Be careful what you ask for, W . . . Here it comes . . .

[mbali]

Care to rethink your strategy, Karl? Acchh! Too late! Here comes the backlash.

George W. Bush's Missing Year

Before there was Karl Rove, Lee Atwater or even James Baker, the Bush family's political guru was a gregarious newspaper owner and campaign consultant from Midland, Texas, named Jimmy Allison. In the spring of 1972, George H.W. Bush phoned his friend and asked a favor: Could Allison find a place on the Senate campaign he was managing in Alabama for his troublesome eldest son, the 25-year-old George W. Bush?

"The impression I had was that Georgie was raising a lot of hell in Houston, getting in trouble and embarrassing the family, and they just really wanted to get him out of Houston and under Jimmy's wing," Allison's widow, Linda, told me. "And Jimmy said, 'Sure.' He was so loyal."

Linda Allison's story, never before published, contradicts the Bush campaign's assertion that George W. Bush transferred from the Texas Air National Guard to the Alabama National Guard in 1972 because he received an irresistible offer to gain high-level experience on the campaign of Bush family friend Winton "Red" Blount. In fact, according to what Allison says her late husband told her, the younger Bush had become a political liability for his father, who was then the United States ambassador to the United Nations, and the family wanted him out of Texas. "I think they wanted someone they trusted to keep an eye on him," Linda Allison said
. . .

Allison's account corroborates a Washington Post investigation in February that found no credible witnesses to the service in the Alabama National Guard that Bush maintains he performed, despite a lack of documentary evidence. Asked if she'd ever seen Bush in a uniform, Allison said: "Good Lord, no. I had no idea that the National Guard was involved in his life in any way."

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/02/allison/index.html

Better duck, guys - they're coming at you!!!

[BootinUp]

1. PAYDIRT!

Oh this is almost too good to be true. Finally, the story leaks out!

:bounce:

[madmax]

2. You HAVE to see the pic of Bab's at this site

She looks like Robin Williams Gay lover in Birdcage!!! Hysterical!

edit: Correct movie title :silly:

[gollygee]

6. Nathan Lane in drag?

yeah, I can see that.

[madmax]

10. Yes, yes... Nathan Lane.

Thank you!

[Hobarticus]

12. Interesting...she's only gotten more mannish as time passed.

[devinsgram]

11. OMG you are so right.

I had to look twice, because she's a dead ringer for Nathan Lane in the "Birdcage." What a hoot!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

16. And George H.W. has that high wimpy voice and girlish manner

You kind of wonder if each of Georgie's parents might not have had a sex change somewhere in their past, whereby Stormtrooper Mama is really the one who got Poppy pregnant.

[dogman]

30. That's not Babs or Nathan.

That's George Tenet. Now we know how close he was to the Bush family.

[lancdem]

3. So THIS is what atrios was referring to

[ramapo]

4. Linda better watch her back

Sounds like a positively delicious story...

Will we be seeing it featured on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and the Sunday talk shows for the next three weeks?

[annxburns]

8. I wish. They will never do this on their own

We need to DEMAND they run this after all the swift vet lies.

[Pale_Rider]

5. And then Barnes on 60 minutes ...

... when it rains it pours.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/01/barnes60minutes/index_np.html

:evilgrin:

[eleny]

7. Holy cow!

Nothing like seeing truths come to light!

[mzmolly]

9. This is the kind of stuff we need to send out to major media ...

It helps it's during the convention! :toast:

[madmax]

14. It's time for Media Blaster

Great timing with '60 Minutes'. He got preferential treatment and then couldn't even full fill his duty. What a clown!

[BootinUp]

25. I just sent an e-mail to 25 local

journalists in Georgia. BLAM! love that blaster.

[MasonJar]

13. I will call CBS and ABC; let's get to work demanding that this be

told. CBS is the best of the bunch.

[LunaC]

15. Karma's a bitch, ain't it Georgie? n/t

[Shadder]

17. My favorite part...so far

The break happened not long after a boozy election-night wake for Blount, who lost his Senate bid to the incumbent Democrat, John Sparkman. Leaving the election-night "celebration," Allison remembers encountering George W. Bush in the parking lot, urinating on a car, and hearing later about how he'd yelled obscenities at police officers that night. Bush left a house he'd rented in Montgomery trashed -- the furniture broken, walls damaged and a chandelier destroyed, the Birmingham News reported in February. "He was just a rich kid who had no respect for other people's possessions," Mary Smith, a member of the family who rented the house, told the newspaper, adding that a bill sent to Bush for repairs was never paid. And a month later, in December, during a visit to his parents' home in Washington, Bush drunkenly challenged his father to go "mano a mano," as has often been reported.

[Jim__]

19. I wonder if the idiot has any idea what "mano a mano" means - n/t

[KittyWampus]

27. Here Is The Birminghan News Website-

they would have archives maybe with info in it about George?

www.bhamnews.com/

[BootinUp]

18. I nominated this thread

for the front page :thumbsup:

[mbali]

Who knew this was just practice?

"Bush left a house he'd rented in Montgomery trashed -- the furniture broken, walls damaged and a chandelier destroyed, the Birmingham News reported in February. "He was just a rich kid who had no respect for other people's possessions," Mary Smith, a member of the family who rented the house, told the newspaper, adding that a bill sent to Bush for repairs was never paid."

Sounds like what he's done to Iraq, the economy and everything else he's touched since he was appointed president.

[Jim__]

20. If the mainstream media would report half the stuff that's known about

this asshole - he wouldn't stand a chance. Let's see if they pick up on this.

[mbali]

21. Delete - posted twice

[SayitAintSo]

22. WOW ... really tells you a lot about the character of these people

Or lack thereof....The meanness....

[Rosco T.]

23. Hmmmmm,,,, this is a job for (heroic music) OLBERMANN!!!!

send this to Keith.. I am...

[greenbriar]

24. KICK IT

good

[lunarboy13]

26. Excellent post...

Great article! I think Bush's campaign is going to turn another corner...

:evilgrin:

[tandot]

28. and he thought he could smear a Vietnam Veteran and keep his embarrassing

past secret. And all those freeper idiots believed every single lie that was sold to them. Poor idiots.

Poor Georgie boy...even his own daddy was embarrassed and wanted to get rid of him...

It will all come together. It is amazing that this is the guy that freepers love while the despise someone who was willing to give his life for his country.

Hey Freepers, get back on your meds...you will really need them :evilgrin:

[Gin]

29. no wonder shrub's wife didn't say much about him as a man...or a person...

he still has no respect for anything or anyone. Disgusting pig.