Posted by caraher on May 19, 2008, at 2:45:23
In reply to Re: Obama » caraher, posted by Sigismund on May 18, 2008, at 16:21:13
The smear machine suggested that Max Cleland owed his political career to his own incompetence in blowing his legs off with his own grenade. (A rather cunning move on his part, eh?) See, for instance, http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/02/con04074.html
Interestingly enough, since the 2000 primaries John McCain received the same treatment at the hands of those who felt he wasn't the right kind of conservative. Mocking him for "losing" five aircraft as a Navy pilot (including the mission where he was shot down and imprisoned and for being in a plane struck my an errant missile abord the USS Forrestal), at least one group still hopes to persuade the Republican convention to reject him.
(For their dismissal of his military career see http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/cin_mccain_lost_five_u.htm )
They'll certainly go after Obama with the same high regard for truth. I just think the electorate has figuring out that they've been manipulated to their own detriment.
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