Bob Kerrey and Max Cleland Call for Karl Rove's Resignation

U.S. Newswire ^ | September 1, 2004 | Kerry/Edwards 2004

[Fedora]

The media seems to have a blackout policy on this issue.

BTW I checked out Nicosia's book again and there's some more on Cleland. Before meeting Jimmy Carter, he'd been close to left-wing Senator Alan Cranston (mentioned in my last post). In 1969 Cleland testified to a subcommittee Cranston sat on which also heard testimony from Robert Jay Lifton, a participant in the CCI/VVAW Winter Soldier investigation. Later Cranston encouraged Carter to place Cleland in charge of the VA.

[Deb]

Anyone who even passed Cranston in the hall was a Commie.

Did you happen to see any of the 9/11 Commission hearings when Cleland was a member? He was more than a disgrace. Stinking drunk, hanging out of his wheelchair and screaming against GW at every session. Unbelievable.

[Fedora]

Anyone who even passed Cranston in the hall was a Commie.

ROFL! Yep, Cranston was one of the "usual suspects". Incidentally he got his start in government in the Office of War Information, which was riddled with Soviet agents (The Secret World of American Communism, by Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov: "The party managed to penetrate both the Office of Secret Services (OSS) and the Office of War Information (OWI), where, according to party leader Eugene Dennis, it played a key role in shaping policy..."), under Archibald MacLeish, whose name shows up a lot in this context (Archibald MacLeish: "MacLeish's FBI file eventually ran to six hundred pages, longer than any other writer in the United States. . .In October 1952 Joseph McCarthy claimed that MacLeish had belonged to more Communist front organizations than any man he had investigated."):

Alan Cranston Interview: Conversations with History; Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

During the war you worked for the government under Archibald McLeish?

Yes, I did.

Tell us about that. It was bringing groups into an understanding of the American story, is that right?

I had worked for a little while before the war began, after I came back to America, for an organization called Common Council for American Unity that was trying to help immigrants adjust to American life, and America to adjust to having immigrants among us. So I was working with German Americans, Italian Americans, Polish Americans, everything you could think of. When the war began, President Roosevelt appointed Archibald McLeish to head the Office of Facts and Figures, which was soon replaced by something headed by a famous commentator of those days, Elmer Davis, called the Office of War Information. I was given the responsibility of running the foreign language division which had the task of explaining how price control worked, how the draft worked and so forth, in foreign languages via press or radio to foreign language speaking groups.

I followed the 9/11 hearings mostly in transcript, so I missed Cleland's performance. Sounds like him, though.

[CWOJackson]

"Bob Kerrey and Max Cleland Call for Karl Rove's Resignation"

Must be Rove's birthday for them to send a message bound to make him smile.

[Texasforever]

These damn wimps actually believe that crossing their little arms, patting their little feet indignantly and sticking their little tongues out is being "tough". God the entire democrat party is a bunch of 12 year old girls.

[Deb]

They actually only have one foot between them.