Kerry Boasted to Vietnam Crewmates: I'll Be President

One of Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam Swift Boat mates said this week that the Massachusetts Democrat boasted during the war that one day he'd be president.

When his crewmates would get together and discuss their futures, Kerry Swift Boat mate Larry Thurlow recalled on Monday, "He would look people in the eye [and say], 'I'm gonna be the president of the United States.'"

Thurlow offered the revelation to radio host Sean Hannity, who pressed him on the circumstances of the Kerry boast.

"He said that to a very good friend of mine in the ward room who repeated it directly to me," Thurlow recalled. "And I know for a fact that it's true. He had said this to other people as well."

Thurlow is one of 11 of Kerry's crewmates who have complained that his campaign is using a photo of them implying they support his presidential bid, when six members of the group have publicly condemned Kerry as unfit to be commander in chief.

Calling themselves Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group issued an open letter last week calling on Kerry to stop the unauthorized use of their image in national campaign advertising.

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