[Rhodes22-list] Politics: Misleading

[Bill Effros]

Brad,

The point of the National Guard issue is not Vietnam, any more than the Clinton Impeachment was about sex.  Both hinge on the question of Presidential misleading.  George W. Bush ran for President on this issue, saying repeatedly that he would not mislead the American people.  The extent to which he has misled the American people about his National Guard record is emblematic of the way he has misled the American People about virtually everything else.

And it doesn't matter on which side of the political fence you place yourself.  

Did W. report for duty in Alabama as ordered?  No, he did not.  He wants to mislead you on this point, he can't remember where he was; he doesn't remember what he did; there isn't a single individual he ever spoke to, or reported to while he was there; he knows he got an honorable discharge, so he figures you've got to assume he must have been there.  But he wasn't, and there is ample support for that statement in the records disclosed by the White House, and in follow-up interviews with every single person who was there at the time.

But the issue is not military records.  It is misleading.  W. has been misleading since he was a kid, and it just doesn't stop.  He misled us about having no connection to the "Swift Boat Captains for Truth," he misled us about the environment, he misled us about tax cuts, he misled us about the budget, he misled us about fiscal conservatism, he misled us about free trade, he misled us about going after Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, he misled us about why we had to go to war with Iraq, he misled us about "Mission Accomplished", he misled us about how much the war would cost, he misled us about Halliburton, he misled us about oil, he misled us about Weapons of Mass Destruction, he misled us about Libya, he misled us about France, he misled us about Korea, he misled us about "good science", he misled us about his energy policy, he misled us about Enron, he mislead us about the "Axis of Evil", he misled us about Social Security, he misled us about 9/11, he misled us about health care costs, he misled us about being "a uniter, not a divider," he misled us about "fuzzy math," he misled us about "revisionist history," he ....

The idea that people surrounding W. are criticizing Kerry for flip-flops is the ultimate in unmitigated gall.  W. has taken every side of every issue.  It should be easier to compile a list of things he did not mislead us on.  Except that it isn't.  What didn't he mislead us on?  

Bill



----- Original Message ----- 
From: brad haslett 
To: The Rhodes 22 mail list 
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics: National Guard Was Hudson River Sailing


Bill,

Read it!  You have to get up pretty early to beat me
to the Times, even though I read it with a "grain of
salt" just like I do the Memphis Commercial Appeal. 
Jason Blair may be gone but his spirit lives on at the
"Grey Lady.

Here's a link to its real signifigance:

http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=ses

Brad Haslett
"CoraShen"
--- Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:

> Nice.
> 
> Did you see this one today?
> 
> >From everything I know they got their facts
> straight:
> 
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/politics/campaign/20bama.html?hp
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: brad haslett 
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org 
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 10:05 AM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Hudson River Sailing
> 
> 
> Hey Bill!
> 
> Did you see this article in today's NY Times?
> 
> 
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/19/nyregion/19towns.html?hp
> 
> On the next long layover in the NYC area I'm going
> to
> try to make it up there.  Might even give them some
> money, you know, compassionate conservative I am.
> 
> Brad Haslett
> "CoraShen"
> 
> 
> 
> 
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