I was debating whether or not to post this. Had decided against it until I read this stupid "smear boat" cheap shot.
Apparently the folks in Georgia weren't too enamored of Max Cleland as their Senator.
Whatever his shortcomings as a Senator may have been, Cleland served with distinction in RVN. It genuinely saddens me to see him willingly besmirch his reputation as a veteran for the likes of kerry. And as the article points out, kerry sought to use crippled veterans to support his lies back in 1971. History repeats itself once again. How anyone can consider supporting that disgusting slimeball is beyond my comprehension.
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SAD MAX TURNING TRICKS FOR THE POODLE
by Neal Boortz
In April of 1971 John Kerry gave the following testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "I called the media .... I said 'If I take some crippled veterans down to the White House and we chain ourselves to the gates, will we get coverage?' 'O, yes, we'll cover that.'"
Then, on August 25, 2004, John Kerry sends Mac Cleland, a veteran who lost three limbs in Vietnam to accost George Bush at the gates of his Crawford ranch.
It was a sad and pathetic spectacle, especially for people like myself who have known and loved Max Cleland for so many years. Sadly, former Georgia Senator Max Cleland is now serving in a new role as John Kerry's public relations prostitute Yesterday he went to President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas yesterday to deliver a letter. That's right...Max went right up to the gate to deliver a letter to George Bush asking him to specifically condemn the Swift Vets attacks on The Poodle. The letter said "you owe a special duty" to condemn the attacks. Interestingly John Kerry apparently owes no special duty to tell Moveon.org to stop the 'AWOL' attacks on George Bush's military service. But why argue the fine points of media bias?
Anyway, so there it was....poor Max Cleland, playing up the shock value of his disability by visiting the president's home in Texas. How sad. Doesn't Cleland realize why he was picked for the job? Why for instance did The Poodle not send John Edwards? Right...he's not a Vietnam Vet. Well then...how about some other Democrat that was in the military...maybe Tom Harkin? Nope...of course the Kerry campaign sent Max Cleland...they used him...because of his status as a triple amputee. Just go back to Kerry's statement to the Senate in 1971! They hope that the image of Cleland in his wheel chair on the news will pull at people's heart strings and make them dislike that mean, evil George Bush. Talk about having no pride...what do you suppose Max is after?
Maybe The Poodle has promised him a job in a potential Kerry administration. Maybe Max has nothing better to do. Maybe it's just the result of Cleland's intense bitterness over losing his U.S. Senate seat in 2000. Cleland says that his patriotism was challenged in that election. I was here ... I was in the middle of it ... and that's not the case. The voters of Georgia were disgusted. They didn't like the way Max Cleland sold his very soul to Tom Dashle and the government employee unions, and they made their feeling known at the polls.
Either way, it's a shame. By the way, Cleland wanted to deliver the letter to an officer, but neither the Secret Service nor the state troopers would take it. A Texas state official and Vietnam veteran Jerry Patterson said he would accept the letter and offered a pro-Bush letter, but Max said he would just mail it in.
Kind of like he did when he was in the Senate.
Can this get any more absurd? While John Kerry is sending surrogates to the Western White House to demand denunciations of the Swift Boat veterans, supporters stand behind him at a visit to a union shop in Philadelphia holding bumper stickers that read "George Bush, AWOL, 1972-1973."
And by the way: ANOTHER LIE! DOES THIS MAN EVER TELL THE TRUTH?
Here are the words of The Poodle at a gathering in Richmond, Virginia on January 20th, 2003:
"I remember well April 1968 -- I was serving in Vietnam, a place of violence -- when the news reports brought home to me and my crewmates the violence back home, and the tragic news that one of the bullets flying that terrible spring took the life of [Dr. King.]"
Oops. Small problem here. If you look at John Kerry's website you will see that he didn't report for duty in Vietnam until November 16, 1968 .. more than seven months after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered.
Oh well.
