" His lawyer training should have taught him "once you ring the bell you can't unring it counsel." Even worse is he didn't checkout in disclosure that there weren't more and better witnesses out there to discredit what he was saying. As I said; This is leaving one hell of a huge black and blue and sickly green bruise Dems."
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I sure hope so, SandRat!!! I just fear that since this whole thing peaked on Friday, by Monday no one (but a few) will care enough to report on it. By late Friday, pretty much all media was reporting George Elliott took back what he said. NOT TOO MANY FOLLOWED THROUGH, though where he took back his statement; and I don't think many will pick it back up on Monday.
See here: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040806/us_nm/campaign_kerry_vietnam_dc_6
That's BARELY mentioned - no wait - it's not EVEN mentioned mainstream press I've see that he changed his mind back again and said he DID NOT DESERVE what he received.
Even so called Fair and Balanced FOX didn't say it, as far as I saw. Never said he went back to his ORIGINAL claim. (Gotta wonder, just who was pressuring George Elliott in the first place, don't ya? In my mind's eye, I was having a very weird view.) LOL. Then he came back to his senses, in my estimation. I really think this needs to get hammered big time --- that Vietnam Veteran Elliott WENT BACK TO HIS ORIGINAL STATEMENT. This message is fading fast!