“who made the difficult decision to run to Canada”

Pardon me but I think this is utter BS. Who are you talking about. Deserters? The draft ended in the seventies. You don’t have to volunteer, but if you do honor your commitments. And difficult decision? As opposed to what? Having your life endangered every day? Living in a tent in 110 degree weather. Fighting extrmeist religious fanatics? Difficult?

Yeah, sipping a latte in Toronto reading the ol’ newspaper is pretty damned difficult, alright.

Dugger

Bush’s service record has a ton of inexplicable holes in it. What has been reconstructed indicates he got special treatment and did frequently skip his duties and requirements until he was grounded. Then no one knows what he did. Honorably discharged as a grounded flier, with no commendations or medals.

All that aside, the Richardson baseball story brings to mind the early Bush claim that he served in the active Air Force. Minor, of no value, who cares.

“I find it curious tht Bush s service record is so incomplete, don t you?”

Not a bit. The ANG is all about improvisation and accommodating people. Do VIPs kids get special treatment. Yeah. Did Bush. Probably, but I can think of much better treatment than flying the Deuce. Bush served and was honorably discharged. Thats pretty complete. While in he flew the F-102, a relatively dangerous fighter aircraft. Its not up there with Poppa Bush or McGovern or others, but it is quite a bit more service than Bill Clinton did.

And by the way, Bush, when in training, actually served in the active AF. I trained with bunches of FANGS myself and I was active.

And if you don’t think there has been nasty rhetoric hurled at Bush, you live in a strange world.

Dugger

“Me, I’m catching it for this week’s cartoon for daring to suggest that, well–you know.
Of course, there are differences. Hitler, for example, was legally elected. And he had a plan–not one that I like, but a plan–for the period after the war.
I’ll be happy to stop comparing Bush to Hitler when he stops acting like him. ” (Rall)

Then how about a guy named Bush. I will spare you my references to Bush-nazi associations. The point of course was that it happens to important and/or noticeable public figures – in particular, political ones.

Dugger “Filmmaker Spike Lee thinks the federal government might have destroyed a levee to drive black people out of New Orleans while saving the white sections of the city after Hurricane Katrina. But it’s not clear he will push that notion in a documentary he will make for HBO.”

Plus, I think he will get beat up by his own party too much to have a chance, which is unfortunate. Especially from the far left in the party, (unless he decides to pander to them, but I don’t think that’s his style.)

But he is one Democrat that I wouldn’t feel bad about seeing in the White House playing first chair with a Republican Senate and House intact.

Don’t you think, you can always tell the weakest intellectually by the frequency and harsheness of their invective? Just about every important candidate has radical groups or individuals opposed to him – who go after him. Look at the nasty campaign against Michelle Malkin and Instapundit right here. Very common. However, the contention was that it was “the GOP” – which I would take to mean, well, the GOP.
Now as matter of fact, I detest what Kerry did after the war and personally consider his conduct ugly, unpatriotic and reprehensible and I am a Republican – but that doesn’t make my position “GOP”. No more than the hateful mocking of Malkin’s name by Democrats suggests the Democratic party i abusing her.

Did this help? Hope so. Try again and maybe even get an adult to help you.

Dugger

Liar. They called him a coward, they said he’d lied to get his purple hearts, and mocked those wounds they couldn’t deny. No one incident has so clearly revealed the hatred the right has for the left as the way the GOP went after Kerry’s war service. There is no better example of the way Rove’s tactics have shredded any claim to decency today’s GOP could possibly make.

I’m under no allusions that a moderate like Gov. Richardson would be characterized – by you and the rest of the right – as the same faaaaaar left liberal that has been used against middle of the road Dems like John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton. The way to know the most liberal person on earth, at least according to the right’s fuzzy ass math, is whoever the Democratic nominee is.

It may be confusing to you because you are rather badly misinformed.

A. Bush didn’t desert. Wasn’t AWOL. Honorably discharged.

B. Kerry’s combat service was not held against him by the GOP, but rather his detestable over-the-top actions after the war (Winter Soldier, VVAW, negotiations with N Vietnam, etc)

MP,

Two words for You: Soros, Hollywood.

Dugger

They did, however, hold John Kerry’s decorated combat service against him.

It’s so confusing.

Ummm, yeah, that’s where the money is, Dugger.

I view him as a sensible moderate and he’s a governor (historically a better indicator than Congress), but he’s short on charisma and would probably be very weak on fund raising – as the big money hard left would likely not be very enthusiatic about him. Where does he stand on the war?

Dugger