For 'gutter politics,' look to the Bushies
Readers can decide for themselves whether the Democrats are engaging in "gutter politics" by pushing hard on President Bush's Vietnam-era service, or lack thereof, in the National Guard. The story about Bush peeves me a little; I enlisted in the Army and did my time in Vietnam, not carrying an M-16 but not safely in Saigon either. Almost four years of my life were devoted to service, and Bush apparently couldn't be bothered to show up for some of the weekends he promised to serve.
But what really gets my goat is political operatives in Bush's White House making the "gutter" charge. Whether or not you think the accusation is true, it takes a lot of gall for this group to make it.
Take what they did to Max Cleland, for example.
But what really gets my goat is political operatives in Bush's White House making the "gutter" charge. Whether or not you think the accusation is true, it takes a lot of gall for this group to make it.
Take what they did to Max Cleland, for example.
There's more: the new republican story about John Kerry's service in Vietnam, and "the granddaddy of them all" : Bush's gutter job on Sen. John McCain in the South Carolina primary of 2000.
- - Jim Boyd, the Star Tribune.
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