Replies

Oh now the story is Barnes got GWB into the guard when he was Speaker of the House in Texas.

Barnes, a longtime Democrat who works as a lobbyist and political consultant in Austin, has said that he is now "very ashamed" of helping "a lot of people who had family names of importance get in the National Guard." He made the statement during a meeting with John F. Kerry supporters in Austin on May 27, a video of which is now circulating on the Internet.

At the time, Barnes was speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and in close touch with the head of the Texas Air National Guard, Brig. Gen. James Rose.

But when he spoke to a Kerry supporters gathering on video tape Mr. Barnes tells us he was the Lt. Governor of Texas at the time he pulled strings to get GWB into the "Champagne Unit" of the Texas National Guard. Which is impossible since he wasn't elected Lt. Gov. until 1969 and GWB enlisted in 1968.

I wonder which lie they would like us to believe?