The Republicans and their junior college instructor lackey's have a long
history of belittling those who served well while exaggerating the
military records of their, more prudent, candidates.

Can anyone remember the 1972 election? During WWII Richard Nixon ran a
Navy fruit drink stand at some South Pacific backwater supply base while
George McGovern was leading groups of B24s in daylight attacks on Nazi
Europe. AFter the war McGovern used the GI Bill to get a Ph.D., while
Nixon used slush funds to finance red baiting.

By election time in 1972 the Republican propaganda machine convinced the
weak minded and ignorant that Nixon was the warrior and McGovern the dodger.

They're trying to pull the same trick in 2004.


Yes.

I have only briefly heard any of the Hoopla around Clinton's book.

I did hear him say one striking thing:

After Carter won in 1976 and was then defeated by Reagan in 1980, the
Republicans -seriously- thought that no Democratic candidate could -ever- be
elected again. Not given their dirty tricks organization they installed in
1972. Clinton's election they saw as a break in the "natural order of
things."That dirty tricks organization is going great guns even now, and has
convinced some otherwise wonderful Americans that Bush -- the clear shirker --
who declined to volunteer for overseas service, is more worthy than a man who
not only volunteered for combat duty, but even requested an even more dangerous
assignment.

This dirty tricks organization went full tilt in an effort to keep Clinton
from governing. They did this with the White Water scandal -- nothing there.
And Vince Foster -- nothing there. As President Clinton said, Ken Starr was
determined to drive him out of office regardless of the facts -- to -negate-
the decision of the voters.

The Republicans appear to have a full grasp of Orwell, even if some college
professors who often post here do not.

Walt