Report: Candidate bio wrong on military

AP ^ | 9/22/6

[SmithL]

STUPID!

STUPID!

STUPID!

[Izzy Dunne]

he had asked his campaign staff to remove the Missouri citation from the Web site months ago and did not know why it had remained there.

Real leadership potential, there.

[dfwgator]

Mountjoy, of Monrovia

More like Moronvia.

[MineralMan]

Yes....stupid, indeed. Either the candidate never looked at his own website or he was complicit in this. Probably it was the former.

His service is not in question...only his service on that particular ship. It is a stupid mistake.

[dmz]

"I think it was just something that somebody picked up," Mountjoy said. "It didn't come from me."
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So someone just made it up out of whole cloth? His staff never brought his online bio to him for review?

I'm willing to be educated on this, but I fail to see how he is either stupid or a liar. Are there other possibilities I've missed?

[technomage]

He says he served on the heavy cruiser Bremerton, which is worthy enough.

Why would he, or a staffer, feel the need to 'embellish' that service??

Very stupid move.

[BigBobber]

Well, he wasn't going to win anyway...

Now, which military branch did Diane Feinstein serve in?

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

probably only an innocent embellishment resulting from an enthusiastic staffer.....but once noticed, he should have ORDERED it corrected, not "asked" and then not make certain it was corrected. In these days of phony military claims getting jerked from beneath the covers, an unwise move on his part.

[GinJax]

That would be in the Ivory Tower Corps. I think she was/is a 4 star Armchair General.

[SmithL]

It's not like he had a chance in this election, anyways, but he's done as far as statewide politics are concerned. Republicans are not allowed to have untruths or inaccuracies in their military resumes, for any reason.

[Tallguy]

Are the Democrats 'Swiftboating' this guy? I thought military records were sacrosanct? /sarcasm off

[gcruse]

"Now, which military branch did Diane Feinstein serve in?"

Same as Condi. So what?

[gcruse]

" innocent embellishment "

LOL

[Al Gator]

Why do people do such stupid things?

Lying about a military record is just dumb. You WILL get caught.

I really despise people who do this. Dem or R.

[BigBobber]

Because Feinstein made it a campaign issue.

[silver charm]

I was riding the bus to work the other day. As often happens a small conversation was struck up between some of the passengers.

A fellow across the isle proclaimed that he was (now retired but had been). Navy! Special Forces! 82nd Airborne!This is a navy town, alot of active duty and retired up here. As well as the families of. The group went silent almost at once. He went on to educate everyone about how the branches of the service were set up etc. Marines were created in Viet Nam etc.

Posers~spit.

[VeniVidiVici]

Wow! The LA Times digging into Kerry's military records. I don't believe it!







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[camle]

wasn't the missouri the ship on which the japanese surrender was signed?

if so, that might be a motive to embellish.

[piasa]

When my brother retired from the Navy he was given a plaque by civvie and navy coworkers in the with his past service engraved on it. They got it all wrong...

Really wrong.

None of it came from him.

This sort of thing goes on all the time.

Now if he'd said he was sent to Cambodia at Christmastime by a man who wasn't President yet, and managed to get four pruple hearts without one day's hospitalization, all signed for in autopen by a Secretary of the Navy who was a decade or more away from becoming Sec of the Navy when the awards were granted, I'd be concerned that it was a little more than staffer error.