Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry said on Friday that it was time for the press to stop focusing on the photo showing him protesting the Vietnam War with anti-American actress "Hanoi" Jane Fonda, saying it was time to "move on."
"If people want to go back and find a photograph of her years ago, that's fine by me," Kerry told radio host Don Imus, referring to the image published by NewsMax on Monday showing Kerry and Fonda at the same 1970 anti-war protest
"You know, we just move on. You know, we're 30 years beyond that and I think people are interested in the future," the top Democrat insisted.
"I disagreed, like everyone else in America, with the choice she made at that point in time. I thought it was terrible," he explained, referring to Fonda's decision to side with the enemy in 1972.
The Massachusetts Democrat said that his decision to march against the Vietnam War while the soldiers he fought with were still trying to win it showed character on his part.
"To whatever degree my standing up then was a measurement of character, and I think it was - I mean, look, I didn't love coming back from the war I fought in and having to tell people, this is wrong, this is screwed up. But it was."
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