Posted on 09/08/2004 1:48:40 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 09/08/2004 10:04:33 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Great point!
There's plenty in Kerry's background to dwell on without involving his parents. No sense in sinking to the level of Democrats here.
"60 'Too Many' Minutes"!
60 Minutes is no longer the interesting program it once was.
It's not worth my time to listen to obvious Republican bashers. They now come across like bitter old men.
Incidentally, do you know when Richard Kerry was diagnosed w/ tuberculosis? I don't.
I guess your answer is 'No.'
Given that the subject is one about influence of powerful persons on military assignments, I think it's within reason to question whether or not the Forbes family exerted influence on the placement of J. Kerry's father.
Truth will get out. But, think just a second. The charge is so benign that even if true, most people wouldn't be shocked and appalled. It's one of those, "they all do it" things.
Ping for later
Well, if you want to dwell on innuendo and gossip, go ahead. It's not worth debating. Have a nice day.
Wasn't GHW Bush a congressman at that time? How do you get into the Guard? Through your district congressman, state house speaker or the State Governor?
Well, if you want to dwell on innuendo and gossip, go ahead. It's not worth debating. Have a nice day.
No, I'm not. I'm asking questions, obviously questions that you can't answer. Given that this is a public forum, perhaps someone can answer the question--or perhaps some reporter or writer will be motivated to research the question. As to your judgment of my being 'harsh', I'd suggest that you'd be in over your head as Kindergarten Hall Monitor.
elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth Congress;
reelected to the Ninety-first Congress (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1971);
was not a candidate for reelection in 1970 to the House of Representatives but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate;
United States Ambassador to the United Nations 1971-1973;
How do you know he got a draft notice?
I read it on FR.....someplace yesterday....probably a swift thread.
I'll look.
We need to email this around to our friends and political enemies. Rather is an outrageous pimp for the Dems.
Could Bush Sr got him in National Guard?
No "IF" about it...
And...they say they had a waiting list to go into the National Guard. Which waiting list? Was there a waiting list for enlisted storekeepers but no waiting list for pilots?
He was the unindicted co-conspirator with Speaker Gus Mutscher and Governor Preston Smith who ramrodded a banking bill through the legislature as a favor to businessman Frank Sharp. In return Sharp provided a bunch of state officeholders who helped him out with several hundred thousand dollars worth of loans from Sharpstown State Bank, which he owned, that were used to buy stock through another of Sharps' company thus artificially pumping up the price of it, while the stock itself was in turn used as collateral for the loans!
The stock was then boosted to artificial highs then, with a huge killing for Sharp and its owners, it was unloaded onto the educational endowement of a private catholic school in Houston where it soon became worthless, leaving them with the bill. In short, they took the money and ran.
The money was made while Sharp's bill was between the legislature and the governor's desk and then, to cover his tracks, Governor Smith vetoed the thing. Mutscher and a bunch of state reps who helped him went to jail over the thing and he, Smith, Barnes, and dozens of state legislators who were unindicted co-conspirators got the boot in the 1972 elections.
This all goes to show just how desperate Kerry is though. He's making his attacks on Bush now by turning to a human cockroach who is best remembered for bilking a bunch of school children out of their educational endowment fund.
Somehow I don't think this is THE LAST SMEAR however...
08-26-2004
Bush Guard Service, The True Story08-26-2004
The Facts about Bush and the National Guard
- The Democratic charges fall apart07-18-2004
Q and A- F-102, Vietnam & George W. Bush01-24-2004
Bush 'Desertion' Charge Debunked11-17-2002
What did Dubya do in the war, daddy?10-15-2000
The Real Military Record of George W. Bush:
Not Heroic, but Not AWOL, EitherJuly 28, 1999
At Height of Vietnam, Bush Picks Guard
(Washington Post article)
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