Richard Blumenthal Falsifies Vietnam Record
BY Herschel Smith
14 years, 7 months ago
As it is common news by now, I will only mention in passing that Richard Blumenthal has falsified his Vietnam record, alleging that he was there when he wasn’t. There is a current debate over whether the words “in” instead of “during” mean anything. Silly debate. It’s like saying something like this: “I recall serving as an engineering forensics expert at the time of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse …” The average listener takes it that I was a forensics expert studying the engineering disaster. One can have plausible deniability based on the poor and unclear construction of the sentence … but that’s the point, isn’t it?
He misled the public with plausible deniability, just as he intended. Do the people of Connecticut really want him as a Senator? Haven’t they had enough politics?
On May 19, 2010 at 7:39 am, jhstuart said:
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/05/blumenthals-apology-accompanied-by.html
This link further undermines Blumenthal’s credibility. Either he didn’t believe this poseur would be discovered or the victim of sloppy staff research.
On May 19, 2010 at 9:39 am, Warbucks said:
Sad. He had everything to be proud of and nothing to be ashamed of to begin with. Service is service.
Perhaps he, like many others of us, had chosen to work through the karma of learning humility in this life. We eventually work out our own punishments, do we not?
Apology accepted.
On May 19, 2010 at 9:57 am, Herschel Smith said:
Apologies offered when one has been caught are not sincere. The point is that he cannot be trusted. He played on an important sentiment to get votes and create an illusion, and that goes to his honor.
On May 19, 2010 at 3:34 pm, Warbucks said:
Yes. probably everyone agrees including me. I think the poor man is learning that very point many times over ….. in spades. But as a former Vietnam, in-country, Marine vet, I accept his apology and do not dismiss him from my table as unworthy. Nor do I plan to vote for him. He has made his own hell which he has to climb out of himself. But I accept his apology as the first step in his path to healing himself.