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2004-09-03 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by GreatAmerica 2004-09-03 11:01:10 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Irrelevant even if true. The time for this was in 2000. Now people have 4 years of Presidential decisions to judge George W. Bush on.

As Mark Steyn said, they can produce pictures of Bush dancing naked on a bar and it won't change anything. Bush has admitted to being an idiot when young, before he got religion. Kerry on the other hand stands by his youthful claims.

Posted by RJ Schwarz 2004-09-03 1:37:53 PM|| [http://politicaljunky.blogspot.com] 2004-09-03 1:37:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Right... a "confidant", "never before published". In other words, no way to corrilate the information. If it was a senate job, people would have seen him there and this would have come out a loooooong time ago. Call me unconvinced..

Posted by mmurray821 2004-09-03 1:40:30 PM|| 2004-09-03 1:40:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 John Kerry could have been a Medal of Honor winner, and it still wouldn't matter. He betrayed America and his fellow veterans by making up stories about war atrocities to advance his political career.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-09-03 1:45:45 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2004-09-03 1:45:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Kerry and Edwards, both lawyers. You'd think they would know how indamissable "hearsay" evidence is.

Notice not even one "allegedly" (like they use with the SwiftVets staements)

The MSM swallows this without blinking, yet strains to report a verified lie (Cambodia) and verified facts (Testimony) tha damn Kerry.

I am getting so f**king tired of the partisanship and one sided treatment the MSM is handing out this campaign. If I were a violent man, I'd be tempted to start directly confronting the press with ANFO and a rental truck.

If there are no direct witnesses, this should be ignored - same as the Swift Vets - oops, those guys DO have direct eye witnesses! Yet they get peppered wiht partisanhip accusations and statements tagged with "supposed, allegedly", and have their character questioned. Ye this "I head this form a dead guy years ago" doesnt even rate a skeptical twitch from the MSM.

They are making crap up. This is an indicator of how low Kerry has stooped and how desperate the left has become, and how poorly the $th Estate is doing its job as a pillar of democracy - they've let us down and are going to be brought to justice one of these days.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-09-03 1:50:53 PM|| 2004-09-03 1:50:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 As a Vietnam-era veteran who saw the effect of John Kerry's VVAW antics on the morale of the people I served with, I'll take Bush any day over that worthless traitor. Screw him, and the entire Democratic Party.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-09-03 2:02:04 PM|| 2004-09-03 2:02:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Worthless hearsay. "My dead husband says the Bush family asked him for a favor. No, I don't care that my husband denied such a thing while he was still alive. No, I don't have to answer whether or not I was even married to him at the time. All I care about is getting the truth out. Now excuse me while I go to the bank to make a deposit. No, I don't have to answer where the check came from."

Useless "story". I understand Dan Rather is doing the "expose" on this. Now there's a quality non-partisan reporter.

It's over, Dummycraps. Give it a rest.

Posted by Chris W. 2004-09-03 2:04:27 PM|| 2004-09-03 2:04:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Dave D: As a Vietnam-era veteran who saw the effect of John Kerry's VVAW antics on the morale of the people I served with, I'll take Bush any day over that worthless traitor. Screw him, and the entire Democratic Party.

What does it say about the Democratic Party that it would pick a presidential candidate who slandered America and its Vietnam vets?

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-09-03 2:15:00 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2004-09-03 2:15:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 George W. Bushâs Missing Year

Non issue. Next?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-09-03 2:18:28 PM|| 2004-09-03 2:18:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 It is remarkable how clueless the left is. They are playing a stupid tit-for-tat game. (Believe me when I say they will agitate 24/7 for impeachment articles to be drafted when GWB wins another term.)

The picture they are trying to paint is of a feckless coward. The actual facts show just the opposite. Even before 9/11, Bush stood firm against the Communist Chinese after the Orion went down in early 2001. He has shown great resolve in dealing with worldwide Islamic terror (even if he can't speak its name, WE can).

In short... it is an utterly useless exercise--one that is easily countered with facts since he has taken office. It should have all the impact of a mosquito against a Kenworth's windshield.

Posted by eLarson 2004-09-03 2:49:21 PM|| 2004-09-03 2:49:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 ZF: One thing it says, is that it sure as hell ain't my father's Democratic Party anymore.

Posted by Dave D. 2004-09-03 2:52:38 PM|| 2004-09-03 2:52:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Even if it's true - so what? We know he was a wild kid.

What is it with the Clark crowd and dubious smear tactics, anyways? Wasn't it them who started that bogus rumor about that female intern and Kerry?

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-09-03 3:45:25 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-09-03 3:45:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Expect more of this. Susan Estrich has a really harsh column out today thta includes some wild insinuations: http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=ses

Here's the URL in case the link doesn't work: http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=ses

Posted by Tibor 2004-09-03 3:49:58 PM|| 2004-09-03 3:49:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Wow. What a hissyfit. She is aware that the electorate knows that Bush is a recovering alcoholic, right? In 2000, that sort of thing had a lot to do with my reluctant vote for Gore, who I disliked intensely, but seemed tested and stable. Three years of the most intense pressure has relieved me of that particular character worry on Bush's account. He isn't a relapser, or a latter-day Nixonian drunkard-king.

That's a wet squib, Susan. Don't waste your matches.

Posted by Mitch H. 2004-09-03 7:14:33 PM|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2004-09-03 7:14:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Wait one damn min! Am I under a mis-understanding here? Did I live in another reality? The way I remember it - most of the 70s were a party decade!
If somebody wasn't partying the 70s away they were not part of the society! Ergo .. totally square.. But Kerry says he was hip?

Help me out here.... my head is spinning too fast.

Posted by 3dc 2004-09-03 7:30:41 PM|| 2004-09-03 7:30:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 1970's Party Decade

Kerry - Smoke grass, Bell bottoms, Poster of HoChiMinh.

Bush - Lone Star Beer, Cowboy Hat, Poster of Johnny Unitas.

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-03 7:39:54 PM|| 2004-09-03 7:39:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Interesting article in yesterday's Am. Spectator "Prowler" column. Apparently Dan Rather/60 Minutes broke the "story" that former Speaker of the TX House of Reps. Ben Barnes is telling how he pulled strings to get young GW into the TX National Guard. Only problem is, for years Mr. Barnes adamantly denied that any Bush relatives asked him to do this, rather that the request had come from a now-deceased family friend, and even made a formal court deposition to that effect.

But now Mr. Barnes is a major fundraiser for the Kerry campaign, and has made a videtape contradicting his previous, oft-repeated statements.

Methinks the Allison story is much of a piece with Barnes's.

Its not fair! I really, really wanted to have two viable candidates to choose from! /end whine

P.S. for some reason I can't get the link thingy to work right, but the underlying Spectator address is correct.

Posted by trailing wife 2004-09-03 10:45:22 PM|| 2004-09-03 10:45:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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