Did Schmidt really say 'vets not qualified to serve in public office'?

[lostnfound]

Is this a paraphrase, or did she really say it..??
According to this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1971799

American vets from Iraq war not qualified to serve in public office, GOP US House candidate says in Ohio
by John in DC - 7/28/2005 06:10:00 PM

This is bad, seriously. Paul Hackett is running as the first Iraq war vet to run for Congress, and now his GOP opponent, Jean Schmidt, just said that being an American vet from the Iraq war is the wrong kind of experience for a member of Congress. I

[Son of California]

1. this cooky B---- is her own worst enemy!

man, we're right there folks, right on the cusp of victory.

[jimshoes]

2. Did she really???

Let's see if the RNC will wipe the shit off this gals slippers. What do ya say Ken?

[lostnfound]

12. I don't KNOW if she did; that's why I'm asking.

The post that I referenced isn't specific enough to any particular interview or quote. If we can identify the quote it's worth making an issue out of.

[FreedomAngel82]

3. Well then I guess by her notion

John McCain, John Kerry, John Glenn, Max Cleland, Wesley Clark, Al Gore and etc. shouldn't have served public office. Don't forget President Eisenhower. He was a general. :eyes: What a maroon and anybody who agrees with her.

[Betty]

7. president moron is a vet

we're all supposed to believe in his having served in the National Guard.. so I guess by her own standard, he shouldn't be serving? Or would she argue that since he never actually served, he is in fact qualified?

What a piece of shit.

[havocmom]

9. Left out Jackson, and Washington

Oh, and Poppy, JFK....

[Taxloss]

4. And where is her campaign manager?

Spanking someone?

Edit: typo-laden.

[ohio_liberal]

5. He's giving gynocological exams

:scared:

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. You know, I am beginning to suspect that Republicans do believe in

a caste system. Only they won't call it such. Just that it makes sense now that in the us vs them mentality of the right, there ARE sublevels of "thems." I just never put it all together before now.

[leeroysphitz]

8. Republicans only pay lip service

to our veterans. Slashing the V.A. budget, dishonoring and vilifying heroes like cleland, McCain and kerry for political gain' not to mention sending those who were selfless enough to volunteer in the first place to serve into harms way based on outright lies...

[Rex]

10. George Washington was a military vet.

Fuck her and the horse she rode in on.

[DefenseLawyer]

11. Isn't she president of some "Right to Life" lobby?

I guess that gives one the breadth of experience to confront any political issue.

[tomg]

13. Actually, what I heard her say

in a news report ( forget where) was ( this is my paraphrase) that experience in combat did not necessarily translate into leadership on other issues. Before you kick my ass, I support Hackett and sent money to his campaign (I'm from New York and Hinchey is my rep) and I think Schmidt is Shit. Then, though, she went on to say that, again my paraphrase, that the war wasn't really that much of an immediate issue to her constitutents and blah blah bullshit bullshit bullshit. And in some ways, that, at least to me is far more damning.

[faithnotgreed]

17. thanks for sharing what she said.... that was the question of the op

and were glad youre here

[Hubert Flottz]

14. The pigs in the GOP are always back stabbing veterans...

Under the draft, Rumsfeld said, conscripts were inducted, trained, then released after two years, "adding no value, no advantage, really, to the United States armed services over any sustained period of time."

Critics said Rumsfeld was dismissing draftees as useless and noted that more than 20,000 conscripts died in the Vietnam War. In a statement Tuesday, Rumsfeld apologized to "any veteran who misinterpreted my remarks."

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20030124/ai_n9615155

"any veteran who misinterpreted my remarks."

I heard the no good worm, loudly and clearly! Not only does the nasty bast*d trash all us old soldiers, but then he tries to say it's our fault he said what he said! I saw the no good snake, when he made the statement on TV. I understood, what I heard come out of his sorry, lying, ungrateful, vile, mouth! The first thing that popped into my head that day, was the draftees that never made it back home.

Rumbo would have been fired on the spot, if Bush wasn't of the very same mind as Rumbo, about the value of the American Soldier's service to this country!

I'm glad Rumbo or his cowardly, ungrateful, back stabbing, cronies in Washington, wasn't ever watching my back in a bad situation!

[jimshoes]

16. Fungible

I remember that. He called them fungible, like a fricking commodity. What a creep he is. Fungible, BTW is something that can be used interchangably.


fun·gi·ble ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fnj-bl)
adj.

1. Law. Returnable or negotiable in kind or by substitution, as a quantity of grain for an equal amount of the same kind of grain.
2. Interchangeable.


n.

Something that is exchangeable or substitutable. Often used in the plural.

[Hubert Flottz]

18. Just numbers, to the 5 bean counting neocon "planners" at DoD.

cannon

1. A large mounted weapon that fires heavy projectiles. Cannon include guns, howitzers, and mortars.


fod·der

1. Feed for livestock, especially coarsely chopped hay or straw.
2. Raw material, as for artistic creation.
3. A consumable, often inferior item or resource that is in demand and usually abundant supply: romantic novels intended as fodder for the pulp fiction market.


All the draftees from the period Rumbo was harping about, are now just "needy" class citizens, to those greedy class brass hats and war "Planners". We troopers needed our asses shot off, so that they could erect hotels on Boardwalk and Park Platz. Bushco and the neogangsters want to play Cowboys and Arabs, with our kids as the game pieces. But when the game is over, those soldiers too, will be nothing more than just needy "liabilities", to the ghouls in charge of "MORALITY" at the Pentagon. RUMBO, is the most rotten apple in that entire barrel of "bad apples" in Washington!

[havocmom]

15. Some Ohio DUer needs to get to one of Schmidt's appearances and ask

if she supported Clinton in 92 & 96, since in both of those elections, he faced vets!

Puleeze, somebody in Ohio do this for me? ;)