What is bush Hiding? [WP]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37081-2004Sep20.html

What Is Bush Hiding?

By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Tuesday, September 21, 2004; Page A21

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"There are a lot of questions and they need to be answered," Bush told the Union Leader in Manchester, N.H., last week. ...

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Bush could end this story now so we could get to the real issues of 2004. It would require only that the president take an hour or so with reporters to make clear what he did and did not do in the Guard. He may have had good reasons for ducking that physical exam. Surely he can explain the gaps in his service and tell us honestly whether any pull was used to get him into the Guard.


But a guy who is supposed to be so frank and direct turns remarkably Clintonian where the National Guard issue is concerned. "I met my requirements and was honorably discharged" is Bush's stock answer, which does old Bill proud. And am I the only person exasperated by a double standard that treated everything Bill Clinton ever did in his life ("I didn't inhale") as fair game but now insists that we shouldn't sully ourselves with any inconvenient questions about Bush's past?


I'm as weary as you are that our politics veer away from what matters -- Iraq, terrorism, health care, jobs -- and get sidetracked into personal issues manufactured by political consultants and ideological zealots. But the Bush campaign has made clear it wants this election to focus on character and leadership. If character is the issue, the president's life, past and present, matters just as much as John Kerry's.


Dan Rather has answered his critics. Now it is Bush's turn.

:wow:

I bet.

"First, except for John McCain, Republicans were conspicuously happy to have a front group spread untruths about John Kerry's Vietnam service in August and watch as the misleading claims were amplified by the supposedly liberal media. The Vietnam era was relevant as long as it could be used to raise character questions about Kerry. But as soon as the questioning turned to Bush's character, we were supposed to call the whole thing off. Why? Because the media were supposed to question Kerry's character but not Bush's.

And, please, none of this nonsense about how Kerry "opened the door" to the assault on his Vietnam years by highlighting his service at the Democratic National Convention. Nothing any candidate does should ever be seen as "opening the door" to lies about his past. Besides, Vietnam veterans with Republican ties were going after Kerry's war record long before the Democratic convention.

But, most important, there is only one reason the story about Bush's choices during the Vietnam years persists. It's because the president won't give detailed answers to the direct questions posed by the Times story and other responsible media organizations, including the Boston Globe. Their questions never depended on the discredited CBS documents."

to never talk about anything bush did before he turned 40. Apparently his life began at age 40. CBS tried to break the rule and got it's ass kicked. The whole thing is completely without precedent. bush is completely without merit or any sense of morals or character.

great article!

:kick:

I sure hope the media (at least newspapers) pick up this op/ed piece.

Does anyone have a login and password for the WaPo? It keeps on rejecting my password for some reason and bugmenot.com logins aren't working. Hook a brother up.

only drawback is SPAM, which you can delete on your e-mail site.

to just about every site there is.

email kos @ dailykos.com
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Let me know if any problems.

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Well, I just saw that bugmenot was not working for you...sorry...my bad and a dumb reply. LOL, I should have scrolled down the page a bit.

If it stays in Latest Breaking News, I'm afraid it will get lost.

At least the Night Owls can keep kickin' it.

:kick: :)

It's fantastic, but it doesn't qualify as Latest Breaking News.

Please continue discussion about Dionne's recent piece in this thread, which can be found in the Editorials & Other Articles Forum:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x74665

Thanks!

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