I have no doubt I'll get flamed, but it has to be said.

[Archae]

We've been laughing at and jumping on the cons for taking what is a clerical error on Kerry's DD-214, and saying it's a forgery.

Well, I looked at the old Bush campaign flyer over and over, and I don't see it as a lie, when it says Bush was in the Air Force and Guard.

It looks more to me like simply someone goofed.
Maybe just the guy who typed out the campaign flyer, maybe Bush himself, it's obvious how easily confused he gets.

So this screaming "It's a Bush lie! It's a Bush lie!" makes DU look hypocritical.

[geek tragedy]

1. That's not a typo

That's a lie.

A lie that Bush defended in 1999.

[shrub chipper]

Actually, isn't the bigger lie when it states

that he became an 'independent' businessman and an oil and gas 'producer'.

He was NEVER either of those things.

[geek tragedy]

24. He was "independent"--

he was independent from any sense of responsibility or accountability.

[Warpy]

27. He's a typical worthless punk who padded his resume

That's what this is, and I think there are a lot of people out there who realize it, especially since there are so many out there who padded their own resumes. That's why this one's a tempest in a teapot.

However, his shirking of his Guard responsibilities goes right to the heart of this man's character, and it's not good. The lack of consequences is an indictment of a corrupt system, and demonstrates for once and for all that the whole system is rigged against honest working people in favor of dishonest rich punks.

Let go of the padded resume. Keep hammering this man on his deception regarding his character. He ran on impeccable character. He can be defeated by exposing it.

[truthspeaker]

2. Sure, and the aluminum tubes for nuke production was an editing mistake

One error is a typo. A thousand of them is a pattern of deception.

[mimitabby]

3. the difference

a typo is an inadvertent mistake. You can't BY MISTAKE type "US Airforce"
That is a deliberate act.
Or simply stated, A LIE

[demokatgurrl]

4. and even if you give him a pass on that LIE

there's plenty more.

[Archae]

11. I didn't say it was a typo

I said it was a mistake.

Remember, this campaign flyer was from the time when Bush was sloshed most of the time.
So the person who typed it out heard Drinky Bunnypants slurring about his time in the service, and typed out what he could best understand.

We still need to nail the SOB on the memos, showing how Bunnypants got preferential treatment in the TANG.

This flyer looks like a simple mistake.

[Gman]

23. It was no mistake

when you've been in the Guard, you don't claim you've been in the regular military. They are not one and the same and Bush knows it. Karen Hughes' weak explanation of the claim, disputed as flat wrong by many, is even more evidence that they knew it was a lie and printed it anyway.

[bryant69]

5. At least you know you'll get flamed

But personally i think this does look a little petty, myself.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[trotsky]

10. And it plays into Rove's hands.

Keep the discussion AWAY from the issues.

[bryant69]

14. Exactly right

How does this help us convince American's to vote for us? Convince them we have a better program?

[blue neen]

6. People who work on his campaigns do things purposefully.

No one was confused when they put this on his flyer.

[ET Awful]

7. What about the fact that it says he served AFTER going to Harvard

which conveniently evades the issue of him getting out of the military under special circumstances.

[RandomKoolzip]

8. That's not a typo.

Nowe thesde arde typois.

[Claire Beth]

9. No typing error....

he never denied and had stated about being in the Air Force as if it was the same as Nat'l Guard. That's no typing error on the flyer. Dipwad is just a liar.

[EnfantTerrible]

12. Considering the propaganda that chim

has employed thus far I allow him no margin for errors of this kind. This is one of the most effective tactics of the propagandist... Float false information that gets into the subconscious of the public and then write it off as a mistake while capitalizing on the false impression it's made.

Never trust a Fascist to make clerical errors where gaining power is conscerned

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

13. I thought I was the only one who figured this out.

Even if it is a lie, this is hardly a big weapon to use against Team Bush. This boils down to nothing more than a misstep on a campaign flyer, and I just hope the Freepers aren't laughing at us. Simply put, this is small stuff, a drop in the bucket at best.

[gratuitous]

15. Then why was Bush still saying it in 1999?

His book "A Charge to Keep" repeats the error that he was "in the Air Force" for over 600 days. How many times and over what period of time does a man have to make the same error, and let it stand uncorrected, for it to pass over into the realm of a lie?

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

19. I think the flyer by itself is ineffective,

but maybe someonr should do an ad in which this flyer is linked to the reference in his book, and then close it out with his "pretending to be a fighter pilot" theatrics, on the deck of the U.S.S Abraham Lincoln.

[gratuitous]

22. Which is why I cited Shrubbie's autobiography

It's one thing to have a "typo" in campaign literature from the late 1970s -- a typo that, just coincidentally, leaves voters with a far more favorable impression of the candidate -- but quite another to write your political autobiography 20 years later, and include the exact same typo.

I think that is evidence enough that it's not a typo, it's a lie designed to make the candidate look better.

[henslee]

16. Big flame. Consider the pattern and # of lies (in this case re:mil.)...

And its very important. And worrying about WHETHER OR NOT DU LOOKS HYPOCRITICAL is ridiculous. This post reminds of the NOW LETS NOT BASH THE BUSH TWINS post.

[Jim Sagle]

17. Chickenshit bullshit.

[bowens43]

18. It's a lie and it's not the only time he said it.

[bushwakker]

20. The fact that he put both TANG and AF on there tells me

they thought quite a bit about it. I could see if they had just put AF thinking that TANG was technically AF. But they put both indicating they knew there was a difference.

[stellanoir]

not to split hairs or anything, but. . .

There are two other glaring misnomers in that flyer. It says that * attended public schools when in truth he went to an Ivy league prep school (either Andover or St. Paul's-I forget which one) in New England. Also it describes him as a "producer" of Gas & Oil. Excluding the hot air out of his mouth, the earth produces those resources, but use of that word suggests that he was successful in those businesses which couldn't be further from the truth.

on edit- It also says he "became an independent businessman", when he was completely beholden to his father's cronies and the Saudi's.

[drdigi420]

26. 'twas Andover, and he was a cheerleader there

Spread the word: bush is a WIMP!

I have t-shirts and bumperstickers that say so available at http://www.cafepress.com/docpolitic

[Cocoa]

21. it was a lie

pretty plain to see.

[ArkDem]

25. This is obviously just another of the millions of things the BFEE

has done in it's quest for world domination. We can't keep letting them get away with it.