Dole just lied his ASS off with Leslie

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he just said that nobody wrote any stories about his great war record in WWII!!!!


there's a thread here which details just how MUCH an issue he made of it, including a RECREATION of his injury during his bio film at the convention

he's a SHAMELESS liar

here, from other thread, thanks to shocking elk:

Every day of his 1996 presidential campaign, Bob Dole wore a Purple Heart lapel pin as a symbol of his devotion to his country. Dole received a debilitating wound during WW II and his campaign touted that wound, and there's nothing wrong with that. His campaign prominently featured his war wounds:


Dole's official campaign video, "Bob Dole: An American Hero," features an "America's Most Wanted"-style recreation of the battlefield scene, with shaky, slow-motion footage of a rifle and an empty helmet rolling on the ground. His convalescence is conveyed with shots of a man from the knees down, shuffling forward.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x656854

I know there's a thread on his appearance with Leslie, but this gargantuan lie deserves highlighting on its own

I'm stunned that he had the effrontery to say something like that.

Is he THAT far along into senile dementia, or just the same lying thug that he's always been?

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1. Remember why Dole lost to Pappy Bush in the primaries

It's because he's mean. He's a mean, hostile man with a nasty mouth.

And Elizabeth Dole ran an underhanded campaign with push polls in NC to become senator - after not having lived in the state for decades.

Both the Doles like to pretend that they are nice ordinary people but the truth is that they are Republican attack dogs.

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2. and........one of his most famous quotes in the 88 primary was

STOP lying about my record, George!

guess that doesn't apply to him re: lying about his OWN record, much less Kerry's

he really is the lowest of the low

one of my favorite books is Senator for Sale, about his unbelievably sleazy record

this is a good site for a 'brief' summary of just HOW corrupt he is.

tip of the iceberg, btw:


Money Laundering of Illegal Campaign Contributions

For decades, Bob Dole's campaigns have consistently been caught blatantly laundering campaign contributions, usually by having a corporation reimburse employees and their family members for their donations. Dole always denies personal involvement, but no other candidate has such a steady history of this, and no other candidate raises more money from corporations, by hook or by crook, than Bob Dole. Examples include Aqua-Leisure Industries and Empire Sanitary Landfill this year; several campaign violations in 1988 including contribution laundering at Birdview Satellite Communications, a 20 year old investigation of illegal donations to Dole by Gulf Oil company which fizzled after key evidence disappeared, and even 25 year old scandals involving illegal donations to the Nixon Administration by milk producers and a branch of International Telephone and Telegraph. Dole was chairman of the Republican National Committee, which received both donations, and was directly implicated in both deals. Bob has managed to avoid indictment or even a consensus among reporters that he did anything illegal, through all of these scandals, but you don't need heavy pattern recognition skills figure out how he does business.

The latest case involves Aqua-Leisure Industries, a sporting goods company whose chairman (Simon Fireman) is also the Dole campaign's national vice-chairman of finance. Fireman just plead guilty to laundering contributions to Dole by handing out envelopes with $1000 in cash to employees, so they could make contributions beyond what Fireman was allowed to give. He was fined $1 million, his company was fined $5 million, and he got 6 months of house arrest in lieu of jail time because he cooperated with authorities. We don't have room to share all of the gory details, but the Kansas City Star's excellent investigative series absolutely nails this illegal scheme. Check their articles out

At least three of the 40 employees or relatives who contributed say that the company's executive assistant handed some workers stacks of $100 bills so they could return with checks made out to "Dole For President." The workers' bank statements show cash deposits equal to their donations, on the same day. 14 of the 35 employees gave $1000 or $2000. $1000 donations were received even from low paid employees such as a secretary, a bookkeeper, and a warehouse foreman. 5 of the donators even said they were Democrats or favored Clinton over Dole.

This is NOT an isolated incident. Last year, 50 donations of $1000 each came from workers and families of Empire Sanitary Landfill, a Pennsylvania company whose principal owners are under indictment for tax fraud. All 50 donations were made the same day -- May 3, 1995 -- a week before Dole brought a bill to the Senate floor that preserved the company's ability to import trash from other states. (The bill passed the Senate overwhelmingly but failed in the House.) Unlike Aqua Leisure, none of the employees interviewed has admitted that they were reimbursed, but low- level employees including a secretary, a cook, an account clerk and a purchaser all gave $1,000
http://www.realchange.org/bdole.htm

bookmark the above site, if you're trying to lose weight, via the bulimia route

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8. Ever read "Downsize This!" by Michael Moore?

He's got a whole chapter where he Photoshops various things into Bob Dole's right hand-- things which are more "appropriate", given his way with campaign donations. For example, because he's been a ruthless shill for the Gallo family in CA, they put a wine bottle into that right hand. And, because he shamelessly shills for the NRA, they also put an Uzi in his hand.

There's many more in the chapter, but it's a pretty good overview of where Bob Dole got his campaign $$ from, and the favors he did to get it.

BTW, don't forget that Dole was a one-time protegee of Richard M. Nixon, the KING of campaign finance scandalmaking.

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9. nuh uh.....I have dude, and stupid, but not that one

will check it out

thanks

I REALLY loathe Dole, and have since 76

didn't think he could get any worse, til he savaged Lawrence Walsh, and LIED his ass off about that, too

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3. Stunned at how brazen a liar Dole is?

:shrug:

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7. not at all, just that he ignored the CENTERPIECE of his own

campaign in 96

that takes a huge amount of chutzpah

[FrenchieCat]

4. Here's a bit of info....

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/ :
Bob Dole suggested that one or more of John Kerry's Purple Hearts may have been fraudulent in some way because they were for "superficial wounds."

Dole knows better.

In a 1988 campaign-trail autobiography, here's how Dole described the incident that earned him his first Purple Heart: "As we approached the enemy, there was a brief exchange of gunfire. I took a grenade in hand, pulled the pin, and tossed it in the direction of the farmhouse. It wasn't a very good pitch (remember, I was used to catching passes, not throwing them). In the darkness, the grenade must have struck a tree and bounced off. It exploded nearby, sending a sliver of metal into my leg--the sort of injury the Army patched up with Mercurochrome and a Purple Heart."

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5. that f***** prick Leslie is playing the newest ad again!

but he is saying the ad doensn't mention that Kerry's testimony was based on what OTHERS told him, not his own

He just played a clip of Dole, saying JK owes vets apology

nothing about the LIES Dole told, though

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6. Bob Kerrey up now

"organized effort to smear Kerry"

"he didn't bleed enough? he wasn't hospitalized?"

he's PISSED!

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10. Did Bob ever get that pen out of his hand?

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11. ...no one in the fucking media challenges these cretins....Jeeeez

the media is just like w*. they are not curious.