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DNC TO LAUNCH FRESH ATTACK ON BUSH GUARD DUTY:  WILL RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT 1978 CAMPAIGN LIT
The Drudge Report ^ | 9-12-04 | Matt Drudge

Posted on 09/12/2004 3:59:01 PM PDT by Crazieman

Edited on 09/12/2004 4:34:25 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]






XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN SEPT 12, 2004 19:02:38 ET XXXXX

DNC TO LAUNCH FRESH ATTACK ON BUSH GUARD DUTY:  WILL RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT 1978 CAMPAIGN LIT

**Exclusive**

Faster than a CBS eye can blink, dogged Dems are set to take to the airwaves anew hoping to keep questions about President Bush's National Guard duty in play, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Candidate Kerry apparently has rejected former President Clinton's advice not to get further locked in a 2004 Vietnam quagmire.

"George W. Bush's campaign literature claimed that he 'served in the U.S. Air Force.' The only problem? He didn't,"  slams a new DNC press release set for distribution.

Dems will attempt to increase the heat on Bush ahead of his planned Tuesday address before The National Guard Association gathering in Las Vegas.

In 2000, Bush opened his National Guard Association speech: "General, I am reporting for duty."

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Kerry plans to speak to the group on Thursday, but he personally hold back questioning Bush's service, sources explain.

The coordinated nationwide effort this week by the DNC has been code-named "Project Fortunate Son."

"George Bush has a clear pattern of lying about his military service," DNC Communications Director Jano Cabrera blasts in the new release. "From 1978 to the present day, George Bush has refused to tell voters the truth about his service. It's time for the President to come clean."

"Flyers distributed to Texas voters during Bush's failed Congressional race say 'he served in the U.S. Air Force and the Texas Air National Guard.' But according to Air Force officials, Air National Guardsmen are not counted as members of the active-duty Air Force."

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To: TomGuy

"What happened 35 years ago is mostly irrelevant..."

With the exception of his Senate testimony, imo.


281 posted on 09/12/2004 4:49:59 PM PDT by justshe (I guess if all you've got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. (Rogue Island))
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To: dennisw
"Jano" Cabrera

Nice to see who would be part of a Skerry Admin.

Do the Democrats have anybody working for them that aren't thieves, sex perverts, communists, or imbeciles?

282 posted on 09/12/2004 4:50:23 PM PDT by Rome2000 (The ENEMY for Kerry!!!!!)
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To: Veto!
That's the beauty of the whole insane situation! Kerry MUST privately believe that clinton is a nut-job psychopath. SO, he takes clinton's advice with a grain of salt. But he's nuts, too. The whole damn party needs straightjackets.

It's just about the most perfect storm brewing that I've ever witnessed.

283 posted on 09/12/2004 4:51:16 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (Quick, act casual. If they sense scorn and ridicule, they'll flee..)
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To: Faith-Hope
Gee, I did not know that Kerry had a message

He doesn't have a message .. he has a plan

What is the plan ?? .. You got me .. but he says he has one

284 posted on 09/12/2004 4:52:55 PM PDT by Mo1 (Why is the MSM calling the Vietnam Vets and POW's a suspected group??)
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To: Rome2000

"Jano" Cabrera.....

Yep that fruity looking DNC goof is the one slamming George Bush's military record. What a charade.


285 posted on 09/12/2004 4:53:33 PM PDT by dennisw (Allah FUBAR!)
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To: longtermmemmory

It's worse than just sleepwalking.

There are magazine articles which state:

Kerry's family says his "sleepwalking" is highlighted by his running around the house, screaming at the top of his lungs and pounding the walls or anything that gets in his way.

Other Kerry family members have said there are times he gets so upset over an issue, he withdraws into himself and will not speak to anyone for days.

I DO NOT WANT THIS FREAK FOR A PRESIDENT. I CANNOT TRUST WHAT HE WILL DO WHEN HE'S UNDER PRESSURE.


286 posted on 09/12/2004 4:53:35 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Sen.Miller said, "Bush is a God-fearing man with a good heart and a spine of tempered steel")
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To: Rome2000

This is where they are putting all their marbles:


Bush lost that congressional race, but twenty-one years later, the AP questioned him about the ad. The news outlet had a good reason to do so. Bush had never served in the Air Force. He had only been in the Air National Guard. But when AP asked Bush if he had been justified in claiming service in the Air Force, Bush, then the governor of Texas and a presidential candidate, said, "I think so, yes. I was in the Air Force for over 600 days." Karen Hughes, his spokeswoman, maintained that when Bush attended flight school for the Air National Guard from 1968 to 1969 he was considered to be on active duty for the Air Force and that several times afterward he had been placed on alert, which also qualified as active duty for the Air Force. All told, she said, Bush had logged 607 days of training and alerts. "As an officer [in the Air National Guard]," she told the AP, "he was serving on active duty in the Air Force."

But this explanation was wrong. Says who? The Air Force. As the Associated Press reported,

The Air Force says that Air National Guard members are considered 'guardsmen on active duty' while receiving pilot training. They are not, however, counted as members of the overall active-duty Air Force.

Anyone in the Air National Guard is always considered a guardsmen and not a member of the active-duty Air Force, according to an Air Force spokeswoman in the Pentagon. A National Guard member may be called to active duty for pilot training or another temporary assignment and receive active-duty pay at the time, but they remain Guard members.

The AP report said, "It may be a question of semantics." But today I checked with two spokespersons for the US Air Force, and each confirmed that an active-duty member of the Air National Guard is not considered a member of the US Air Force. "If a member of the Air National Guard is in pilot training," says Captain Cristin Lesperance of the US Air Force media relations office, "they would remain on the Guard books. They would be counted as Guard, not as an active-duty Air Force member."



http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?pid=1704


287 posted on 09/12/2004 4:53:41 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: CurlyDave

Can't you hear that three-dollar bill gaybo reading that ?


288 posted on 09/12/2004 4:54:11 PM PDT by WoodstockCat (DNC and John Kerry: Forgers R' Us)
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To: NonValueAdded

That's hilarious!


289 posted on 09/12/2004 4:54:53 PM PDT by airborne (FreeRepublic.com, a bastion of right-wing lunacy)
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To: Crazieman

Actions speak so much louder than words.

What MORON (!) would fire our President for such tripe? The same ones who said character did NOT matter when it came to Klinton?

I am so sick of the leftist hypocrisy. These morons are taking over the country. Our declining cultural values have caused it all. It didn't happen overnight. But it DID happen with the help of RINOs. Traitors on both sides. If they want a cultural meltdown followed by CivilWarII, they're headed in the right direction.

Bastards.


290 posted on 09/12/2004 4:55:44 PM PDT by Indie (Ignorance of the truth is no excuse for stupidity.)
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To: RtWngr
"- Bush did cocaine in the guard - that's why he didn't go for his physical"

I thought someone said they didn't do urine tests, etc., in the 70's? I don't know, personally, but had seen several people saying that on FR.

291 posted on 09/12/2004 4:55:55 PM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Don't you just love it when little nasty people (McCaulife) confirm your suspicions? This is WONDERFUL news...imo. The American public is tired of the lies and the cover-ups and will see Hairy Kari Terry as exactly what he is, a used car salesman with delusions of grandeur.


292 posted on 09/12/2004 4:56:08 PM PDT by justshe (I guess if all you've got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. (Rogue Island))
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To: Inge C
That incident was covered on a BIOGRAPHY episode of A&E (I think that's the channel) several years ago. It was a tragic accident--the kid who died was Laura's boyfriend at the time. If the DEMs go ANYWHERE near using this against our First Lady, the back-lash will be immense.

And I suspect our President isn't going to take it very well either. He probably can let a lot of the smear nonsense run off his back--but don't mess with a Texan if you're going after his yellow rose!

293 posted on 09/12/2004 4:56:14 PM PDT by Zellenn
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To: Crazieman
Well. After all, they now have the new MS Forger

(Maybe that will help)

294 posted on 09/12/2004 4:56:25 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: BulletBobCo
Too funny ..Is Kerry EVER EVER EVER going to talk about issues? I do a LOT of reading on politics and I swear to God I haven't a CLUE what Kerry stands for on ANYTHING . This is turning into a 4th grade schoolyard shout down ( Oh yea , my dad's bigger than yours , I have more medals than you nahhh nahhh )GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZ..oh Oh ..just noticed my th at the end of 4th eeeeckkk.
295 posted on 09/12/2004 4:56:53 PM PDT by omstrat (zip code77034)
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To: Indie

It's time to make Kerry crazy. Play the Dems non-answer game. If this comes up in a press setting it should be answered by:
"What Senator Kerry did 35 years ago in Vietnam has no bearing on making him a resolute CIC in 2004."


296 posted on 09/12/2004 4:57:13 PM PDT by WoodstockCat (DNC and John Kerry: Forgers R' Us)
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To: zarf
For all of McGovern's faults, he was a class act.

McGovern was an honest liberal. Used to be a common type but a vanishing breed today. The Carter-Mondale-Dukakis string of wipeouts persuaded the lefties that they had to lie to win, and they've operated on that principle ever since.

297 posted on 09/12/2004 4:57:34 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: Southack

The Kerry campaign is going to be one for the history books - far and away the most inept presidential campaign in American history.


298 posted on 09/12/2004 4:57:52 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC
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To: MMkennedy

You were still part of the ARMY.

As the ANG is Part of the Air Force.

Both have a duel control.

Notice that the DNC is playing with words.

They say the official said that the ANG is not part of the
ACTIVE DUTY Air Force. The officials did not say it was not part of the Air Force.


299 posted on 09/12/2004 4:57:53 PM PDT by ArmyBratproud
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To: Mo1

The sad reality is that they do wish to proceed with this because they have left terra firma for lala land.

They are literally destroying everything they had accumulated in an effort to satisfy the unquenchable desire to destroy G.W. and those in support of him.

My only question is how widespread this rooted hate is in this country. I know it doesn't encompass 50% of the electorate. So how far does it reach? 15%? 30%? 40%? 43%? I have no clue. We'll discover that answer when the votes are counted.

My initial response to this latest Drudge headline was to check the calendar. I thought I'd gone back in time. After letting it set in awhile, I feel pity for them.


300 posted on 09/12/2004 4:57:58 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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