Reply #6: NO, here's the "key point":...

[T Town Jake]

...notwithstanding all of this "forgery/not-a-forgery" nonsense: the real bottom line is that John Kerry volunteered to serve in Vietnam and put himself in harm's way, while his opponent whiled away the lazy days in Texas playing Occasional Weekend Fighter Pilot.
...That is the truthful line that should be the constantly-repeated currency of the Kerry campaign. All this dibbling around about some disputed paperwork from 1972 among Democrats is simply nothing more than Karl Rove's throbbing wet-dream - and so far, sadly, many "so-called Democrats" (to coin a phrase) seem to be playing.