Dish it out, but won't take it

Max Cleland has started bitching and moaning about the swiftboat vet ads. I'm sure if he had his feet he'd be stomping them right now in protest.

CRAWFORD, Texas — Former Georgia Sen. Max Cleland said he tried to get a letter to President Bush asking him to specifically denounce independent campaign ads against John Kerry but no one at the president's ranch would accept the letter.

Cleland, a Democratic triple amputee who served in the Vietnam War, arrived in nearby Waco in the early afternoon with Jim Rassmann, the man who says he was pulled out of a river in Vietnam by Kerry, who ultimately saved his life.

"These scurrilous attacks on John Kerry's credibility and war, his courage, his valor, are false and George Bush is behind it," Cleland told members of the press after trying to deliver the letter. "That's why I tried to deliver a letter to the president's home and hand it to either him or one of his aides but that was unsuccessful and I'm sorry it was."

Well I think all attacks like that on both sides suck, but if you want to be President, you have to put up with it. It is not new. Mudslinging is as old as American politics.

And President Bush did say all the attacks should stop. That means all the ones from Moveon.comorg should stop too. Where was sumpy when there were ads saying the President's dad got him out of going to Vietnam? Where was he calling for Kerry to call for an end to those?

I think Americans are smart. They saw Bush come out against the ads, and keep seeing Kerry, the Ambulance Chaser, and Stumpy still harping on it. I think they also see the hypocrisy in denoucning the Swiftvet ads while giving Moveon.orgcom a pass.

Posted by psugrad98 at August 25, 2004 03:06 PM