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Blumenthal calls Vietnam comments misplaced words
AP via Yahoo News ^
| May 18, 2010
Posted on 05/18/2010 2:50:20 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal on Tuesday said he had "misspoken" in claiming more than once that he served in Vietnam, dismissing the furor that threatened to endanger a seemingly safe Democratic seat as a matter of "a few misplaced words."
At a news conference backed by veterans, the popular Connecticut attorney general and front-runner to replace the retiring Sen. Christopher Dodd, said he meant to say he served "during Vietnam" instead of "in Vietnam." He said the statements were "totally unintentional" errors that occurred only a few times out of hundreds of public appearances.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: blahblahblah; blumenthal; calls; comments; connecticut; liars; marines; misplaced; posers; richardblumenthal; stolenvalor; usmc; vietnam; words
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To: Rennes Templar
To: Rennes Templar
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posted on
05/18/2010 3:33:43 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Rennes Templar
Dick Blumenthal: “I played a Vietnam Veteran on Stage -It was a recurring role”
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posted on
05/18/2010 3:39:10 PM PDT
by
libertarian27
(Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
To: NYCslicker
as a kid i once changed oil from the v.w. and it drained on the ground and a friends wife read me the riot act then splained to me about the pollutants effect.
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posted on
05/18/2010 3:46:45 PM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(Just say NO to RINOs. (FUBO))
To: Rennes Templar
Anyone who believes these lame lies that the Dems tell deserves to have their whole world fall in on them. Which is exactly what is going to happen if their policies aren’t soundly rejected.
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posted on
05/18/2010 3:47:19 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(0basma's father was a British subject. He can't be a "natural-born" citizen.)
To: Chode
Love the little kid and his finger! ROFL
To: GulfWar1Vet
thx, me too... i just hope Bloomy gets the horn.
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posted on
05/18/2010 4:03:47 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Rennes Templar
If you had to try to explain the Advent of the Tea Party and peoples anger you would be hard Pressed to find a more Concise explanation as Blumenthal and His Mealy Mouthed speech at his News Conference today.
This is Precisely the Crap that people are just sick and tired of,A Politician who So Blatantly Lies on something so profound and then Squirms like the Slimy Lizard that he looks like while trying to do I dont know what with that circus called a News Conference and to top it off he has Lackies Applauding Him to Boot, What A freakin DISGRACE
To: Rennes Templar
And Mark Souder “misplaced” his penis!!
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posted on
05/18/2010 4:15:18 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience....)
To: jonrick46
PLUS he’s the ATTORNEY GENERAL!! “STOLEN VALOR” is a CRIME!!
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posted on
05/18/2010 4:17:00 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience....)
To: Rennes Templar
yeah, like the Zer0 misplaced his birth certificate...
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posted on
05/18/2010 4:19:39 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Rennes Templar
Well, when you lose, just say you won. You’ll feel a whole lot better.
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posted on
05/18/2010 4:25:41 PM PDT
by
taxesareforever
(Release Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich and let him and his family get on with their lives.)
To: Chode
There was a time —not so long ago, since I can remember it— when democrat voters would have shamed this lying fraud out of even running for public office. Not so anymore. Democrats like to be lied to and count it a badge of competence that their candidates can lie and steal and live thuggish lives while ‘legislating’ ... so long as the democrats deliver the dole unabated.
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posted on
05/18/2010 4:26:22 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
To: Rennes Templar
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posted on
05/18/2010 4:27:19 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Rennes Templar
In a related story, New York Representative Charlie Rangel today said that his money was simply "misplaced taxes."
-PJ
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posted on
05/18/2010 4:29:11 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
To: Rennes Templar
At a news conference backed by veterans, the popular Connecticut attorney general and front-runner to replace the retiring Sen. Christopher Dodd, said he meant to say he served "during Vietnam" instead of "in Vietnam." He said the statements were "totally unintentional" errors that occurred only a few times out of hundreds of public appearances. Did Blumenthal mis-speak when he chose to do his presser
at a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall ? Was he stealing warriors valor doing his presser at the VFW ?
The people behind him were not members of the VFW.
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posted on
05/18/2010 4:35:19 PM PDT
by
Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
To: MHGinTN
absolutely... power is their only objective and for it the RATS will, or may already have, sold their souls...
im starting to believe that the Zer0 truly is Nyarlathotep...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyarlathotep
he is described as a tall, swarthy man who resembles an Egyptian pharaoh who wanders the earth, seemingly gathering legions of followers through his demonstrations of strange and seemingly magical instruments, the narrator of the story among them. These followers lose awareness of the world around them, and through the narrators increasingly unreliable accounts the reader gets a sense of the worlds utter collapse. The story ends with the narrator as part of an army of servants for Nyarlathotep.
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posted on
05/18/2010 4:55:54 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Rennes Templar
I nominate him for king of the weasels.
Never have I heard a more pathetic "explanation".
He should be ashamed, and fire all those who "advised" him.
THEN, he should resign.
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posted on
05/18/2010 5:14:14 PM PDT
by
mombonn
(God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
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posted on
05/18/2010 5:42:54 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: Rennes Templar
Yeah, yeah, and when I was married to...to...Morgan Fairchild...Yeah..that’s the ticket...I got seven Purple Hearts..uh,uh...on D-Day, and...and... Inchon.
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posted on
05/18/2010 5:50:03 PM PDT
by
gigster
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