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Thinking About Max on Veterans Day
Taylor Marsh —
... , his Democratic opponent, served during Vietnam. Saxby Chambliss
pulled a Rush-Karl Rove-Dick Cheney, receiving 6 deferments for a bad knee.
Now, you don’t have to serve in the military to do a good job in Congress. But
in order to hold faith with veterans you should at the very least have their
best interest at heart. Chambliss does not. He also doesn’t respect them. Just look at his voting record. Look at the kind of campaign he once ran against Max. ...
Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars —
In One Ear… Out the Other: Bush secretly gave banks a $140 billion tax windfall
Wired: Bush spy revelations anticipated when Obama is sworn in
Brad DeLong: On Larry Summers...
Senate Guru: Looking at GA-Sen through the prism of Veterans Day. Meanwhile, in other still undecided Senate races
Endless Simmer: White House Guessing Game: Who will cook for Barack??
ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: An increasingly clueless 'Dean'...NPR softballs for a liar...Oh look ...
GA-Sen: Veterans' Day
Daily Kos —
... As Senate Guru notes, Chambliss not only received six deferments himself, but has been a shaky vote on veterans' issues during his entire term in the Senate. ...
How Does He Sleep at Night?
If I Ran the Zoo —
... the smear job worked, and Chambliss won the race. Here's what John McCain said about Chambliss' sleazy tactics at the time: "I'd never seen anything like that ad," McCain told CNN in 2003. "Putting pictures of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden next to the picture of a man who left three limbs on the battlefield -- it's worse than disgraceful. It's reprehensible." Yet McCain was in Georgia yesterday campaigning for Chambliss, a man who avoided military service (those bad knees haven't slowed him down on the golf course, though), ...
