[DoughtyOne]

If Bush had received a dishonorable discharge, it would have been germane during his first run for governor, or even the presidency.  To raise that issue now, while he's a sitting president headed into a run for his second term, is nonsense.  The man is functioning as an effective chief executive.  It's a little late to state that his records from thirty years ago should preclude him from holding office.

The real hoot about all this is that the very people who are going after Bush with a vengeance are those who gave Bill Clinton a pass for dodging the draft completely.  Not only did he dodge the draft, he burned our flag in the streets of Europe, and traveled in very high circles through the eastern block into Soviet Russia at a time when almost nobody could.  This and a myriad of other disqualifiers were overlooked by these folks as if they meant nothing.  Neither did direct payments from the top generals of China, specifically the daughter of the general who was in charge of the Tianimen Sqare (sp?) massacre.

Now these folks loft the Kerry/Fonda 2004 campaign.  Aint life grand...

[ambrose]

A recent AP story on the Bush National Guard story had *4* reporters on the byline. Four!

How many reporters did the AP ever assign to investigate Mena? Dan Lasseter? Jerry Parks? ADFA?

[KittyKares]

The Democrats are only raising this issue because President Bush's military leadership is one of his strengths and the American people respect him for it. Now that the Democrats finally found somebody in their ranks who served in the military, they are playing it for all its' worth. What hypocrites!