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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
I believe in 1971:
1) Our President was nobly completing his fourth year of service in the Texas Air National Guard
2) Senator Kerry was giving succor and support to our enemy in war time by declaring himself and everyone else in the armed services as a war criminal*
While we're at it, let's go to 1972. Since Kerry's camp cannot defend even tself against the Swifties, it appears they have nothing better than to rehash all of the already-answered questions regarding the President's 5th year of Guard service in Alabama. As usual, Tyrone Marshall is leading the charge.
* If true, why would any anti-war Democrat want to vote for a self-avowed war criminal?
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Link to the full article about W"s service on the Blount campaign here.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/20...son/index.html
from the article:
Allison's account corroborates a Washington Post investigation in February that found no credible witnesses to the service in the Alabama National Guard that Bush maintains he performed, despite a lack of documentary evidence. Asked if she'd ever seen Bush in a uniform, Allison said: "Good lord, no. I had no idea that the National Guard was involved in his life in any way." Allison also confirmed previously published accounts that Bush often showed up in the Blount campaign offices around noon, boasting about how much alcohol he had consumed the night before. (Bush has admitted that he was a heavy drinker in those years, but he has refused to say whether he also used drugs).
"After about a month I asked Jimmy what was Georgie's job, because I couldn't figure it out. I never saw him do anything. He told me it basically consisted of him contacting people who were impressed by his name and asking for contributions and support," Allison said.
C. Murphy Archibald, a nephew of Red Blount by marriage and a Vietnam veteran who volunteered on the campaign from September 1972 until election night, corroborated Allison's recollections, though he doesn't recall that the Bush name carried much cachét in Alabama at the time. "I say that because the scuttlebutt on the campaign was that Allison was very sharp and might actually be able to pull off this difficult race" against the incumbent Democrat, Sen. John Sparkman, Archibald said. "But then no one understood why he brought this young guy from Texas along. It was like, 'Who was this guy who comes in late and leaves early? And why would Jimmy Allison, who was so impressive, bring him on?'"
Bush, who had a paid slot as Allison's deputy in a campaign staffed largely by volunteers, sat in a little office next to Allison's, said Archibald, a workers compensation lawyer in Charlotte, N.C. Indeed, when Bush was actually there, he did make phone calls to county chairmen. But he neglected his other duty: the mundane but important task of mailing out campaign materials to the county campaign chairs. Archibald took up the slack, at Allison's request. "Jimmy didn't say anything about George. He just said, 'These materials are not getting out. It's causing the candidate problems. Will you take it over?'"
And far be it from VRWC blogs to take liberties with the truth. Hell, I don't even trust anything I hear on Fox News.
