McAuliffe in Spitting Match Over Bush-Clinton Draft Records

NewsMax.com/WABC Radio ^ | May 7, 2003 | Carl Limbacher

[Carl/NewsMax]

Tuesday morning started off with a bang for Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe - when he attacked president Bush for serving in the Texas Air National Guard, then found himself on the defensive over the draft record of his friend and political ally Bill Clinton.

The fireworks started when McAuliffe told WABC Radio's Curtis Sliwa and Ron Kuby that Bush's Iraq war victory announcement from the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln last week gave new legitimacy to questions about Bush's military service.

MCAULIFFE: He's got to stop doing photo ops. All he does is photo ops. You know what happened in April? There were 400,000 people who watched George Bush land live on that aircraft carrier. They wished they'd seen it on the evening news. But you know what? They lost their jobs in the month of April.

SLIWA: Wait a second. No, no. Let's go back to that issue. Are you suggesting that the president should not have been on that aircraft carrier, should not have been meeting the naval personnel that fought so valiantly and should not have been addressing the nation and the world from that aircraft carrier?

MCAULIFFE: I though it was a blatant photo op. He can meet the troops any time he wants. But to get off that plane and run around in his jump suit - I, politically, thought it was not smart for him because it opens up all those issues again of how he never fought in a war....

SLIWA: Where are the complaints coming from....

MCAULIFFE: .... how he was in the National Guard in Alabama and was MIA for a year.....

SLIWA: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a second, wait a second. He did National Guard service. Where was your guy, Bill Clinton - a draft dodger who went and protested against America in Moscow?

KUBY: John Kerry I think was a Navy combat veteran....

SLIWA: We're talking about Bill Clinton. Terry McAuliffe and Bill Clinton are gombarahcheeches. How do you answer that?

KUBY: Clinton isn't running.

MCAULIFFE: First of all, George Bush ran against Al Gore who did, gentlemen, serve in Vietnam, was over in Vietnam. You know, at some point you've got to move on from Bill Clinton. In 2004, we will not have Bill Clinton on the ballot. We won't have Al Gore. We'll have someone new on the ballot. George Bush will be on the ballot. He opened it up, walking around with his flight suit. He was MIA in Alabama. His father [unintelligible] out of trouble.

SLIWA: You are so vile. You are so vile.

KUBY: Boys, boys. We have to move on. Terry McAuliffe, thank you so much for being with us.

MCAULIFFE: Let's do this every day.

KUBY: We'd really like you to come back and I hope you have a better day in New York for the rest of the day than you did here.

MCAULIFFE: People really got their coffee going now.

KUBY: Okay. It's 7:33, with the hillbillies and thugs in Arkansas who hijacked the New York State Democratic Party. [End of Excerpt.]

[MattGarrett]

I LOVE IT. They keep screaming about such pointless issues and America is guaranteed 4 more years of "W"! And better control of the Senate to boot!

[Frank_Discussion]

"You're so Vile, I bet you think this thread is about you..."

[Frank_Discussion]

Re: my post - I'm meaning TerryMac, not you Carl!

[Carl/NewsMax]

The final comment:

KUBY: Okay. It's 7:33, with the hillbillies and thugs in Arkansas who hijacked the New York State Democratic Party.

Was delivered by Curtis Sliwa, not Ron Kuby. Error has been corrected in NewsMax report.

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/723210/posts

Liars-- and Sleaze, Incorporated... ( my files on the clintons and friends )

various links | 7-27-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[ken5050]

Can't you dig out the statistics about the injury and fatality rate among pilot cadets. I read it somewhere....it is even higher than during actual combat operations.....

[fml]

--MCAULIFFE: I though it was a blatant photo op. He can meet the troops any time he wants. --
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Apparently not.

[Bahbah]

I relly like Curtis Sliwa.

[McGruff]

I enjoy your reports on the morning talk shows, but how do you guys monitor IMUS and Curtis and Commie at the same time.

Keep up the good work.

[doug from upland]

This is funny. It is a total non-issue and Bush has proven to be a great commander in chief. Clinton loathed the military and proved it every day he was in office.

[Howlin]

The Real Military Record of George W. Bush: Not Heroic, but Not AWOL, Either

Check the source of this article; it's NOT a conservative magazine.

[mom-7]

GW is brilliant. He has the demonrats salivating. They could not have thought of a "photo-op" like this in a million years. God Bless our President.

[kellynla]

Thank you Curtis Sliwa. Truth be known, Bill Clinton was a THREE TIME DRAFT DODGER. And as for Al Gore, he was a Remington Raider in Nam who had a body guard and only served 6 months before his daddy, Senator Gore D-TN, got him rotated out of there.

[Howlin]

Frontline: Bill Clinton's Draft Letter

[chiefqc]

MCAULIFFE - Who opened the grate to the sewer where he lives?

[Swampmarine]

That's FLIGHT suit. Terry, not jump suit. FLIGHT suit. The democrats are doing the President a favor by keeping this alive. One of GW's finest moments.

[areafiftyone]

blatant photo op

Photo ops! HMMMMM!!! What's a photo op????

[Howlin]

Clinton's Draft Avoidance

[Eric in the Ozarks]

A better, more fair comparison would be Bush and Algore. W has an MBA. Algore is a divinity school flunk out. W flew F-102s in the airguard. Algore was in VN for a few weeks as a reporter for the Stars and Stripes. Bush realized his personal faults, cleaned up his act and was a successful governor of Texas. Al couldn't carry Tennesee, his home state (where no one could remember his living there).