Dad's note adds to Guard flap - Ex-president expressed pride in son's attitude

Houston Chronicle ^ | September 18, 2004 | MICHAEL HEDGES, Washington Bureau

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The cad!

[goldstategop]

A father expressing pride in his child? Now there's the makings of a full-blown scandal! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Texasforever]

The democrats are beyond redemption.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Shocking! Shocking! AND put out on a Friday to HIDE his PRIDE!

Byron York: The Facts about Bush and the National Guard - The Democratic charges fall apart.***Lost amid all the charges are the facts about Bush's time in the Guard. When did he serve? What did he do? Did he fulfill his responsibilities? Was he in Alabama? In the March 8, 2004, issue of National Review, Byron York investigated and found the answers. ***

[clee1]

And I am totally distraught at the notion that a AF General would write to a US CONGRESSMAN to say how well his son was doing.

CongressCritters scare the hell out of the military, for a multitude of reasons.

[flashbunny]

absolute scandal I say!

Bush's father should have done the right thing - get a single woman pregnant, abandon her and the child, and leave raising and providing for him to the government! For good measure, he should have done this several times with many different women! That's the admirable thing to do!

What nerve he had to impose his intolerant "nuclear family" lifestyle on the rest of us!

[jag42]

It goes to show the great values the Bush family have. It says a lot when a parent writes about their child. I too hope to take that type of pride in my son.

Notice there never is any good writing except from Kerry his self.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

And to THINK a Congressman would REPLY to his son's superior officer's note of praise.

The very NERVE of it deserves this news story!

[Howlin]

APPROACH THIS MAN CAREFULLY: The race is on to score an interview with Walter Staudt, the former commander of the Texas National Guard and the man the infamous CBS documents allege pressured Killian to "sugar coat" Bush's performance review. Staudt might be able to clear some things up for everyone, but story after story over the last few days has frustratingly reported that he won't return anyone's phone calls. Time even sent a reporter out to knock on Staudt's door, but the octogenarian didn't answer. It's not a surprise. Staudt doesn't seem to be a big fan of the media or the Guard story. Here's what he told the Spokane Spokesman-Review earlier this year:

"I love the guy," Staudt said of Bush. "I'm so tired of this negative crap about him that I'd like to volunteer to build a barn and take you press guys out behind it and kick your asses."

Maybe that Time reporter should get hazardous duty pay.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

*** "I love the guy," Staudt said of Bush. "I'm so tired of this negative crap about him that I'd like to volunteer to build a barn and take you press guys out behind it and kick your asses."***

Now that's a note that needs to be delivered.

[crazyhorse691]

JFKs response was a desperate attempt to provoke a backlash against the President. The Rats concern is only for themselves and to heck with the country. JFK is not an honorable man.

[Howlin]

The White House had said all information in Bush's files was released earlier this year.

At least Bush signed his 180; according to the articles tonight in the NY Post Kerry hasn't.

[AHerald]

That Marx line about history repeating itself as farce is starting to make sense to me now.

If this is the best they've got, the DNC and their enablers in the MSM are on their way to mumbling to themselves on street corners about the metal plates the CIA implanted in their heads.

[MJY1288]

LOL, What should have Pappy Bush done???? Should he have said.... "My son is much like John Kerry.... He thinks at every level, you are all war criminals?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

JFK is not an honorable man.

And THAT is what is fueling this Bush witchhunt.

The public is smarter than Kerry operatives.

[lodi90]

This is just more good news for Bush. Anything that keeps Vietnam in the news will remind voters of Genghis Kerry's many questionable actions. Nothing that comes out in a memo will be worse than Kerry's speech to Congress.

[woofie]

Heck, my Father contacted a Priest when I was 22 and tried to arrange an exorcism

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Yes!

Why WON'T Kerry sign a 180 to release ALL his miltary records?

Bush HAS.

Kerry MUST have something DAMNING to HIDE!

[ladyinred]

This is certainly no scandal. President 41 is well known for his letters, and even if he weren't what is the big deal? This stuff is smoke and mirrors to keep the Swift Boats, and Kerry's treason out of the media and the minds of voters.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It SCREAMS family values.