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"Lucy Ramirez" and Burkett's Sci Fi story about the documents

USA Confidential
The link above is worth reading to the end in that creepy "City Confidential" voice over. But USAToday, for once, is actually reporting on something, as silly as it may be. I feel sorry for Burkett in some ways -- he's a pathetic character. I feel more sorry for his wife -- "honey, we've lost it all" -- than him.

Some are giving this thing a "deep throat" quality that doesn't ring true because the existence of these memos, even if they were real, just doesn't matter -- just like Kerry's military service -- who cares? Let's just grant that both of these candidates are rich little boys who benefited from their family's monetary or political status.

When Kerry had enough video and medals to throw away, he applied for permission to leave Vietnam. Granted, three Purple Hearts and you're out. But after he came stateside, he again applied for permission to be relieved from desk duty before his service time was up (and, miraculously, that was granted too). Maybe he had is own campaign to work on. Don't you think his early release from desk duty took some string pulling?

But all this happened THIRTY YEARS AGO. Guess what? I'm resigned that the government is going to be run by people in power. Powerful people get strings pulled. Duh.

So what does this whole episode show us about either candidate? Well, one of them has spent four years working in the White House. The other? Who knows what Kerry will do? Let's look at his record in the Senate. There's no national media hype or See BS story about that.... Ah, sorry for the rant. Read the article, it's a hoot.

posted by Lori @ 1:16 PM