fortdixlover
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
Joined: 12 May 2004
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 Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:57 am Post subject: Durbin compares MoveOn's "Betray Us" to Swiftvets |
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Guys,
Durbin uses the Swiftvets like Hitler used Jews:
http://radioblogger.townhall.com/blog/g/1a79ce07-520b-4942-8194-d9afa469d7fd
| Quote: | Refreshingly, to Durbin's credit, he did say he doesn't agree with the characterization of General Petraeus by MoveOn.org a few times in here. This, of course, coming from the same Senator who compared our troops at Abu Ghraib to the Nazis, Pol Pot and the Soviet gulags.
But then the weasely lawyer side of Durbin kicked in. As a defense to why the Senate shouldn't be in the business of weighing in when a political organization steps in it, he compares the actions of MoveOn.org over the weekend in the New York Times to that of the Swift Boat Vets when they attacked the record of John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign, a ridiculous comparison to try and make.
The Swifties, themselves vets that served in Vietnam, went after claims made by politician and candidate John Kerry. That's certainly their prerogative. But I do not believe they were major donors to all quarters in the Republican Party, the way MoveOn.org has spent money on Democratic candidates at all levels of government. The Swifties didn't like John Kerry, and their mission was to defeat John Kerry for president, a mission that was accomplished.
Durbin decried that no Republican Senator weighed in during the attack on Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign as a defense why the Democrats shouldn't be required to vote today to renounce MoveOn.org. Does he not see the difference between fellow vets going after a political candidate, and an organization that has claimed they own the Democratic Party, they've bought it, that has not attacked a political candidate, but slandered the top General in Iraq as a traitor, a General that was unanimously confirmed by the Senate to implement the very plan that he is now reporting on? General Petraeus is not running for office. He's conducting a war. John Kerry wanted to be president.
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The Dems are our enemies, and enemies of the American people, far more so than were the N. Vietnamese. Sorry to say this, but it is true.
-- FDL
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