Presidents in Glass Houses Shouldn't Let their Surrogates Throw Stones

Hey, THEY wanted to bring up Vietnam, right?



If we're going to talk about Vietnam, let's go back to those pesky Bush TANG records, shall we? Start with Paul Lukasiak's detailed study of the Bush records (try to ignore the ghastly color scheme; it's worth coping with to read this stuff); then scroll down here to see Bernard Weiner's analysis, then let the good folks at Corrente distill it all for your edification, and you're left with only one conclusion:



The man so blithely feeding America's children into the meatgrinding maw of the Iraq insurgency was just too damn chickenshit to even finish his own Air National Guard service. But of course, the Swift Boat Veterans for Cultivating Old Grudges From Here to Eternity don't want to hear about that.



Does it matter at this point? Does any of it matter? Perhaps it shouldn't. It WAS all many years ago, as so many people have noted. It's an issue only because the current occupant of the White House wants to paint himself as some kind of brave military fighter pilot, when he's just really wearing the Halloween costume. But somewhere along the line, someone at the DNC, having STILL not learned the lessons of 16 years of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove's tactics, topped off with whipped cream and the cherry of the Ken Starr witchhunt, decided, in the face of all evidence of reality, that they wouldn't DARE impugn a military hero. Famous last words.



I told people as early as last year that if Democrats thought that John Kerry's military service would hold the Republican Smear Machine back, they should guess again.



I hate it when I'm right.