It turns out there are competent newsfolk.
James Moore, a Texas author, reports in a forthcoming book that George W. Bush jumped a line of 500 applicants waiting to join the Texas Air National Guard in 1968.
Moore says he was asssigned to an outfit "...filled with the progeny of the wealthy and politically influential."
This is from a column by Bob Herbert in today's New York Times.
There's more. It suggests that W. didn't take his Guard duties all that seriously. I see no need to pile more evidence, however, on the pyre.
It's perfectly clear that President George W. Bush ducked into the Guard to duck out of the Vietnam War at its height.
Which may have had something to do with the fact that Americans were dying there.
PS And the Republicans chose him over John McCain. (Here, imagine you are watching me shake my head. There is bewilderment in my face and more than a touch of sadness.)
Posted by Arthur Alpert at February 13, 2004 12:39 PM