I’ve avoided the gory details of the Swift Vets\/TNG charges for the reasons I’ve explained below; I simply assume that Bush gamed the system both to get an assignment he wanted, and when he was done with it, to get out of doing what he didn’t want to do, and that Kerry gamed the system – possibly to get some of his medals, certainly to shorten his stay in Vietnam and to shorten his active duty so he could run for office.<\/p>\n
But the latest batch of documents about Bush’s service<\/a> – and the charges being made that they were forged<\/a> – piqued my interest, because the controversy that immediately circulated around them was just so Hollywood. The documents, according to certain commentators, show the characteristics of having been done with a word processor, not a typewriter. How could the press not catch something so obvious? I was loving it as just something out of a bad thriller, so I had to go check them out myself.My cynicism about the whole thing was very strong, until I saw the August 18th memo<\/a>, and the superscript ‘th<\/sup>‘ on the 147th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n I used a Selectric for a long time, and can’t remember that<\/b> key. Maybe someone else can?<\/p>\n But somehow, some of the accounts are suggesting that the White House itself released these documents?<\/p>\n Is anyone else as puzzled about this as I am? I’m getting some popcorn, it’s going to be an interesting day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The latest batch of documents about Bush’s service – and the charges that they were forged – are making for an interesting day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}