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Sunday, August 22, 2004

Powers of discernment

As a public service, this blog is offering a counterpoint to its “Swift Boat Vets and Bay City Rollers” post (immediately below).  The following is a reply on behalf of Swift Boat Believers with Perfectly Good Judgment About Such Things.

We appreciate the opportunity to provide a countervailing point of view on this wild-eyed far-left blog.  For it appears that John Kerry is, at the very least, a serial exaggerator.  All credible sources now agree that he could not possibly have been in Cambodia in December 1968, and that he was in fact there in January and February of 1969 instead.  Clearly, he is unfit to lead.

In other news, there has been a terrific breakthrough for the Bush team.  Documentary evidence now proves that George Bush actually served in the United States Air Force, just as he claimed in 1978 and again in 1999.

From the Houston Chronicle, July 14, 1999:

FORT WORTH - In literature for his failed 1978 congressional campaign, George W. Bush said he served in the Air Force, a claim his presidential campaign says is legitimate based on time he spent training and on alert while a member of the Texas Air National Guard.

Asked Tuesday at an appearance in New Jersey whether he was justified in claiming Air Force service, Bush replied: “I think so, yes. I was in the Air Force for over 600 days.”

But the Air Force says once a guardsman always a guardsman, even if called to active duty for training or another temporary assignment.

The Republican presidential front-runner already has faced questions about whether he received preferential treatment when he joined the Guard during the Vietnam War. His father, former President Bush, was a congressman at the time.

A pullout ad from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal on May 4, 1978, shows a huge picture of Bush with a “Bush for Congress” logo on the front. On the back, a synopsis of his career says he served “in the U.S. Air Force and the Texas Air National Guard where he piloted the F-102 aircraft.”

Many thanks to a blogger named Digby for providing this final nail in Kerry’s coffin.  Even the liberal media will now be forced to agree that Kerry’s credibility is a serious problem, and that these men, speaking on Kerry’s behalf, should be ashamed of themselves.

We now return you to the lunatic rantings of some Stalinist college professor with a weird French name.

Posted by Michael on 08/22 at 10:02 AM
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