[Cincinatus' Wife]

***Kerry campaign worsens***

[Jeff Chandler]

Thank you. Come again.

[Republican Wildcat]

Senator Cleland - a former Vietnam veteran who lost an arm and both legs in combat

Is that correct? I had read it was self-inflicted.

[JimboUSofA]

"That wheelchair keeps on turnin'...". Wasn't that a Tina Turner song?

[coconutt2000]

The author of this has several problems... the first and foremost being a lack of familiarity with the story.

[GeronL]

Cleland is now filing an ADA lawsuit against Bush because his ranch is not wheelchair accessible

[longfellow]

. He stood on the deck, in front of the world's cameras with a banner in the background proclaiming 'Mission Accomplished'. Whoever thought up the plan might have remarked at his own ingenuity at the time - Jealous cause Max couldn't do this!?

[Salamander]

I think his campaign is taking on quite a mythological quality...sort of like...let's say..."Icarus".....;)

[SkyPilot]

Early yesterday, Max Cleland, a former US Senator from Georgia ventured down to the President's ranch in Crawford, Texas, to deliver a letter to Bush requesting him to personally denounce the Swift Boat ads...

Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to share with you my story of how I came to know and love John Kerry.

The real story is that Cleland is a bitter non-hero who lost his limbs (not in combat) but through a grenade accident. Cleland was ( appropriately) not awarded the Purple Heart. His patriotism was never questioned during his Senate re-election campaign--but his voting record was held under proper sructinaty----and the people of Georgia thought he was unfit to lead them.

[Casloy]

Classic Indian pseudo intellectual claptrap. So involved with his own brilliance he's not even aware he hasn't a clue what is going on. Spent 4 years in India reading what passes for newspapers, and this is fairly typical.

[HHFi]

Personally, I thought this was the most cheap, vulgar, low piece of transparent political theater I've seen since Clinton left office. Any tiny amount of respect I might have still harbored for John Kerry went right down the toilet when he sent the amputee in the wheelchair out to fight his battles for him, with the obvious intent of using his injuries to get pity. It's pathetic, all right, but not in the way he intended.

Absolutely sickening...