Lautenberg calls Cheney 'lead chickenhawk' in criticizing Kerry

Newsday,AP ^ | April 28, 2004, 3:43 PM EDT | DONNA DE LA CRUZ

[woofie]

WASHINGTON -- Tossing a verbal egg at Dick Cheney's military record, Sen. Frank Lautenberg blasted the vice president Wednesday as the "lead chickenhawk," who squawks about John Kerry's Vietnam War record despite never serving himself.

"The chickenhawk has no idea what it means to have the courage to put your life at risk to defend this nation," Lautenberg said on the Senate floor. "But they are quick to disparage those who did sacrifice."

[Semper Paratus]

The 'rats are nuts. They are not going to come ahead in this 'dueling war records'.

[L.N. Smithee]

HTML. It's a good thing.

[theDentist]

I thought his name was spelled 'Loudenmouth'?

[OldFriend]

The DNC has become HYSTERICS ARE US!!!!

If they can't justify their votes they just change the subject and lie about that too!

[pogo101]

A new low. A sitting Senator calls the sitting Vice President a "chickenhawk" from the well of the Senate.

Unbelievable.

[cricket]

I hope these people pay dearly for their ignorance.

[Not A Snowbird]

Lautenberg is a fool.

[mlbford2]

Give Lautenberg a break. Walking around with a constant load in your Depends would make me cranky too.

[muawiyah]

Lautenberg spent three years in the Army and came out a corporal (same as today's E-4).

There he was in the world's greatest war in history and he couldn't get promoted ~ sounds almost like Kurt Waldheim who went into the German army as a lieutenant and came out a lieutenant.

Was it a behavior problem, or a decided lack of interest in military service that held him back?

No doubt it took the draft to get this guy into a uniform.

[Judith Anne]

Chickenhawk is not a word I associate with anyone in Congress, except maybe Barney Frank or Hillary!

[woofie]

Yea I like that HTML stuff ...this time I chose some kind of automatic cropping deal ....sorry

[hellinahandcart]

I heard this on Rush. They left out the stammering. If the speech hadn't been so offensive, the delivery would have been hysterically funny.

[kimoajax]

I first met Frank Lautenberg many years ago when he ran ADP. He was a windbag then who could bore salespeople to death with his annual dronings trying to rally the troops. It was obvious to everyone that he was an embarrasement who had to be "retired." The only thing that has changed about him is his age and circumstance.

[Lunatic Fringe]

The resemblence- I say, the resemblence is UNCANNY!

 

[ShandaLear]

This is something special coming from Foghorn Leghorn!

[trebb]

How ironic - more and more of the party that hates the military are starting to disparage people because they "never served in the military"...Just goes to show that they don't stand for anything but what they think will sound good to...to...to...the average idiot on the street.

[Capitalism2003]

I heard McCain got on after him and laid the smackdown on his @$$.

[motzman]

Two crazy old men.