i'd be depressed tooo if i blew myself up like he did...
Posted on 08/29/2006 4:04:25 AM PDT by gr8eman
My guess is his depression stems from losing his senate seat and not getting the plum job he thought he would get when Kerry was elected.
In other words, this unfortunate person needs a lot of help and should definitely not be giving out advice. (But that can be said of any Democrat.)
Pity about his maladies. Greater pity that he's allowed them to be traded on.
This sums it up, imho.
I buy it. I also think he is (disgustingly) using it to make a political point about the war in Iraq. I don't think it has to be one or the other.
I buy it too. He's had a brain injury that comes into the mix. It's real. Sure, his wife's going to see that it hits the news.
How far into the depths of STUPIDITY do these prix have to dig before they realize NO ONE is buying their B.S. any more?
They are playing on these bogus polls saying that people are getting tired of Iraq, but their absolute arrogance won't let them see that people also understand it's a neccessary part of the WOT.
I don't buy it for a nano-second.
i think the dnc is trying to rehab all the democrat politicians with "mental disorder" in order to say EVERYTHING is a wound.
Thus the democrat party members who happen to be soldiers can come back and make use of their military careers for anti-war purposes.
This goes with the DNC talking point of all soldiers are wounded.
This is fumble fingers rehab. They NEED walking wounded for speaker immunity.
Cleland will be back in 2008 "speaking for the soldiers".
he's looking for sympathy. People might feel sorry for him and vote democrat, after all it was Bush that caused his trauma.
Wanted to be sure you saw this in light of upcoming events. I won't be surprised if this is the media focus when they cover his appearance.
Reminds me of the lady on Boortz yesterday who said her SIL blamed Bush for her fathers lung cancer. "If he had only cancelled the space program and put that money towards cancer research, my father wouldn't be sick."
Sounds to me like he needs an excuse to not campaign for Murtha and other anti war critics. I guess we'll know on September 30th in Johnstown.
i'd be depressed tooo if i blew myself up like he did...
Is this condition brought on by being around traitors like John Kerry or does the condition cause one to seek out traitors like John Kerry.
He's an actor now, starved for attention.
Yep, I buy it...because I've seen it up close and personal, and perhaps you have too but just didn't recognize it. In late 1966 I was in Da Nang and witnessed a Marine with PTSS; I didn't know the guy so I shrugged it off. The next year I was at New London in a submarine damage control trainer and I saw it again (from a chief steward). This time I did know the guy(he had been in WWII and had made war patrols and had been depth charged) and when the damage control trainers began the drill it became too much for him to continue.
Back then they called it "shell shocked" because there wasn't a term for PTSS...and there were a lot of old WWII vets with PTSS. After I got out of the Navy I saw it again as I was a night security guard at a V.A. hospital while in college on the G.I. Bill and witnessed it a lot--mostly from alcoholics who had too much wine and began seeing their deamons from the war again.
I didn't agree with Cleland's politics (he is a bonafide liberal) but at least he served his country honorably--which is something a lot of Republican "chickenhawks" cannot say--and I believe his PTSS is real.
This is pitiful, that he can prostitute himself so. He must have caught it from Mother Sheehan. Pitiful.
It's crap. Cleland , who managed to damage himself, i believe, with his own grenade, has continued his bitter little journey since rightfuly losing his re election bid. What a pathetic, miserable little waste of time is he.
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