Swift Boat Controversy detracts from healthy political debate Posted on Sunday, August 22, 2004 With all the talk of the SBVT and their ads against John Kerry, one has to feel that the real issues of the election are getting shoved aside! Both candidates have issues far back in the past that we could bring up again and again, but that's not going to help inform America who would be the better president. John Kerry may not have served honorably in and after Vietnam and George Bush may have gone AWOL on national guard duty, and to this day he still won't deny the he used cocaine and drunk heavily when he was younger. But all that's really beside the point. The issues facing us today are Iraq, terrorism, jobs, the economy, health care, and many others not what the candidates may or may not have been doing over 30 years ago. The more time that gets spent on that the more time we lose on considering the legitimate issues of the election. The candidates and 527s need to stop digging up the past and start looking to the future, so we can figure out how to make America better. Please share your own thoughs and feel free to agree or disagree.