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Skriven 2010-05-18 04:00:00 av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
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Ärende: SC governor still at it..
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On 05-15-10, ROSS SAUER said to ROSS CASSELL:


RC> When the press got a hold of where he really was, he made no denials.


RS>Because the press had clear proof Sanford was lying.


RC> When the story first broke over Clinton, the first thing Clinton did
RC> was deny it on camera..


RC> "I did not have sex with that woman, Ms Lewinsky"


RS>In his view, he hadn't.
RS>And it didn't originate with Clinton.



And I suppose that, in *your* view, you weren't really lying when you told us
you had witnessed several plane crashes, or worked on A-10 Warthogs (not to
mention (then new) Sidewinder missiles).


Here's a little something just for you:


Blumenthal's Words Differ From His History -


Candidate's Words on Vietnam Service Differ From History


Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut is running for a seat in
the Senate.


By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ


Published: May 17, 2010
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.



AN ASSISTANT IN THE NIXON WHITE HOUSE


In 1969, Richard Blumenthal was hired by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, presidential
urban affairs adviser.




"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.


The deferments allowed Mr. Blumenthal to complete his studies at Harvard;
pursue a graduate fellowship in England; serve as a special assistant to The
Washington Post's publisher, Katharine Graham; and ultimately take a job in
the Nixon White House.


In 1970, with his last deferment in jeopardy, he landed a coveted spot in the
Marine Reserve, which virtually guaranteed that he would not be sent to
Vietnam.


He joined a unit in Washington that conducted drills and other exercises and
focused on local projects, like fixing a campground and organizing a Toys for
Tots drive.


Many politicians have faced questions over their decisions during the Vietnam
War, and Mr. Blumenthal, who is seeking the seat being vacated by Senator
Christopher J. Dodd, is not alone in staying out of the war.


But what is striking about Mr. Blumenthal's record is the contrast between the
many steps he took that allowed him to avoid Vietnam, and the misleading way
he often speaks about that period of his life now, especially when he is
speaking at veterans' ceremonies or other patriotic events.


Sometimes his remarks have been plainly untrue, as in his speech to the group
in Norwalk. At other times, he has used more ambiguous language, but the
impression left on audiences can be similar.


In an interview on Monday, the attorney general said that he had misspoken
about his service during the Norwalk event and might have misspoken on other
occasions. "My intention has always been to be completely clear and accurate
and straightforward, out of respect to the veterans who served in Vietnam,"¯ he
said.


But an examination of his remarks at the ceremonies shows that he does not
volunteer that his service never took him overseas. And he describes the
hostile reaction directed at veterans coming back from Vietnam, intimating
that he was among them.


In 2003, he addressed a rally in Bridgeport, where about 100 military families
gathered to express support for American troops overseas. "When we returned,
we saw nothing like this,"¯ Mr. Blumenthal said. "Let us do better by this
generation of men and women."


At a 2008 ceremony in front of the Veterans War Memorial Building in Shelton,
he praised the audience for paying tribute to troops fighting abroad, noting
that America had not always done so.


"I served during the Vietnam era,"¯ he said. "I remember the taunts, the
insults, sometimes even physical abuse."¯


Mr. Blumenthal, 64, is known as a brilliant lawyer who likes to argue cases in
court and uses language with power and precision. He is also savvy about the
news media and attentive to how he is portrayed in the press.


But the way he speaks about his military service has led to confusion and
frequent mischaracterizations of his biography in his home state newspapers.

In at least eight newspaper articles published in Connecticut from 2003 to
2009, he is described as having served in Vietnam.


The New Haven Register on July 20, 2006, described him as "a veteran of the
Vietnam War," and on April 6, 2007, said that the attorney general had "served
in the Marines in Vietnam."¯ On May 26, 2009, The Connecticut Post, a
Bridgeport newspaper that is the state's third-largest daily, described Mr.
Blumenthal as "a Vietnam veteran."¯ The Shelton Weekly reported on May 23,
2008, that Mr. Blumenthal "was met with applause when he spoke about his
experience as a Marine sergeant in Vietnam."¯


And the idea that he served in Vietnam has become such an accepted part of his
public biography that when a national outlet, Slate magazine, produced a
profile of Mr. Blumenthal in 2000, it said he had "enlisted in the Marines
rather than duck the Vietnam draft."

¯
It does not appear that Mr. Blumenthal ever sought to correct those mistakes.


In the interview, he said he was not certain whether he had seen the stories
or whether any steps had been taken to point out the inaccuracies.


"I don't know if we tried to do so or not,"¯ he said. He added that he "can't
possibly know what is reported in all" the articles that are written about
him, given the large number of appearances he makes at military-style events.


He said he had tried to stick to a consistent way of describing his military
experience: that he served as a member of the United State Marine Corps
Reserve during the Vietnam era.


Asked about the Bridgeport rally, when he told the crowd, "When we returned,
we saw nothing like this," Mr. Blumenthal said he did not recall the event.


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I like that selective memory of his. Sort of like your own. You know, I have a
particular dislike for individuals like you and Blumenthal. You steal honor
that doesn't rightfully belong to you. And by doing so, you throw dirt on
every single military war veteran in America's history.You are both in the
same category of trash. The very least I can say for Al Gore or John Kerry is
that they were both actually in-country, and are real Vietnam Veterans,
despite my loathing of both of them.



People who fake up military careers for their own self-image, be they on the
level of society you occupy, or in the high reaches of political power that
Blumenthal travels in, are lowlifes of a special category. And their lies
should be trotted out and scorned on a regular basis. The punishment of public
humiliation for their attempt to cover themself with an honor they didn't
earn, should follow them all the days of their life.




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