Posted on 05/17/2010 7:00:53 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
My guess is that Blumenthal was doing the usual “Vietnam ERA veteran” two-step.
He just forgot the Clintonian qualifier.
Lie about it, he did.
Blumenthal’s a Democrat. No lie would be disgusting enough to force him out.
Now, which GOP candidate would present the sharpest contrast to Blumenthal’s lies about military service? A hint: not the wrestling executive.
“Now, which GOP candidate would present the sharpest contrast to Blumenthal’s lies about military service?”
I think the answer is obvious, although that candidate’s voting record is less than ideal.
A hit piece by the NY Times on a Democrat?
I don’t think so.
I hope you are right, but then again, the race for Gov. has slim pickins as they say.
True, but, then again, at least he’s got a voting record, which he was able to get by beating a Democrat incumbent in a Democrat district in a terrible GOP year in CT. Plus, his voting record was probably the least liberal for a CT Congressman since, who, Franks? Rowland?
Who's "we"? Whoever it is, they did such a great job that Dodd was elected to the House three times, and to the Senate five times. He has held public office in Washington DC continuously since 1974. Good work hounding him out of office, Connecticut!
I’m right about him, but who knows if the R’s can get it together to beat him. He was Clinton’s HUD secretary and has major ties to subprime and the mortgage meltdown.
A little bit of trivia: guess who his undersecretary was. Give up? Kirsten Gillibrand.
They can run ads against both of them for the same thing at the same time. Cuomo will NOT have an easy time. Plus, the Dems are imploding and at war with each other in NY anyway.
I checked the tag line. Thanks. I didn’t know that.
Related thread:
Democrat Senate Candidate Blumenthal Lied About Vietnam Record
If this had come out too late for Blumenthal to drop out, Democrats would be in a much bigger bind.
He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal.
Blumenthal had a brief career as a newspaper reporter for The Washington Post. He was hired by Benjamin C. Bradlee, editor of the Post, and worked on the Metro desk.
In a Connecticut Supreme Court decision, Blumenthal v. Barnes (2002), a unanimous court determined that Blumenthal sued the owner of a charter school while lacking authority to bring the suit. Justice Peter T. Zarella concluded in the court’s opinion that the office of the attorney general is “a creature of statute that is governed by statute and, thus, has no common-law authority.”
In an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Blumenthal said that he had never accepted PAC money. Blumenthal accepted over $220,000 in PAC money for the first fiscal quarter of 2010, according to his FEC report. When challenged on the discrepency, his campaign released a statement explaining that he was referring only to previous campaigns.
Simmons is nowhere near a candidate for Free Republic sainthood but given his district, he voted with the GOP a majority of the time.
He’d do an able job as US Senator. I’ve sent him money and will again before his primary.
The deferments allowed Mr. Blumenthal to complete his studies at Harvard; pursue a graduate fellowship in England; serve as a special assistant to The Washington Post’s publisher, Katharine Graham; and ultimately take a job in the Nixon White House.
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In 2003, he addressed a rally in Bridgeport, where about 100 military families gathered to express support for American troops overseas. “When we returned, we saw nothing like this,” Mr. Blumenthal said. “Let us do better by this generation of men and women.”
“I served during the Vietnam era,” he said. “I remember the taunts, the insults, sometimes even physical abuse.”
On May 26, 2009, The Connecticut Post, a Bridgeport newspaper that is the state’s third-largest daily, described Mr. Blumenthal as “a Vietnam veteran.” The Shelton Weekly reported on May 23, 2008, that Mr. Blumenthal “was met with applause when he spoke about his experience as a Marine sergeant in Vietnam.”
And the idea that he served in Vietnam has become such an accepted part of his public biography that when a national outlet, Slate magazine, produced a profile of Mr. Blumenthal in 2000, it said he had “enlisted in the Marines rather than duck the Vietnam draft.”
“If this had come out too late for Blumenthal to drop out, Democrats would be in a much bigger bind.”
Well, there is that . . .
Another liar, so what’s the big deal?
In an interview, Jean Risley, the chairwoman of the Connecticut Vietnam Veterans Memorial Inc., recalled listening to an emotional Mr. Blumenthal offering remarks at the dedication of the memorial. She remembered him describing the indignities that he and other veterans faced when they returned from Vietnam.
“It was a sad moment,” she recalled. “He said, ‘When we came back, we were spat on; we couldn’t wear our uniforms.’ It looked like he was sad to me when he said it.”
Ms. Risley later telephoned the reporter to say she had checked into Mr. Blumenthal’s military background and learned that he had not, in fact, served in Vietnam.
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After graduating from Harvard in 1967, military records show, Mr. Blumenthal obtained another educational deferment and headed to Britain, where he filed stories for The Washington Post and attended Trinity College, Cambridge, on a graduate fellowship.
Mr. Blumenthal’s campaign manager, Mindy Myers, said Monday that any suggestion that he was ducking the war was unfounded, saying he was engaged in important work. When he worked for Ms. Graham, for example, he helped teach children in a public school in the Anacostia section of Washington, for a project she had started there.
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