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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (365031)5/19/2010 3:56:24 AM
From: Nadine Carroll1 Recommendation  Read Replies (5) of 793958
 
Politicians are often people who are needy for admiration, and whose profession constantly calls on them to say how good they are and why they are better than the other guy. It's easy for them to slide into deceptive self-aggrandization and live a lie -- consider what a campaign is, what it has to be in order to succeed. The pressure for every candidate to puff his own record, take full credit for things he had little to do with, never to say 'no' when somebody gives him credit he doesn't deserve, is enormous. After all, they may say to themselves, they take blame they don't deserve often enough, so why should they refuse credit they don't deserve?

So I feel rather sorry for Blumenthal. I think he slid into claiming Vietnam War service rather than Vietnam era service. I don't class him with those vile Winter Soldiers who claim they won Bronze Stars when they never even served. Certainly Blutmenthal's sins are less than John Kerry's, who self-aggrandized himself into medals he never earned, slandered his fellow soldiers, and then stood on the floor of the Senate and claimed fictitious missions for the CIA had been "seared, seared" into his memory.

My only surprise is the NYT exposed Blumenthal rather than covering for him as they did for Kerry. I wonder what the backstory is there.
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