Max Cleland coming up on Hardball: Bush's AWOL = Max's Revenge

[blm]

Coming up now.

Max hitting him on every aspect.

Military doesn't just burn things. Getting specific.

[Catch22Dem]

1. Watching...

Thanks

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4. Now hitting him with military terms for papers that vets can relate to.

Bush has officially lost the military vote, imo.

[Catch22Dem]

7. Yup

I got my DD-214 sitting in my file cabinet. I know what the fuck it is, and I know * is a POS. You sir, are correct. Please claim your prize. ;)

[Catch22Dem]

2. Mathews says...

"He should have some pay-stubs to show for it..."

[Catch22Dem]

3. Matthews says...

"I'm the same age as the president. I knew what the guard was, it was a rich kid's way of getting out of the war."

Fucking nailing * to the wall!!!

[eileen_d]

5. Thanks - I was just about to kick this thread

I'm not watching so it's good to hear that Bush is being excoriated. (I love that word!)

[BootinUp]

9. how about eviscerate?

That's a good one too.

To remove the entrails of; disembowel.
To take away a vital or essential part of: a compromise that eviscerated the proposed bill

[eileen_d]

17. It's good, but I don't like the "entrails" part

Bush can keep his entrails. Just send him back to Crawford! ;)

Then again, here are the dictionary definitions of excoriate:
1) To tear or wear off the skin of. (eeeewwwww! gross!)
2) To censure strongly; denounce. (that's what i'm talking about!)

[Catch22Dem]

12. It was good to see

I can honestly say, "Tweety" made absolutely no excuses for Bush. He even said, "the media wants to know where he was..."

It was a thing of beauty!

[lastknowngood]

6. He got the huma humas what a great line

n/t

[RummyTheDummy]

8. Cleland is awesome.....

Totally savaging *. I can hardly believe this is being talked about -- finally -- on the scale that it should be talked about.

* was a deserter. Plain and simple.

I also like Cleland's line about how a number of those in SE Asia would have loved to have worked something out with the military to come back to the states.

That's a grand slam home run of a line.

[slor]

10. MY MAN MAX!!!!!!!

He just framed the argument the right way! The focus should be HOW did you get this plush assignment and also get to LEAVE early during a friggin' WAR!!!!!

[countmyvote4real]

11. That was wonderful. Cleland is the perfect guy to speak on this.

Even Tweety was behaved.

[berner59]

15. I love him!!!

Boy can he nail it or what??? "Last resort war"...if you had guys who had actually been to war...

These are the voices that will resonate...

[blm]

18. Cleland has been on the campaign trail for months hammering Bush on this.

He speaks to vets all over the country about it. This is why vets came out so big for Kerry in Iowa and NH and other states.

Cleland took them to school and told them the story about Bush's AWOL record.

I first heard him talk about it last Sept. in SC.

Vets are pissed and the media is just playing catch up.

[Catch22Dem]

13. Go Chris

Now he's showing the fmr. Asst. Sec. of Def. saying the intelligence proves this was a war of choice.

[Fenris]

14. CLELAND FOR F'ING V.P.

That. Was. Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NNN0LHI]

16. Max rang him up. Called Bush everything but a yellow-bellied coward n/t

[Dudley_DUright]

19. Max is a class act

I got to meet him in person a few years ago when he came to my university to give the keynote a our model senate event (he is also an alum of my university). He is doing a great job taking it to AWOL boy. He would make a great VP or Sec. of Defense.

[knight_of_the_star]

20. Nice!!!

Bush had it coming after he helped Chambliss steal Max's seat.

Go Mad Max!!!

[TennesseeWalker]

21. Office of Special Plans just mentioned.

Rumsfeld's "Little Shop of Horrors". Yay for Matthews's coming to his senses.

[Catch22Dem]

22. Damn, just when you thought it was over

Chris hammers at it again. Asks David Gregory if this story has legs. Gregory says AWOL isn't a term in the Guard. Now he's asking Laura Ingraham. She's just CRYING about it. She's saying "others" left the country and now the Democrats want to make an issue of Bush's service in Vietnam.

Matthews says, "no it's not because Bush didn't serve in Vietnam!"

OMFG!!!!!

[ronnykmarshall]

23. What's happened to Tweety?

Ball implants?

[eileen_d]

24. LOL, truly that is the only believable answer.

Or maybe he started eating his vegetables or something.

[TennesseeWalker]

25. His ratings were tanking.

Everybody goes home when they're hurting. He was a Tip O'Neil guy...he belongs with the left of center folks. Welcome home, Buddy! Keep telling the truth, and you'll be all right. :)

[LandOLincoln]

28. Nah, osmosis--from hangin around Wes Clark. ;-)

[homelandpunk]

34. fuck tweety. When is he gona apologize for sucking *'s dick for the last 3

goddamn miserable years on his show? When is he gonna turn red with embarrasment for jacking off while Bush landed on the carrier? Fuck tweety.

[Lugnut]

35. Nah!

Tweety is a political windsock.

[Catch22Dem]

26. HAHAHAHA - Gregory says...

Bush showed he can take the tough questions for an hour.

WHAT? What interview was he watching?

[TennesseeWalker]

27. Yuk.

He didn't watch the same show I did. French appeasement? LOL

[Catch22Dem]

29. Chris says, "Where's the accountability here?"

"Do any of these guys do anything wrong?"

How awesome is that?

[DemBones DemBones]

30. Wow! I will be watching this

in a couple of hours when it reruns. Sorry I missed it the first time but I was offline and didn't see the heads up.

Max Cleland :yourock:

Max was my senator and there was an infestation of GOP big guns (Bush, Cheney, Poppy Bush, Laura Bush) here campaigning for that sleaze Saxby Chambliss (not able to serve during Viet Nam due to a bad knee, which is now much better -- he's a runner.) (And I think they still had to rig the machines to get Chambliss in.)

Chickenhawk Chambliss, backed by chickenhawks like Bush and Cheney (and, worse, by Poppy, who actually served in combat) had the gall to question Cleland's patriotism. If that's not lower than a snake's belly, I don't know what is. I will never forget that and I will damn sure never vote for Chambliss.

[MAlibdem]

31. Anyone consider why Cleland isn't running for the opening Senate seat inGA

I don't know much about GA politics, maybe the rethugs savaged his reputation there, but after stumping for Kerry on the campaign trail, a coattail victory should be easy.

But, as far as I know, he isn't running.

Is he holding out for VP?

[BootinUp]

33. I've only been here a few years

in GA

but in 2000 it was like 60% for Bush. Didn't pay too much attention to the Cleland loss. My guess is that it would be hard for him to win again in GA, the Repukes are pretty strong here right now.

[oasis]

37. Georgia has Ralph Reed and 23,000 voting machines which are 100% Diebold.

[jean]

32. I'll have to watch the replay to see the others

but just watched Nomad559's video here which features Max and Tweety.

Isn't David Gregory the lame reporter who couldn't get * to answer even the simplest question while they were in that restaurant a while ago (New Mexico? - where * didn't leave a tip and gave everyone a lecture on the economy?

[LandOLincoln]

36. Roswell.