Combat Blumenthal the Chameleon

American Thinker ^ | May 22, 2010 | Jeannie DeAngelis

[jazusamo]

The White House has publicly stated Connecticut chameleon Richard Blumenthal's Vietnam veteran pretense is no big deal.  For Democrats, the motto is, "Whatever it takes to get elected."  And if the victory vehicle includes stretching the truth, don't the ends justify the means?

Blumenthal... found himself on the defensive when the NY Times reported ... he had repeatedly claimed that he had served in Vietnam. Blumenthal was in the Marine Reserves during the Vietnam War, but did not serve in Vietnam. Blumenthal says he misspoke about his record unintentionally and that it happened only a few times out of hundreds of public appearances.

If Blumenthal was thinking on his feet, the attorney general should have feigned a head injury to explain poor memory and a shaky grip on the facts.

Unlike Blumenthal, President Obama has mastered the practice of false pretext. So it stands to reason, if charades work for Barry, camouflage should also work for other Democrats running for public office.

Barack pretended to be politically moderate, experienced, post racial, as well as the human embodiment of hope and change. So why shouldn't fellow Democrats follow the Leader's lead? Because Barry Soetoro, which is Obama's real name, has proven to be none of those things.

It works like this, politicians spend a season observing the American electorate and taking copious notes to determine what the public esteems, after which a false persona is fashioned upon the values observed.

Take for instance, as a precursor to seeking the Democrat nomination for President, Hillary Clinton moving to NY from Arkansas. Donning a Yankees cap and running for office in the Empire State, swearing the whole time to never run for higher office then, after becoming junior Senator, running for president. 

Or how about a closet Democrat from Pennsylvania running for Senate as a Republican and then governing like a Democrat? Then, when the state shifts left, changing parties in hopes of winning the next election.

In fact, if planning to run for President of the United States, there's even room for dodging Constitutional restraints, just hide your birth certificate and refuse to produce the original.

If biracial --procure minority votes by distancing yourself from familial, Caucasian heritage. Identify only with African roots and promote yourself as the first, Black, historic...whatever.

Obama was schooled in Indonesia, changed his birth name to an Islamic name then, for political expediency, joined a racist, anti-Semite church pretended to be Christian, ran for office, got elected, after which he never set foot in church again. So why can't "Nutmeg State" soldier Blumenthal pretend to have participated in combat with the Viet Cong?

Blumenthal impressed potential voters by pretending to be veteran because the attorney general knew Americans respect military service. The Vietnam War has emotional influence over baby boomers, so Richard chose Vietnam.

And what's the big deal anyway?  If double-dealing "happens only a few times," misspeaking "unintentionally" shouldn't be held against a potential candidate's character --just ask Barack, I mean Barry.

Obama aka Soetoro spokesperson Robert Gibbs, when asked about Blumenthal pretending to experience Apocalypse Now style combat in Vietnam, replied, "I have not heard anything from the (White House) political shop that would lead me to believe anything other than our continued support."

Maybe what the indomitable Gibbs meant to say was, "I have not heard anything from the White House that would lead me believe or recognize anything even remotely resembling the truth?"

[Farmer Dean]

Misspoke my ass.If you’ve been in a combat zone,you know it.If you’ve been hiding out in Washington,you know that too.Pretty hard to confuse the two areas of operation.

[Wings-n-Wind]

All Connecticutt FR friends and buds....

PLZ PLZ -- Do the rest of the nation a favor...
Y'all get rid of this clown....

Hey Race -- grab the flush handle...

PUL-L-L-L-L--LLL...

[jazusamo]

Well said, and anyone ever in the military knows it whether in combat or not.

[bigheadfred]

This is really the main problem, IMO.

“” The idea that calling someone stupid (if you yourself are smart) is the worst thing you can do is an exceedingly bad idea to disseminate throughout a culture. The result is that stupid people can do stupid things with impunity; that they can basically skate through life daring people to call them stupid, knowing that if smart people take the bait and do so, an even bigger reproach will be leveled at them by the rest of society. This creates a win-win situation for stupid people. In an argument, the dumber person always has the advantage of being able to present the smarter person with the Smarter-Than-Me Paradox, as follows:

“Either you’re not claiming to be smarter than I am, in which case I should not listen to you, since there’s no point in changing my mind to agree with someone who is no smarter than I am, or you are claiming to be smarter than I am, in which case I should not listen to you, since on principle I shouldn’t listen to someone who is so exceedingly conceited and cruel as to claim to be smarter than other people.”

As a result of this, the smarter person’s only recourse is to argue the position that they are both equally smart, but have had different experiences, and that this is why they disagree. The P.C. movement was largely based on this idea—so much so that its proponents began to actually accept as fact the idea that no-one is any smarter than anyone else. But this was a huge mistake. The result was the mainstream acceptance of the idea that all disagreement is based on experience, and no disagreement based on inequity of intellect, and because of this, it became impossible to ever get anyone to change their mind about anything. After all, why should they? An experience cannot be “right” or “wrong,” and so political and philosophical belief was demoted to the level of taste, no different from preferring one style of music over another. Many in our society are operating on the principle that calling someone stupid is a moral failing, but that being stupid is not one. This is extremely dangerous, considering the fact that all of history’s great evils—from the Crusades to the Salem Witch Trials to the Nazi Holocaust —have been perpetrated by stupid people who were basing their actions on ideas that smart people could easily have disproved.”

The only way Blumenthal, or Obama, etc. can be the smartest person in the room, is by being THE ONLY PERSON IN THE ROOM.

[Titus-Maximus]

The major hypocrisy has been their attack on Cheney’s deferments, calling him a chicken-hawk, as well as George Bush and Dan Quayle. Those never fought in combat, but they did not LIE about it. Blumenthal has to go.....he is a liar. We don’t need this dam cynicism anymore. Just get out Blumenthal or “Spitzer-lite” - we don’t need any more professional liars in Washington DC.

[Farmer Dean]

I can’t think of anything more repugnant to honorable people than being led or governed by liars.And this guy is a lying douche bag of a poser.

[jazusamo]

I love it, bhf, dead on the money!

[Mouton]

I thought the area around the Navy yard would compare favorably to most combat zones...sarcasm.

The guy is a scum bag liar, after that everything is conversation. There are just some things you do not lie about, and misspeak does not cover this one iota’s worth.

[wardaddy]

me too

did i ever tell ya’ll how I killed 200 gooks with my Red Ryder while on patrol in the Au Shau valley at aged 12?

or later at aged 15 with the IDF in Yom Kippur I had Arafat’s Mercedes in my gunsights on the West Bank and Moshe Dayan himself called me off at the least minute?

then it was on to Rhodesia where I joined Roland and the Selous Scouts to fight terrs...aged 16

I got more...

me and Blumenthal....warriors from birth.

..but I may have misspoke...

[four more in O 4]

not mis-spoke, mis-remembered. ie: lied.

I was in the service DURING the Gulf War, I do not tell people I was in the Gulf War. There is one hell of a big difference.

He is a liar for the worst reasons, he demeans his ACTUAL service and by doing so denigrates every name on the Memorial.

he is a jack off.

[at bay]

I believe, with all due respect, you owe douche bags, although admittedly inanimate objects, an apology.

The man is the scum of the earth.

[Farmer Dean]

I’m willing to amend my comment,and will now refer to him as a steaming pantload.