Saturday, August 28, 2004
Bush AWOL: How Ben Barnes got Bush into the TANG "champagne unit"
Finally we get at least a piece of the real story:
Well. There you go.
And I think it took real courage for Bush to go into the Guard because of his "family name of importance."
Especially considering what people would say about it later, comparing Bush to people who actually volunteered to go, and got wounded or killed, and all.
But that's Bush. 100% moral clarity. I mean, heck, God couldn't have called Him to become our Leader if He'd gone to Viet Nam and gotten killed, or something. Let's be reasonable!
"I got a young man named George W. Bush into the National Guard [when I was House speaker] ... and I'm not necessarily proud of that," Barnes, an Austin lobbyist and John Kerry supporter with a lucrative Washington practice, said on the tape. "It was the worst thing I did, was help a lot of wealthy supporters and a lot of people who had family names of importance get into the National Guard. And I'm very sorry of that and I'm very ashamed, and I apologize to you as the voters of Texas."
(via our ownInky)
Well. There you go.
And I think it took real courage for Bush to go into the Guard because of his "family name of importance."
Especially considering what people would say about it later, comparing Bush to people who actually volunteered to go, and got wounded or killed, and all.
But that's Bush. 100% moral clarity. I mean, heck, God couldn't have called Him to become our Leader if He'd gone to Viet Nam and gotten killed, or something. Let's be reasonable!
