[Rhodes22-list] Politics: Misleading

Mon Sep 20 11:05:13 EDT 2004

Brad,

There's always the short and sweet time honored answer:

"It depends on what the meaning of is is."

Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: brad haslett 
To: The Rhodes 22 mail list 
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics: Misleading

Bill,

I respectfully disagree with most if not all of your
assessments, however, time does not permit me to
formulate a reasoned response this morning.  I do have
one, trust me.

In the meantime, enjoy the attachment.

Brad Haslett
"CoraShen"

--- Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:

> Brad,
> 
> The point of the National Guard issue is not
> Vietnam, any more than the Clinton Impeachment was
> about sex.  Both hinge on the question of
> Presidential misleading.  George W. Bush ran for
> President on this issue, saying repeatedly that he
> would not mislead the American people.  The extent
> to which he has misled the American people about his
> National Guard record is emblematic of the way he
> has misled the American People about virtually
> everything else.
> 
> And it doesn't matter on which side of the political
> fence you place yourself.  
> 
> Did W. report for duty in Alabama as ordered?  No,
> he did not.  He wants to mislead you on this point,
> he can't remember where he was; he doesn't remember
> what he did; there isn't a single individual he ever
> spoke to, or reported to while he was there; he
> knows he got an honorable discharge, so he figures
> you've got to assume he must have been there.  But
> he wasn't, and there is ample support for that
> statement in the records disclosed by the White
> House, and in follow-up interviews with every single
> person who was there at the time.
> 
> But the issue is not military records.  It is
> misleading.  W. has been misleading since he was a
> kid, and it just doesn't stop.  He misled us about
> having no connection to the "Swift Boat Captains for
> Truth," he misled us about the environment, he
> misled us about tax cuts, he misled us about the
> budget, he misled us about fiscal conservatism, he
> misled us about free trade, he misled us about going
> after Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, he misled us
> about why we had to go to war with Iraq, he misled
> us about "Mission Accomplished", he misled us about
> how much the war would cost, he misled us about
> Halliburton, he misled us about oil, he misled us
> about Weapons of Mass Destruction, he misled us
> about Libya, he misled us about France, he misled us
> about Korea, he misled us about "good science", he
> misled us about his energy policy, he misled us
> about Enron, he mislead us about the "Axis of Evil",
> he misled us about Social Security, he misled us
> about 9/11, he misled us about health care costs, he
> misled us about being "a uniter, not a divider," he
> misled us about "fuzzy math," he misled us about
> "revisionist history," he ....
> 
> The idea that people surrounding W. are criticizing
> Kerry for flip-flops is the ultimate in unmitigated
> gall.  W. has taken every side of every issue.  It
> should be easier to compile a list of things he did
> not mislead us on.  Except that it isn't.  What
> didn't he mislead us on?  
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: brad haslett 
> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list 
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 8:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics: National
> Guard Was Hudson River Sailing
> 
> 
> Bill,
> 
> Read it!  You have to get up pretty early to beat me
> to the Times, even though I read it with a "grain of
> salt" just like I do the Memphis Commercial Appeal. 
> Jason Blair may be gone but his spirit lives on at
> the
> "Grey Lady.
> 
> Here's a link to its real signifigance:
> 
>
http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=ses
> 
> Brad Haslett
> "CoraShen"
> --- Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
> 
> > Nice.
> > 
> > Did you see this one today?
> > 
> > >From everything I know they got their facts
> > straight:
> > 
> >
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/politics/campaign/20bama.html?hp
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: brad haslett 
> > To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org 
> > Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 10:05 AM
> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Hudson River Sailing
> > 
> > 
> > Hey Bill!
> > 
> > Did you see this article in today's NY Times?
> > 
> > 
> >
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/19/nyregion/19towns.html?hp
> > 
> > On the next long layover in the NYC area I'm going
> > to
> > try to make it up there.  Might even give them
> some
> > money, you know, compassionate conservative I am.
> > 
> > Brad Haslett
> > "CoraShen"
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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