
O'Neill said, "I think you'll find people are very, very angry at John Kerry. They remember his career in Vietnam as a short, controversial one. And they believe only Hollywood could turn this guy into a war hero. I saw some war heroes, Wolf. John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11."