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VIDEO: Blumenthal Touts Vietnam Service In 2008
RealClearPolitics ^ | May 17, 2010 | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 05/17/2010 7:38:16 PM PDT by i88schwartz

In this March 2, 2008 video, current Connecticut Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal (D) touts his service in the Vietnam war.

However, the New York Times reports:

At a ceremony honoring veterans and senior citizens who sent presents to soldiers overseas, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut rose and spoke of an earlier time in his life.

"We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam," Mr. Blumenthal said to the group gathered in Norwalk in March 2008. "And you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it, Afghanistan or Iraq -- we owe our military men and women unconditional support."

There was one problem: Mr. Blumenthal, a Democrat now running for the United States Senate, never served in Vietnam. He obtained at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and took repeated steps that enabled him to avoid going to war, according to records.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 2008; blumenthal; ct2010; richardblumenthal; service; touts; video; vietnam

1 posted on 05/17/2010 7:38:16 PM PDT by i88schwartz
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To: i88schwartz

Another dirtbag grifter.


2 posted on 05/17/2010 7:44:35 PM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: i88schwartz
Creep. So many men use Vietnam as a profile. Why? Didn't the libs spit on our brave Vietnam troops?
3 posted on 05/17/2010 7:45:23 PM PDT by Bronzy
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To: i88schwartz

He and Dodd are cut from the same cloth. Hence the name BlumenDodd. We drove Dodd out of office for his lies and will do the same with his protege by following him to every public function in the state.


4 posted on 05/17/2010 7:46:31 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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5 posted on 05/17/2010 7:46:53 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: i88schwartz

Why do I feel like I need a shower after watching that snake?


6 posted on 05/17/2010 7:47:19 PM PDT by rottndog (Freedom IS NOT FREE--Let us NEVER FORGET those that have paid the highest price for it.)
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To: Signalman

Toast! Another one bites the dust.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNQRfBAzSzo


7 posted on 05/17/2010 7:50:10 PM PDT by Bronzy
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To: i88schwartz

I find it interesting to see so many leftists are ‘proud’ to say they serve in a war they hated so much.


8 posted on 05/17/2010 7:50:15 PM PDT by paudio (Are you better off today than in 2006, when the Democrats took over the Congress?)
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To: i88schwartz

Bottom line, only a certified slimeball would lie about serving in Vietnam. Please defeat this thing sticking to the bottom of your shoe, Conn.


9 posted on 05/17/2010 8:12:05 PM PDT by boocoowell (Nuclear power now for crying out loud)
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To: i88schwartz

This is the same New York Times that did and continues to give traitor John ‘F’in Kerry a pass?


10 posted on 05/17/2010 8:49:33 PM PDT by DakotaRed (What happened to the country I fought for?)
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To: i88schwartz

Stick a fork in it..


11 posted on 05/18/2010 1:47:01 AM PDT by Sprite518
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