August 30, 2004

Guilt Overcomes Texan

Last week the Austin for Kerry and Edwards website posted this video of Ben Barnes, former Lieutenant Governor of Texas explaining how he gave Shrub a free pass during the Viet Nam War (er, I mean police action). Here's an excerpt of what he said:

I got a young man named George W. Bush in the National Guard when I was Lt. Gov. of Texas and I’m not necessarily proud of that. But I did it. And I got a lot of other people into the National Guard because I thought that was what people should do, when you're in office you helped a lot of rich people. And I walked through the Vietnam Memorial the other day and I looked at the names of the people that died in Vietnam and I became more ashamed of myself than I have ever been because it was the worst thing that I did was that I helped a lot of wealthy supporters and a lot of people who had family names of importance get into the National Guard and I’m very sorry about that and I’m very ashamed and I apologize to you as voters of Texas.

Fun times in Texas these days!

Posted by Elizabeth at August 30, 2004 12:56 PM
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