If he ran the country the way he's running his campaign, we'd be in deep doo doo with him at the helm.
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Posted on 09/09/2004 5:49:53 PM PDT by wagglebee
A woman purporting to be Amy Barnes, daughter of former Texas Lieutenant Gov. Ben Barnes, said Thursday that her father had fabricated claims that he used his influence to get President Bush into the Texas Air National Guard 36 years ago.
In a phone call to WBAP's Mark Davis radio show in Dallas, Texas, Ms. Barnes told guest host Monica Crowley that her father was an "opportunist" who had lied about Bush's Guard record during a "60 Minutes II" broadcast Tuesday night.
BARNES: I love my father very much but he's doing this for purely political reasons. He is a big Kerry fundraiser and he is writing a book also. And [the Bush story] is what he's leading the book off with . . . He denied this to me in 2000 that he did get Bush out [of Vietnam service]. Now he's saying he did.
CROWLEY: Did he tell you, Amy - and I'm glad I have you on the line with me - did your father tell you that he was prepared to do this on behalf of John Kerry - go after President Bush like this?
BARNES: He told me he was going to do it. In fact I talked to him a couple of months ago. He told me he was writing the book. He told me that he was going to be talking about this. And he knows that I - we have very diverse political opinions. He knows my opinions and we get into this debate every time I see him. But, you know, he said that he was going to be talking about it.
CROWLEY: Now you're saying, Amy, that he has had two separate stories on President Bush's Guard duty during the Vietnam era?
BARNES: Yes, yes. This came out in 2000 and I asked him then, at the time, if he [helped get Bush into the Guard]. He said, "No, absolutely not. I did not do that."
CROWLEY: So, I hate to put you in this position but I will ask you, do you think your father, Ben Barnes - who was on "60 Minutes II" with Dan Rather last night - do you believe that he lied on the air to the American people last night about President Bush?
BARNES; Yes, I do. I absolutely do. And I think he's doing he's doing it for purely political, opportunistic reasons - trying to get John Kerry elected and trying to make Bush look like the bad person. . . . Like I said, he's going to be trying to promote his book that he's got coming out. [End of Excerpt]
Crowley's colleague, WABC Radio's Mark Levin, aired a tape of the exchange in New York after confirming that Barnes' does indeed have a daughter named Amy.
Both Barnes' son and daughter have totally refuted this story. Heads better roll at CBS.
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Did Colmes just say Truth to Power? LOL
The RATs really blew it this time. Their crooked liar and their forged documents didn't last 24 hours. Kitty kelly's book has been descredited (to say it politely) before it's even released. This is like when the arab terrorists blow themselves up with the bomb they are building. Right now I'm listening to alan colmes and geraldine ferraro have mental breakdowns trying to lie their way out of this.
Let me guess - is this part of the new Amazon/60 Minutes partnership like Joe Wilson and Dick Clarke had?
Oh, for heaven's sake! How hard would it be to verufy this. No. Instead they automatically try to make it look like a fabrication. Anyone that supports Bush or discredits Kerry just has to be a liar and a fraud. Newsmax should be ashamed of itself.
I wish Sean would ask Ferraro if she has bothered paying income tax lately, or did she figure she could quit when she retired from government.
If he ran the country the way he's running his campaign, we'd be in deep doo doo with him at the helm.
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I don't know about Peoria, but I was in Springfield IL today and live in east central IL and it ain't playing either place.
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Bush Guard Service, The True Story08-26-2004
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The Real Military Record of George W. Bush:
Not Heroic, but Not AWOL, EitherJuly 28, 1999
At Height of Vietnam, Bush Picks Guard
(Washington Post article)
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Well, from my admittedly sketchy knowledge of the '60's, it's a leftover hippie phrase like "Power to the People!" Flower child lingo. Colmes just had a FB to the '60's!
"Power to the people" was a Black Panther thing.
"Flower Power" was a hippy thing.
You need to tell the hippies I've met that they are using the wrong phrase, then. LOL
I've heard both phrases from leftover hippies of the era.
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