former Texas lt. governor ashamed, apologetic

[winterbadger]

garked from motherall

In a video originally posted on the Web by a pro-Kerry organization in Austin, Texas, Ben Barnes, a former lieutenant governor of Texas, apologized for his role in getting a young George W. Bush into the Texas Air National Guard while young men who were not from prominent or wealthy families "died in Vietnam."

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/27/barnes/index.html

While the press apparently takes a pass

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/30/barnes_update/index.html

(not entirely true: the WaPo ran a wire service story on Sunday: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42628-2004Aug28.html But, yes, it's not the same as the coverage of the SBVFT slanders.)

Comments

[robbysmom.livejournal.com]

yeah, McClellan's mother who tried to defund the Unitarians. The TX state gov't barely functions, if my favorite political writer, Molly Ivins, is to be beleived.