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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: PROLIFE who wrote (613739)8/30/2004 7:33:34 AM
From: JDN  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Just ANOTHER crooked Democratic politician, whats new about that? Anyone who believes ANYTHING Barnes has to say is too ignorant to be a Republican. jdn



To: PROLIFE who wrote (613739)8/30/2004 8:50:33 AM
From: tonto  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Do you think AS will accept this or will he ignore the facts? (s)

Apparently what Barnes claims he did was "seared" in his memory.

Barnes, who was House speaker when Bush entered the Guard, later became lieutenant governor.

Curiously, the story omits a key portion of the Barnes quote, possibly because it demonstrates a glaring inconsistency in Barnes' story. A video of Barnes' speech shows the full quote as follows, the omitted portion in bold:

I got a young man named George W. Bush into the National Guard when I was Lieutenant Governor of Texas and I'm not necessarily proud of that, but I did it

The problem with Barnes' story: Bush entered the Texas Air National Guard in 1968 at which time Barnes was Speaker of the House. Barnes did not take office as Lieutenant Governor until 1969 and thus could not have done what he claimed. Some readers may best remember Barnes as a central unindicted co-conspirator in the Sharpstown Stock Scandal that rocked the Texas legislature in 1971.

chronicallybiased.com



To: PROLIFE who wrote (613739)8/30/2004 2:13:45 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
The problem with Barnes' story: Bush entered the Texas Air National Guard in 1968 at which time Barnes was Speaker of the House. Barnes did not take office as Lieutenant Governor until 1969 and thus could not have done what he claimed.

And why the hell not?

As Speaker of the House, he had more clout than as Let. Govenor of TX. You all should not depend on the rightwing media for your news........they either get it wrong or outright lie!

<font color=blue>NO MORE YEARS!