Posted on 05/18/2010 11:45:42 AM PDT by i88schwartz
"I am proud of my service in the United States Marine Corps," Richard Blumenthal (D), candidate for US Senate, said. "Hoo-rah" and "Semper fi" was uttered several times. "I take full responsibility" for misspeaking he said.
"I will not allow anyone to take a few misplaced words and impugn my record of service to our country," he stated. "I served in the United States Marine Corps reserves and I am proud of it," he concluded.
"I did misspeak on a few occasions," he admitted. He also added that he "regretted" it.
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Therefore it's my "educated" opinion a real Marine would not have ever made such a claim even though I know he was with the Reserve. His gunny would strip him to shreds.
I hope this POS stays and this plays out over the summer...it will just be a drag on the rats...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxVi1EzUmMI
Beck keeps asking him what specific law allows him to go after the legal bonuses given to AIG employees.
He never gives an answer.
He has to be one the slimiest politicians to come along in quite a while...He's not a very good liar
I would not second guess regular from reserves. This SOB never saw more Marine training and "action" than the OC club due to daddy's connection. 99.999% of Marines, regular or reserves, do not have that pull.
Meghan doesn’t often rile me, but when she said Blumenthal stood “in front of REAL Vietnam Vets,” I lost it. How in hell does she know whether or not they’re as phony as he is? Anyhow, that’s my take on the “support” he received. The original speaker never even mentioned his own service in Vietnam, tho he mentioned rather a few of his subsequent work on behalf of vets.
If Jim Webb was correct (back in the days when he knew the difference between truth and falsehood), over three times the number of actual Vietnam vets claim Vietnam action. That’s a scandal, and I’ll bet the wanna-be number’s up exponentially as Vietnam recedes from memory.
Will anyone investigate the foreign-war creds of those who stood behind RB? Nah.
He’s a true Dem. Now that he has apologized, all will be forgive and he will be their hero again. Everything is hunky-dorey in the world again. Them pesky Pubbies and conservatives always causing problems.
When will the Dem/Libs get a brain! Words have meaning, not whatever meaning given at the moment or whatever meaning you want to give them after-the-fact.
Wonder if any of them belong to a certain union.
My first thought!! I’m just wondering in ANY served in Vietnam.
My infantry battalion (2d Bn, 1st Infantry Regiment)replaced the 5th Marine Regiment in Danang in June, 1971. We ran some joint operations in order to get to know their AO. Whoever came up with that date, must have forgotten to tell those Marines that they had already left.
Your point is right on the money, Blumenthal was never at risk of having to go and he damn well knew it.
Misspeak. Defined as a democrat caught lying.
I sazy let him stay in the race. He will get slaughtered in the general election and it will be another pickup for the GOP. Then he can go back to whatever rock he crawled out from under and misspeak to his heart’s content.
This guy sounds like USMC Gen James Jones a REAL Slimy Basard!
Me=AD/MC 1976-1980 ~ AD/Nav 1980 - 1996
I probably ineptly tried to make my point.
But what got me was somehow he tried to make it sound like he was just this Forrest Gump type guy that walked into a recruiting office and he was put on a bus to Parris Island.
This is a guy that got 6 deferrments, was a seantors staffer.
Worked out of the WH, NIXON WH, and NO ONE even whispered to him .
Especially getting deferrments while working for the Washington POST for GS.
Women were not allowed to serve in Combat zones back in the 60’s-70’s.
And why did it take being exposed to make you come clean on your NON-record as a Marine?
Any companies, individuals out there who might just take the AG to task on possible malfeasance in carrying out his duties?
Admitting he "misspoke" more than once should open one enormous can of worms with focus on the office of AG in the state.
Fake Marine Viet Vet. Also now known as "Semper If."
This Viet Nam vet would punch him in the mouth given the chance.
I’ve met many more phony VN vets than real ones since I came home in 1968.
Interesting. I think that this must refer to the headquarters elements. The guys we worked with were 5th Marines, perhaps companies, or a battalion operating under 1st Marine Regimental control. They were out of the field by 15 June and gone from Danang by the end of the month.
I get ur point. I knew Forrest Gump. Forrest was a friend of mine. And Bleumenthal is no Forrest Gump! (Forrest had a friend called Bubba. Blumey had a friend called Binky)
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