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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
1) The AWOL/Desertion/Leave/Whatever issue was already vetted in 2000 and no one really cared.
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Maybe. I'm glad you're in touch with your principles.
eta: Vetted, but not fully vetted, since it appears that the White House keeps lying about having released all the documents. It was the cover-up that screwed Nixon and Clinton.
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2) However, these forged documents are now going to cause John Q. Public to question these AWOL claims.
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Just like all of the problems with the Swifties' stories -- the internal inconsistencies, the changed stories, and so on -- caused John Q. Public to question their claims, eliminating the problem for Bush.
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3) Via mere guilt by association, the Kerry campaign is going to get reamed on this one.
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Quite right, except that you need to replace "the Kerry campaign" with "CBS."
Not clear to me that the Kerry campaign wants this to be the story. As I said, it's getting the way of what they want to say.
