Richard Blumenthal who is running for Chris Dodd’s seat in Connecticut apparently embellished his service record:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/nyregion/18blumenthal.html?hp=&pagewanted=all
I hate to say it, but in a lot of ways this is worse than what Bush did. Yeah Bush got a coveted slot in the Air National Guard, but at least he never tried to give the impression that he was actually over in Vietnam.
I saw this yesterday and I love the headline: “Candidate’s Words on Vietnam Service Differ From History”
Uh, shouldn’t that be, “Candidate Lied”?
This isn’t even on the map, frankly. GWB never lied about where he served. Blumenthal’s claims are disgusting.
Yea. Bush at least was an honest chicken-hawk.
Blumenthal can just fold his career up until it’s all corners and then stick it where the sun don’t shine.
I don’t have any heartburn about his saying he’s a Vietnam-era veteran. He is.
He cannot say he’s a Vietnam War veteran. That’s a lie.
And bizarre. Harvard undergrad, Yale law school, a fellowship at Cambridge, clerking for the Supreme Court, and an aide in the Nixon White House. All in addition to his former and current positions in the Connecticut state House, Senate, and AG’s office respectively. Did he really feel like he had to make up some imaginary war service to be considered qualified for higher office?
Yeah, this guy is scrod.
I was watching a piece on this on MSNBC this morning and apparently (and I could be wrong here) but he didn’t originate the lie; he just never corrected anyone when they identified him as a Viet Nam vet. Then after the fact, once the non-denials got out of hand, he latched onto it like a barnacle and couldn’t let go – ultimately repeating the lie bald-facedly. Now he’s up to his spasming sphincter in it and there’s no going back.
He also apparently lied about being on the Harvard swim team.
Yeah, that’s pretty damned scummy. He must have known that in this age, lies like this can’t stay unresearched.
And dammit, now we get to listen to the Right-wing crow about how this “proves” that *all *Democrats are liars.
There you go. Stupid Tab. 
Yes, that is weird. I just don’t get it when people embellish their resumes in such an easily-disprovable way. To paraphrase Aziz Ansari, “You’re running for motherfuckin’ United States Senate, you don’t think we’re going to check that shit?”
Well, maybe he thought he had to try a big lie, one that anyone could see was a lie, and then see if he could get people to either believe the big lie, rabidly defend him if he was “their guy”, ignore the lie, or just not care that he lied because he is still “doing good”.
I mean, isnt that how all the “real politicans” operate these days? He just wanted to see if he could actually run with the big dogs.
Ah ha!
This proves all Democrats are liars!
Not according to the linked article:
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Why is Kerry in the news again? I didn’t think he had to run for reelection until 2014.
I keed. 
I haven’t seen what MSNBC is reporting. If they found evidence for that it might be true, but the Times story makes it sound like he spent years carefully implying he’d served in Vietnam by saying using the truth about his service to create a false impression. And more recently he screwed it up by stating flat-out that he was in Vietnam.x
You can’t really take his word for it at this point.
We tolerate so much bullshit from our politicians, it’s nice to see that there’s at least one lie in America that isn’t forgiven.
You can’t prove Blumenthal was born in Kenya!
From the Times article:
*"In an interview, Jean Risley, the chairwoman of the Connecticut Vietnam Veterans Memorial Inc., recalled listening to an emotional Mr. Blumenthal offering remarks at the dedication of the memorial. She remembered him describing the indignities that he and other veterans faced when they returned from Vietnam.
“It was a sad moment,” she recalled. “He said, ‘When we came back, we were spat on; we couldn’t wear our uniforms.’ It looked like he was sad to me when he said it.”*
Well, the quote doesn’t have him specifically saying “When we came back from Vietnam”.
Maybe he meant he and fellow reserve officers were spat on when they came back from the Toys for Tots drive in Washington (sometimes the kiddies can be really mean if you give them some piece of Hasbro junk).
Five deferments. Apparently he, like Dick Cheney, had better things to do than serve his country.
Apparently so astonished that he was unable to pick up a phone and tell Slate and the Hartford Courant he wasn’t actually on the swim team at Harvard.
Don’t bother defending him. It just makes you look bad.
This isn’t quite as embarrassing as the outing self-hating-gay right-wingers, but it’s pretty bad.