EXCLUSIVE: The Dirt on Ben Barnes Claims about Bush and the Air National Guard (Part 2)

The Blogspirator ^ | 8/29/04 | adam_az

[itsahoot]

Well, it looks like the Barns story has been overwhelmimgly debunked.

Unfortunately this will not become truth until the MSM says it is.

[Tamzee]

This is even more outrageous since Barnes' accusation was debunked because he wasn't lt. gov. until a year after Bush joined... AP is actively engaging in hiding information from the public.

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Quote published yesterday by AP quoting Barnes from the video http://69.59.167.160/ ...

"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,"

AP's NEW quote taking out the middle and running in the current article today... also REPLACING the full quote in yesterday's article.

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

AP story today here - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=4&u=/ap/20040829/ap_on_el_pr/bush_national_guard

[austingirl]

bttt

[TejasRose]

Speaking as an old-timer in Texas, Ben Barnes was your typical 2-bit rat operative back in the days of an old fashioned rat dynasty down here. Because of the rumors that swirled around him, I'm surprised Barnes hasn't died of some horrid social disease by now!

I don't remember the details of the story, but wasn't Barnes involved with a stripper?

[Michael.SF.]

Ben Barnes is a walking dumpster of old style Democrat corruption

Old style?

I guess the new style has a no smoking room? ;)

[Theodore R.]

Wasn't Ben Barnes a Connally man? He must have opposed Connally's 1973 party switch, as did Connally's close friend, Lady Bird Johnson.

[Theodore R.]

I guess the TX GOP struck pay dirt when Barnes did not follow Connally into its ranks.

[adam_az]

No, that was his buddy Dan Morales

[mtntop3]

His pop could have gotten GW into any miltary unit in the world...and kept him ther for his full time...Greece....Germany.....Italy....you name it

Instead he goes into a jet fighter unit....

hey libs...do the math
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Bush could have gone to Vietnam in a rear echelon job, such as Gore's five month stint there as an "army correspondent" (i.e., feature writer). Flying jet fighters is a hazardous occupation - and Bush did it for four years as part of the Air Defense Command at a time when there was a real threat to the U.S. from Soviet long-range aircraft with nuclear weapons. And he did volunteer to go to Vietnam as a fighter pilot.

[TejasRose]

No, that was his buddy Dan Morales

The stripper Barnes was involved with was back in the 1960s, and her name was Candy Barr. I don't remember all of the details, because I was just a kid then. ;-)

[Grampa Dave]

Bumping for the truth.

[freekitty]

This guy is nothing but a graft and greedy crook. I remember him from a long time ago.

[kittymyrib]

Thank you! The Slimes ought to get thousands of copies of this grapic today.

[Just mythoughts]

Have you found any connection with the Texas Barnes and the KC, MO. Barnes a member of JFkerry's "club" that wanted to rid us of some Senators?????

[Eastbound]

Me too. I remember a couple of things about her but that's about it.

[adam_az]

I'll look into it.

[Just mythoughts]

Thanks, Lehman has denied signing that citation, so somebody pulled a fast one sanitizing that collection of records.

[EdReform]

BTTT

[EdReform]

Ping

[dennisw]

Ben Barnes was Speaker of the House then Lt Governor of Texas, all in one continuum. He was in office during the time he says he got GWBush his Texas Air National Guard slot.