Max Cleland's revenge: John Kerry

[rumguy]

We all know Max was smeared. He was compared to Osoma and called a traitor. We all know who was behind this: chickenhawks...disgusting.

Rethugs cheered while this happened. Sick.

Max Cleland is supporting John Kerry. In fact, he is campaigning for John Kerry and is with him much of time.

Will 2004 be his revenge? God, I hope so.

"John Kerry kept a bodyguard beside him at his town meeting in Somersworth, a working-class hamlet near the Maine border, two days before the primary. At least it appeared he had: The granite-jawed, gimlet-eyed face beneath the VFW hat festooned with unit badges looked ready in an instant to swing a mean left hook. But Kerry's shadow man had only one arm and no legs. It was Max Cleland, former senator from Georgia, triply maimed by combat wounds in Vietnam. From his wheelchair at Kerry's side throughout the ninety-minute question-and-answer session, Cleland maintained the unblinking gaze of a combat soldier on night watch--a silent dare to any antagonist."

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040216&s=shapiro

[MercutioATC]

1. Funny how he endorses a guy who voted for the legislation that got him

ousted...

[DemBones DemBones]

3. Say what? Cleland was defeated by a sleazoid Republican

after G W Bush, George H W Bush, Laura Bush, and Dick Cheney all came down to Georgia to campaign for the sleazoid (Chambliss.) Dubya and Dick made at least two trips each to Georgia, IIRC. Chambliss had the gall to imply Max wasn't patriotic enough, with TV ads showing Osama morphing into Max. Chambliss is, of course, a chickenhawk.

2002 was also the year Georgia went to computer voting statewide, and both our Democratic governor and Senator Cleland were defeated. Honest election?

[MercutioATC]

4. Yes, and they painted him as "non-patriotic" despite the fact that he lost

an arm and both legs in Vietnam. One of the ways they supported this was his refusal to support the Patriot Act.

[sandnsea]

5. Homeland Security

They beat him up over Homeland Security.

[MercutioATC]

6. Which was PART of the Patriot Act.

Look, I know how they attacked him. I just find it odd that he's support a man who voted for legislation that he (Cleland) didn't support.

[Doomsayer13]

7. As I recall

the PATRIOT act and Homeland Security were voted on seperately. Both Kerry and Cleland voted for the PATRIOT act initially after 9-11, and both Kerry and Cleland opposed attempts to stymie collective bargaining on the Homland Security bill which is what the right used to smear Cleland as "unpatriotic".

[yowzayowzayowza]

11. Then I suggest...

You continue paying attention. Ya might jus learn something.

[Rowdyboy]

8. Max Clelland is a straight up guy

Your criticizm and smarmy attack are over the top. He deserves better for his service and he's old enough (and politically astute enough) to make up his mind with no help from anyone.

John Kerry is neither my first or second choice but I respect him more because Clelland knows AND supports him.

[David Dunham]

2. Max Is a Great Guy

[WiseMen]

20. Say that again.

[krkaufman]

9. Yeah, but I didn't do anything to Max Cleland?!

Why do I have to suffer, too?

[justsam]

10. Max Cleland brought

up Bushs service record on the Bill Marah show last night so there may be a lot more said about Bush being AWOL this week

[blm]

12. Max Cleland's Revenge Tour 2004.

Max has been FIERCE on the campaign trail. He beats Bush with the AWOLSTICK at every appearance.

[dolstein]

13. With friends like Max Cleland, who needs enemies?

Sorry, but if Max Cleland's "revenge" for his humiliating loss in 2002 is foisting upon the Democratic Party someone as unelectable as John Kerry, I say no thanks.

[Meldread]

14. ...and Kerry is about to join Max.

I find it funny that people think Kerry is immune to the same attacks that were launched on Max. Especially seeing as how Max lost an arm and both his legs -- Kerry is a push over compared to that.

Furthermore I find it ironic that Max would support someone who did the same thing to Howard Dean.

[blm]

17. So you say. But your charge has no basis in reality.

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[Meldread]

18. Really?

Ask Max Cleland if he thought he'd be attacked the way he was. You're in for the shock of your life if you don't think Rove is going to chew Kerry up and spit him back out.

[blm]

21. The country didn't know about was happening to Max in Georgia.

There was the SNIPER STORY going on at the time. Rove could not have succeeded with his trick at the time if the public knew about it.

They are just learning of what happened in every veterans' group Cleland speaks to.

Why be skittish about something where we hold the DEFINITE edge over Bush? We're going to use what happened to Max as an attack against the CHARACTER of the GOP chickenhawks. Think about the speeches at the convention.

[slinkerwink]

15. too bad Cleland's revenge won't come true when Bush beats Kerry

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[rumguy]

19. I'm sorry, but right now his chances look better than Dean's...