I have a problem with a comment made by Electoral-Vote.com's editor, and I wanted to share it with you:
I have to take issue with the analogy he makes at the end. In a court case, the defendant is innocent until proven guilty. The prosecution has the task of proving beyond a shadow of doubt the guilt of the defendant. Nobody can do that in Bush's case. Why? Well, one reason is the honorable discharge letter. And whether the Left likes it or not, it's essentially a get-out-of-jail-free card for President Bush. Besides, judges have thrown out cases for lesser reasons than evidence tampering."Gallup took a poll on whether people think CBS made an honest mistake about the memo relating to George Bush's service/nonservice in the Alabama National Guard. By a large margin (56% to 38%) the public thinks it was an honest mistake. Only 26% think CBS should fire Dan Rather. Perhaps not surprisingly, by a 2 to 1 margin (63% to 36%), Republicans think CBS broadcast the story to make Bush look bad. By a 6 to 1 margin (82% to 13%) Democrats think it was just an honest mistake. What strikes me as the worst part of this whole story is that everyone has forgotten the real story. It is not about whether one memo was a forgery or not. It is about whether George Bush got favorable treatment (as the former Lt. Governor of Texas, Ben Barnes, has said) and whether he fulfilled his obligations to the Guard. In a court case, if one piece of evidence is invalidated, it is discarded and the judge and jury look at the rest of the evidence."
Doesn't the Left see that the more they take issue with something that happened 30 years ago, the Right will pound back with increased vitriol Kerry's disservice to the nation? Bush and Kerry's actions don't equate to each other. More people have problems with Kerry criticizing the Vietnam soldiers when he testified in front of congressmen than if Bush missed some Air National Guard meetings.
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