more embarrassment...

[winterbadger]

buried right at the back of the Post's latest article on attempts to prove the president successfully avoided service in Vietnam by protecting Texas (or was it Alabama) from foes foreign and domestic:

Bill Burkett, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Texas National Guard, said in an interview with The Washington Post this week that he overheard a speakerphone call about Bush's National Guard file in 1997, when Bush was Texas governor. Burkett said he was in a National Guard office when he overheard Joseph M. Allbaugh, then Bush's chief of staff, tell an officer in reference to Bush's military file that he "needed to make sure there was nothing to embarrass the governor."

Burkett said he later witnessed some items from Bush's file in the trash. Bush officials and Allbaugh denied these allegations. Bartlett called them "outrageous."

Where, oh, where are the people who were so outraged at Bill Clinton for being a pot-smoking, draft-dodging Rhodes scholar when it come to this coke-sniffing, draft-dodging, record-trashing inarticulate commander in chief?

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Where, oh, where are the people who were so outraged at Bill Clinton for being a pot-smoking, draft-dodging Rhodes scholar when it come to this coke-sniffing, draft-dodging, record-trashing inarticulate commander in chief?

I keep thinking I *ought* to be able to come up with a light-hearted answer that will make us laugh about all this, if only for a few minutes, but no success so far. At least, I can't laugh at "out trashing the environment", "out bashing {pick a minority/orientation/religion}", etc.

I don't know how to converse constructively on the subject with people who can look at our acting Resident and not see the smugness that leaps out at me. Blech.