Max Cleland, trashed President Bush in Conference call today to reporters...

1 posted on 07/19/2004 2:26:30 PM PDT by kcvl

2 posted on 07/19/2004 2:27:44 PM PDT by RockinRight (Liberalism IS the status quo)

He's still upset that he got ousted out of the senate! Poor baby - WAAAAHH!

3 posted on 07/19/2004 2:28:53 PM PDT by princess leah

They are COMPLETELY losing their grips. It's very weird to witness.

4 posted on 07/19/2004 2:29:39 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)

He is probably the most bitter one out there. Too bad he can't get over losing the election, and blaming Pres. Bush and Republicans for a legitimate loss. But I don't think that kind of rhetoric helps Kerry, do you?

5 posted on 07/19/2004 2:30:13 PM PDT by BonnieJ

I thought Kerry told them to tone it down. Then he has his #1 mouthpiece trash the President. I guess Kerry's "adviser" Bob Shrum didn't get the memo.

6 posted on 07/19/2004 2:31:49 PM PDT by kcvl

Guess he's still pi$$ed that he blew himself up. That's the only reason I can think of why Cleland would trash a man who has never said anything personal or degrading about him. Small man, small mind.

7 posted on 07/19/2004 2:32:49 PM PDT by mass55th (We are The Knights Who Say "Ni!" No! Not The Knights Who Say "Ni!" The same!)

Here in Georgia we don't miss him one d@mn bit. We're glad he's gone.

8 posted on 07/19/2004 2:33:25 PM PDT by Little Ray (John Ffing sKerry: Just a gigolo!)

9 posted on 07/19/2004 2:34:42 PM PDT by TomServo ("I'm so upset that I'll binge on a Saltine.")

Isn't Cleland scheduled to introduce JF Kerry at the Dem Convention?

10 posted on 07/19/2004 2:36:06 PM PDT by zeaal (SPREAD TRUTH!)

Remember, Max is a veteran and was in Vietnam. He lost his limbs on the battlefield, remember. Oh, wait, I forgot, Max lost his limbs because he was stupid to pick up a grenade that he saw on the ground. Very stupid move. You are taught NEVER to pick stuff up like that. It could be alive. In this case, it was. While I feel for him losing his limbs, HE WAS NOT WOUNDED IN COMBAT AND SHOULD NOT KEEP PORTRAYING THAT HE LOST HIS LIMBS IN COMBAT!!!! BECAUSE HE DID NOT!!!!!! No worse than some guy losing a leg in a vehicle accident, IN A COMBAT ZONE. He lost the leg, but NOT IN COMBAT!!!

11 posted on 07/19/2004 2:36:38 PM PDT by RetiredArmy ( I am a Vietnam Vet. I have been accused of war crimes by the ADMITTED WAR CRIMINAL Kerry)

I really cannot come to grips with how low the Dems have taken the public discourse. I have no doubt that both sides have equal vitriol in their personal comments and observations but to regularly go out in public and show the restraint of a spoiled adolescent is mind boggling. Nobody in this country can expect to behave like that and even maintain a job and yet this is the behavior they resort to in an effort to gain power.

12 posted on 07/19/2004 2:38:22 PM PDT by Dolphy

Great Post. Great tag. Thank you for your service Veteran!

13 posted on 07/19/2004 2:40:49 PM PDT by Spotsy (The news media should report the news, not manufacture it)

From Anne Coulter:

Cleland lost three limbs in an accident during a routine noncombat mission where he was about to drink beer with friends. He saw a grenade on the ground and picked it up. He could have done that at Fort Dix. In fact, Cleland could have dropped a grenade on his foot as a National Guardsman – or what Cleland sneeringly calls "weekend warriors." Luckily for Cleland's political career and current pomposity about Bush, he happened to do it while in Vietnam.

There is more than a whiff of dishonesty in how Cleland is presented to the American people. Terry McAuliffe goes around saying, "Max Cleland, a triple amputee who left three limbs on the battlefield of Vietnam," was thrown out of office because Republicans "had the audacity to call Max Cleland unpatriotic." Mr. Cleland, a word of advice: When a slimy weasel like Terry McAuliffe is vouching for your combat record, it's time to sound "retreat" on that subject.

Needless to say, no one ever challenged Cleland's "patriotism." His performance in the Senate was the issue, which should not have come as a bolt out of the blue inasmuch as he was running for re-election to the Senate. Sen. Cleland had refused to vote for the Homeland Security bill unless it was chock-full of pro-union perks that would have jeopardized national security. ("OH, MY GOD! A HIJACKED PLANE IS HEADED FOR THE WHITE HOUSE!" "Sorry, I'm on my break. Please call back in two hours.")

The good people of Georgia – who do not need lectures on admiring military service – gave Cleland one pass for being a Vietnam veteran. He didn't get a lifetime pass.

Indeed, if Cleland had dropped a grenade on himself at Fort Dix rather than in Vietnam, he would never have been a U.S. senator in the first place. Maybe he'd be the best pharmacist in Atlanta, but not a U.S. senator. He got into office on the basis of serving in Vietnam and was thrown out for his performance as a senator.

Cleland wore the uniform, he was in Vietnam, and he has shown courage by going on to lead a productive life. But he didn't "give his limbs for his country," or leave them "on the battlefield." There was no bravery involved in dropping a grenade on himself with no enemy troops in sight. That could have happened in the Texas National Guard – which Cleland denigrates while demanding his own sanctification.

Full article: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20040212.shtml

14 posted on 07/19/2004 2:41:44 PM PDT by theophilusscribe ("America is too great for small dreams." —Ronald Wilson Reagan)

To: Frank_Discussion

They are COMPLETELY losing their grips. It's very weird to witness.

And VERY dangerous talk to-boot! The RNC, and republican Senators better come out swing....NOW, not tomorrow or next week, BUT NOW!! WE need ads featuring all those ASSHOLES as anti-American! PUTTING our lives in danger by spewing such venom during a time of WAR and inspiring and emboldening the terrorists is soooooo freakin dangerous! GAWD the libs have ABSOLUTELY lost their minds!! UGH!!

15 posted on 07/19/2004 2:44:06 PM PDT by RoseofTexas

this is going to make kerry look immature and petty

16 posted on 07/19/2004 2:44:58 PM PDT by The Wizard (Democrats: enemies of America)

To: princess leah

He's still upset that he got ousted out of the senate! Poor baby - WAAAAHH!

What a hard-hearted woman you are! Don't you realize that by informing voters of his record, the GOP was questioning his patriotism?

17 posted on 07/19/2004 2:47:45 PM PDT by TontoKowalski

Don't hold it in so much, hon'! lolol!!

I get just as mad at this stuff, but on the blazingly bright side, this sort of thing at this level of bile does NOT turn on Kerry's base. There's a subconscious urge to avoid being labeled crazy by association to these nutbars.

18 posted on 07/19/2004 2:50:02 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)

I don't doubt what you're saying for a minute. I've seen similar comments about how Cleland received his wounds in Vietnam, but do you have any articles on this? Regards, O.C.

19 posted on 07/19/2004 2:51:10 PM PDT by O.C. - Old Cracker (When the cracker gets old, you wind up with Old Cracker. - O.C.)

There was a running joke while Stumpy was head of the VA that he was the WORST thing to happen to Vets since they left VietNam!!!

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