Posted on 08/29/2004 1:07:55 AM PDT by ambrose
In yesterday's AJC it said, " . . .Barnes says in the posted excerpt, which misstates the office he held at the time: He was actually House speaker"
House speaker??? At least they admit Barnes wasn't Lt. Gov. at the time, but they're still lying to cover the fact Barnes was in Geneva.
Thanks for the correction. But I'm confused. Was Barnes living in Geneva at the time?
He may have still technically held the post of House Speaker in 1968, I dunno... but Texas has a part-time legislature, so if they weren't in session, he was most likely in Geneva. That's certainly what his own resume conveys.
He damn well wasn't Lt. Gov in 1968...
I do not know. But Texas does not have a full-time legislature, so he could hold the title as Speaker of the House at the same time he was appointed to the UN position. The thing to emphasize here, IMHO, is not the UN spot, as we don't even know how much time it entailed, but the fact that he said he was Lt. Governor at the time of this request, but he was really the Speaker of the House. That's not a minor error, as they are different positions.
But here's something I found interesting while doing a google search on this. I don't know if this has been posted before:
The speaker, Ben Barnes, intervened on Bush's behalf sometime in late 1967 or early 1968 at the request of a good friend of Bush's father, then a Republican congressman from Houston, the sources said. The friend, Sidney A. Adger, was a prominent Houston business executive who died in 1996. The Guard official contacted at his behest, Brig. Gen. James M. Rose, died in 1993.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/barnes092199.htm
How convenient that both people were dead by the time he spun this story. If Barnes had this involvement, why wouldn't have come out with this in 1994, when Ann Richards was in a losing battle with Bush? Because Adger was still alive, and could have refuted the story!
They're reduced to people who've been in the same state as Bush at some time in his life. We'll soon see articles by his first grade teacher...'I passed this sniveling coward onto second grade. He was a liar and a bully and wet his pants, blah, blah, blah.' Or someone who stopped behind him at a red light...'I nearly rear-ended the jerk. I had a chance to kill him then and blew it....' Kerry's beyond desperate to put out drivel like this. Things must be looking hopeless at RAT headquarters. His candidacy is dead. Maybe we'll see mass firings, new staff dragged to Nantucket to dig him up again. And while he's 'resting', his stooges will be running around sliming Bush and the Swifties and RAT mobs on drugs will act out in NY.
What's funny is that Kerry's backers say "we must look at the issues". If we are not going to consider the man and his past now, when are we to do it? The issues will be discussed during the debates.
The LAT is just using the same edited quote that the AP is now using.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=4&u=/ap/20040829/ap_on_el_pr/bush_national_guard
This linked story seems to have the facts right, and the play back and forth, as I understand it.
The best thing about the Kerry campaign is that every day they f**k up. Every single day without exception.
And today (Sunday) is a beautiful day.
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