Lie Your Way Into Political Office!

[jeebus]

WARNING - I'm about to go on a rant about something that really pisses me off..

WASHINGTON - Democrats stuck by Richard Blumenthal as their choice to fill Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd's seat Tuesday despite his false claims to having served in the Vietnam War.

Blumenthal said Tuesday he regretted "a few misplaced words" exaggerating his military service.

"On a few occasions, I have misspoken about my service and I regret that. I take full responsibility," he said, surrounded by friendly veterans at a VFW hall in West Hartford.

"But I will not allow anyone to take a few misplaced words and impugn my record of service to our country," Blumenthal added while making no apologies.

From 1970 to 1976, Blumenthal did serve in the Marine Corps Reserve after graduating from boot camp at Parris Island, S.C. However, he never served overseas. From 1965 to 1970, he received five military draft deferments.

Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...#ixzz0oNJhaf9r

What a freakin' coward and a snake. This would be NO different than 20-30 years from now me lying and saying I was "in Afghanistan" when I was still in the reserves stateside in 2002. Someone needs to go after this guy for lying about his military record in a public forum for personal gain. I wonder how many times he's lied about being a Marine in Vietnam. I wonder how many times when told "thank you" for what he did over there he didn't have the stones to correct that person. I wonder how many times he's told stories about things he's never seen, never experienced, nor will ever understand. Lies on top of lies.

Anyway, here's the video of him lying like a coward for personal gain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3KgsgRfjhQ

He should have said: "..when I served DURING the Vietnam war." That is the ONLY acceptable form of the statement. Disgusting.

Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...#ixzz0oNJhaf9r

The media seems to feel the same:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEUc6xd4aEw

Hell, even Chris Matthews is appalled:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH1arXm85L4

When you're a veteran and you have any sense of pride and honor, you KNOW what you can say and what you can not say. Anytime I'm around guys that served active duty, I shut up - because they did it and I didn't. Anytime I'm around guys that deployed, I shut up - because they did and I didn't. I never say Army without saying "reserves" immediately following it and I never lie about my service because you NEVER know who's listening, and in my opinion, taking credit for the risk and sacrifice of others is one of the most cowardly things you can do.

Okay, rant over.

[stevenallenbarnard]

Isn't it illegal to lie about being in the military? I agree, he's immediatly uncredibeble and the Dems should have tossed him to the wolves.

[myjohnson]

I didn't know there was any other way to get into political office.

[jeebus]

Isn't it illegal to lie about being in the military? I agree, he's immediatly uncredibeble and the Dems should have tossed him to the wolves.

I thought it was. I know there are some cavaets to it though. You see stories everyone once in a while about some turd posing as a Medal of Honor recipient or something getting busted.

[Delock]

And the Repulican do it all day and you don't rant about them!

[Darbex]

Sheila Jackson Lee is the biggest liar of them all and she doesnt even know how to spell or write a speech.

[jeebus]

And the Repulican do it all day and you don't rant about them!

I'm speaking on military service. Which republicans have lied and been exposed about their military service?

[jeebus]

Still more..

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/default/article/Critics-weigh-Blumenthal-s-words-491848.php

During a May 18, 2009, military board tribute to veterans in Shelton, Blumenthal was quoted by the Connecticut Post as saying, "When we returned from Vietnam, I remember the taunts, the verbal and even physical abuse we encountered."

A year later at a Stratford Memorial Day event covered by the Post, Blumenthal dropped the "we" reference but didn't go out of his way to say that he never went to Vietnam.

Blumenthal's critics claim that the Democrat's veiled references to serving in Vietnam, which the candidate himself qualified as rare and unintentional misstatements but now number at least five, establish a pattern of duplicity that calls his credibility into question.

"At one point I wanted to go up to him a couple of years ago and say, 'Hey, you're giving the impression you were on the battlefield," said former U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., "I thought that might come back to bite him."

Characterizing him as a friend of "high integrity," Shays said Blumenthal made it clear earlier in his career that he served in the Marine Corps Reserve during the Vietnam era but not in the war itself.

"He evolved from being pretty clear about his service to being somewhat nebulous about it and really giving a false impression about his service," Shays said.

[Delock]

Sheila Jackson Lee is the biggest liar of them all and she doesnt even know how to spell or write a speech.

Really! Proof or is this taking up for your party with Fox tactics?

[Darbex]

Actually go look up her speech it was leaked by some of her staff. And no not fox tactics she is just a bold face liar in her press conference and she just like Sharpton and others only talk about racism when its against blacks but never anyone else.

[jeebus]

Actually go look up her speech it was leaked by some of her staff. And no not fox tactics she is just a bold face liar in her press conference and she just like Sharpton and others only talk about racism when its against blacks but never anyone else.

This is from KPRC: http://www.click2houston.com/news/22352423/detail.html

Thousands packed the Staples Center for the Michael Jackson memorial. There were fans, family, pop stars and politician Shelia Jackson Lee.

"This resolution 600 claims Michael Jackson a world humanitarian," Jackson Lee said at the memorial.

Holding the framed resolution, she seemed to be there on congressional business. So we asked her what you asked us.

"Who paid for that trip for you to go to that memorial service?" asked KPRC Local 2 anchor Joel Eisenbaum.

"Well uh ... that um ... those resources are … resources that I have and therefore ... they are in a way that does not interfere with anything that has to do with serving the United States Congress," replied Jackson Lee in a live interview last July.

"Understood," said Eisenbaum. "So, public funds?"

We found no mention of a trip to LA in the congresswoman's campaign contribution reports that came out in October.


The next filing is what's called the "Statement of Disbursements." Every Congress member must report how they spend their allowance every quarter. When we didn't find any trips to LA reported under travel, we called the congresswoman's office again.


This time eight days after we asked the question, her communications director e-mailed us a statement that read in part, "I paid for all of my expenses with my own personal funds."


"If she did pay for it with her own money, why the closed doors?" asked Trent Seibert, director Texas Watchdog. "In the end, it turns out she did pay for it out of her own pocketbook. If that's the case, why would you even try to hide the truth? Why hide the truth when the truth would serve you?"


We had another question. For every filing period leading up to the time of the Michael Jackson memorial, Jackson Lee always listed travel by the date she flew, where she went and how much she paid for the ticket.


But beginning with the third quarter of 2009, all travel is listed simply as "commercial transportation." We can't tell where or when she went or how she got there.


Jackson Lee is not alone. We did some checking and discovered the Chief Administrative Officer of the House changed the way it discloses travel for all members of Congress. A spokesman told Davis that coding all travel simply "commercial transportation" is more streamlined and an improvement in the reporting.


Seibert disagrees.


"Why would you make it more vague? I have no idea. The only reason I can think of is to make it less accessible, less readable for taxpayers and voters," he said. "For a Congress that's talking more and more about open government, this is the opposite way. This is a 180."


The Congresswoman also told us that she thought she had answered our question back when we asked it last summer.

The last line is the best part.

Obviously nothing can be proven, but the evidence leans to her spending public money, then only when confronted did she back track, stall, and then clean up the mess.

[myjohnson]

Busted.

lol.

[stevenallenbarnard]

came across this.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/22/mcmahon-named-in-wwe-lawsuit/?fbid=0_7BVWqOZRf#more-110024

it doesn't really contribute much but it does pertain a little bit about the candidate in question