I think the John Kerry medals story is very revealing about what kind of a person John Kerry is. CNN reports:

At issue is Kerry’s participation in a 1971 protest at which several veterans discarded their medals in protest of the Vietnam War.

Kerry threw away the ribbons from his medals, along with the actual medals of two veterans who were not able to attend the ceremony, according to the candidate’s Web site.

When he returned from the war, Kerry became an active opponent of the conflict and was a leader in Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

Karen Hughes, a campaign adviser to President Bush, described herself as “very troubled” by the fact that Kerry only throw away his ribbons — not the medals themselves.

“He only pretended to throw his,” she charged Sunday on CNN’s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.”

“Now, I can understand if out of conscience you take a principled stand and you would decide that you were so opposed to this that you would actually throw your medals. But to pretend to do so, I think that’s very revealing.”

Kerry is trying to draw a distinction between throwing away medals and ribbons, not only is there no real distiction, Charlie Gibson called Kerry a liar because as Gibson told Kerry:

GIBSON: Senator, I was there 33 years ago and I saw you throw medals over the fence and we didn’t find out until later -

KERRY: no, you didn’t see me throw th. Charlie, Charlie, you are wrong. that’s not what happened. I threw my ribbons across. all you have to do -

GIBSON: someone else’s medals, correct in?

KERRY: after — excuse me. excuse me, Charlie. after the ceremony was over, i had a bronze star and a purple heart given to me, one purple heart by a veteran in the V.A. in New York and the bronze star by an older veteran of World War II in Massachusetts. i threw them over because they asked me to. i never –

GIBSON: let me come back to the thing just said which is the military –

KERRY: this is a phony — Charlie, this is a phony controversy.

GIBSON: the military makes no distinction between ribbons and medals but you are the one who made the distinction. in 1984 –

KERRY: no . we made no distinction back then, Charlie. we made no distinction.

I don’t mind that John Kerry protested the Vietnam War. Good for him to stand up and believe in something. But now (and apparently then) he is a complete squish that doesn’t believe in anything other than getting elected.