OT Lies, liars and SF-180

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:16:36 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

The Times reports today that T. Boone Pickens, the Texas
billionaire who bankrolled the Swiftboaters has welshed
on his offer to pay anyone a million dollars if they could
prove the Swiftboaters were liars. John Kerry signed a
SF-180 which allowed the release of all his military records
and a group of veterans who served with Kerry used those
records and sworn affidavits to document ten lies. But
Pickens refuses to pay. No surprise there, if there's one
thing we know about the Swiftboaters it's that they're liars.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2...-says-no-deal/

So OK, that's history, fast forward to the present. I have
two related questions.

If John McCain's superior officers did not see him as qualified
to serve as a flag officer (Rear Admiral) why should the voters
see him as qualified to be Commander in Chief ? What did his
fellow officers know about this screwup of a cadet who finished
near the bottom of his class ? (As an aside, how does a screwup
like that get a plum assignment like flying planes off a carrier ?
Son and grandson of Admirals perhaps ?)

There is only one way to know why John McCain was never going to
be an Admiral and that is for John McCain to submit, as John Kerry
did, a SF-180 releasing all his military records in full. Why
won't he do that ?

And question number three, why isn't the media all over this like
stink on **** ?

Um, "the media" ought to "get involved" because one blog has alleged
that someone is not living up to what another blog (alleged by the first
blog to be merely "sympathetic" to the someone in question) claimed he
said he'd do? Ah, well, maybe "the media" are just too busy not being
all over Obama's well-documented personally-delivered promises covered
by "the media" that he'd stick to public funding and then, didn't live
up to those promises...like stink on ****...

....or maybe "the media" is just swamped...digging through the McCain
recipe files...

And, ahem, while it's otherwise known as "the voice of the right-wing,"
but you might wish to glance at this:

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/040...g,51276,1.html

and this:

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/052...g,64705,6.html


HTH,
R