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BREAKING: Democratic CT-SEN Candidate Richard Blumenthal Has Lied For Years About Serving in Vietnam
redstate.com ^
| 5-17-2010
| Dan McLaughlin
Posted on 05/17/2010 6:59:42 PM PDT by JerseyRepub
The NY Times has the story; the longtime crusading state Attorney General (he was Eliot Spitzer before Eliot Spitzer was), Richard Blumenthal has sometimes just implied it, but on other occasions (including one the NYT has on video) he’s said outright that he served in the Marines in Vietnam, when in fact he enlisted in a stateside Marine Reserve unit only near the end of the war after obtaining five draft deferments to pursue his legal education. The deferments are nothing to be proud of, but they’re a common enough story among male political leaders of that generation in both parties. But lying to cover himself in the hard-earned valor of others is dishonorable and despicable, and Blumenthal has been doing it for years now in a political career that’s spanned two decades.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: blumenthal; candidate; democratic; liar; lied; richardblumenthal; serving; stolenvalor; vietnam; years
See the original NY Slimes article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/nyregion/18blumenthal.html
Folks on the dark side are going nuts over this...they think he's a gonner...
To: JerseyRepub
To: JerseyRepub
A Democrat lied? Go figure.
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posted on
05/17/2010 7:01:31 PM PDT
by
Hoodat
(.For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Sorry - should have done a search.
Admin, please delete this post.
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posted on
05/17/2010 7:02:25 PM PDT
by
JerseyRepub
(I voted for John Kerry before I voted against him!)
To: JerseyRepub
This will doubtlessly make him dem presidential candidate material. All he has left to do is some drugs, and screw around with a few women.
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posted on
05/17/2010 7:03:13 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: JerseyRepub
the only thing more contemptible than a poser is an outright traitor like John F'in Kerry!
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
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posted on
05/17/2010 7:03:29 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
To: JerseyRepub
If this had been a Republican candidate, the NYT would have waited until after the filing deadline to break the story. Now the Democrats have until Friday to pull a rabbit out of the hat.
To: JerseyRepub
Another Democrat telling lies? Why's that news? They all lie, all the time.
bumper sticker
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posted on
05/17/2010 7:06:22 PM PDT
by
Oceander
(The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
To: JerseyRepub
Well no Shiite?! And Barry O. couldn’t possibly be a con job...
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posted on
05/17/2010 7:13:26 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: JerseyRepub
He’ll claim he’s being made a victim now for mistakes of his youth.
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posted on
05/17/2010 7:14:41 PM PDT
by
Darkwolf377
("You seem to believe that stupidity is a virtue. Why is that so?"-Flight of the Phoenix)
To: JerseyRepub
He was leading in the general election polls before this broke, and it appears that the deadline to nominate a candidate for Chris Dodd’s seat is Friday, which isn’t much time for the Democrats to find a replacement... The NYT's apparently thinks its enough time, or else they wouldn't have run the story.
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posted on
05/17/2010 7:16:10 PM PDT
by
Plutarch
To: JerseyRepub
Heck, it will probably help in CT. All those libs up there were probably nervous about supporting a Vietnam vet.
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posted on
05/17/2010 7:16:43 PM PDT
by
apillar
To: Hoodat
“A Democrat lied? Go figure.”
_____________
Or more accurately yet, “A politician lied? Go figure.”
Most all of them stink to high heavens of lies.
This guy lied when the truth would have sufficed.
To: JerseyRepub
GO PETER SCHIFF
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posted on
05/17/2010 7:21:08 PM PDT
by
truthguy
(Good intentions are not enough!)
To: Blue Collar Christian
bj clintoon should counsel him.
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posted on
05/17/2010 7:43:38 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
($10 (I think) amounts through the internet from all over the world.)
To: hal ogen
Yeah, he only lied when his lips were moving.
To: Blue Collar Christian
This guy reminds me of Spitzer from NY..
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posted on
05/17/2010 8:13:21 PM PDT
by
Hojczyk
To: ConorMacNessa
the only thing more contemptible than a poser is an outright traitor like John F'in Kerry! They're both lower than stool sweat.
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posted on
05/17/2010 8:17:00 PM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(Liberal Logic: Mandatory health insurance is constitutional - enforcing immigration law is not.)
To: JerseyRepub
Good! They should be, this guy is the Atty. General.
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posted on
05/17/2010 8:33:05 PM PDT
by
gidget7
("When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson)
To: Hojczyk
Spitzer was a BULLY as well as a LIAR.
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posted on
05/18/2010 7:18:45 AM PDT
by
LottieDah
(If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf the unborn)
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