Calhoun is LYING like Bush does

[Atman]

This guy is the ONE person claiming he saw Bush in Ala. He is on CNN now, talking about his recollections...he recalls Bush "signing in" and "signing out" every day for months.

Signing in. Signing out. As in signing your name. On paper.

When asked by Bill Hemmer why only he remembers, Calhoun suddenly looks off camera, and cannot look into the camera as he begins to answer. His lie "tell?" I wonder how much of the $200,000,000 campaign war chest Calhoun gets for whoring himself out?

[Cooley Hurd]

1. He claims that Bush "signed in" on a sheet...

Where's that sheet, Calhoun?

He also said "several" have come forth to say they also saw Bush in the Alabama ANG. Several? You're the only one that's claimed to have seen Bush. And why are your dates in direct conflict with the documents the WH has released?

'Cause you're a LIAR!!!

[Walt Starr]

2. The AWOL story is dead

Move on. We've been watching this crap for three years now. Media manipulation has completely killed the story. Unless you have access of pictures of the unit with no Bush, there's no story here any longer.

That's how this shit has gone for three years.

[Atman]

4. Move on? No.

That is the mantra the republicans are hoping we'll chant once again. That we'll "move on" if they just stonewall long enough. This goes directly to Bush's character, and further, to the character of the entire Bush family, and the philosophy of the entire Bush admin. The military documents EVERYTHING but Bush cannot find one piece of paper indicating he showed up for service. Now it appears he may have been doing community service. This is not a stain on a blue dress.

I will not Move On from ANYTHING illegal or untoward Bush has done, until he MOVES ON from the oval office.

[Philosophy]

3. If this were a court of law

Testimony that he saw someone sign a paper would be inadmissable, unless they could produce the paper.

[StopThief]

5. Ummmm. . . . . .

That would be incorrect. Anybody can testify to something they have personally witnessed. What he could not testify to would be if someone else said they saw Bush sign.

[central scrutinizer]

6. this guy appears to be lying

see http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/ for this excerpt:

Yesterday, though, there was a new development when one of the president's fellow Guardsmen, John B. Calhoun, came forward to say that he clearly remembered him showing up for his required drills in Alabama through the summer and fall of 1972.

"We didn't have the planes that he could fly," Calhoun told the Associated Press. "But he studied his manuals, he read flying safety regulations, accident reports -- things pilots do quite often when they are not getting ready to fly or if they don't have other duties."

Interestingly, though, as the Houston Chronicle notes this morning, the documents released Friday night show "Bush's transfer to the Alabama squadron wasn't approved until September 1972, months after Bush's presence as recalled by Calhoun."

Oops.