"Character counts!!!!"

[Bluebear]

Memo, schmemo. You don't show up for a physical and you are grounded as a pilot.... makes you kind of useless in an Air National guard position during wartime, no?
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WASHINGTON - Democrats yesterday seized upon new documents about President George W. Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard service to accuse Bush of shirking his duty and then deceiving the public about it.

At a news conference, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said the material proved Bush received preferential treatment to get into the Guard and got it again when he failed to fulfill his service obligations.

Harkin defended the party's decision to make an issue of 30-year-old events, saying Bush himself had made it relevant to this year's campaign by repeatedly lying, as recently as earlier this year, when asked whether he had fulfilled his Guard duties.

"Character counts, especially in a president," Harkin said. "We want a president who will be honest and truthful with the American people. If the president will lie about this, will he lie about how we got into Iraq, for example?"

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usbush103961660sep10,0,4719879.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. And you give this legs

by going on to tell how Bush has LIED to America ever since he has been in office-
said he'd restore veteran's health benefits-has slashed them instead
said he'd give funding for AIDS-didn't happen
said he was for No Child Left Behind-no funding
said he was for helping with Medicare-raised costs to seniors by 17%
said Saddam was responsible for 9/11-not true
said he'd been a bold leader on 9/11-watch My Pet Goat footage
said we had to invade Iraq for various reasons-all disproven

These are just off the top of my head. I'm sure others can think of lots more.

[Bluebear]

2. Perzactly.

[dennis4868]

3. "will he lie about how we got into Iraq?"

ummmmm...Senator? I think he already lied about that one...you know the WMD and Saddam/911/al qaeda connection lies? Hello?

[Bluebear]

4. I think that question was directed in retrospect nt

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. Which is why AWOL counts

we have got to rake Bush over the coals with this every chance we get.
Let it ride!

[demvoterforlife]

6. I could not agree more.

The focus from now until election day should be on Bush's character flaws and lack of credibility to lead this nation.

[cheshire]

7. It just shows him to be a little chicken shit punk bitch.