Email Dirtbag Bob Dole (told Blitzer Kerry didn't deserve medals)

[Proud2BAmurkin]

Dirtbag Dole said Kerry "didn't bleed" for his Purple Hearts.

This senile old facelifted Dirtbag is a disgrace.

Here's where you can submit comments on his official site.

http://www.bobdole.org/contact.html



You can also contact his "Families for Freedom" charity. I asked them why they are associated with a dirtbag like Dole, quoted him, and said I would never support their organization.

[email protected]

Web site http://www.familiesoffreedom.org/

[joanski01]

1. I was shocked when I heard Dole

say that. Yes, he actually said that Kerry didn't bleed for those Purple Hearts and he didn't deserve them. What a rotten old coot!!!

[DemMother]

36. This is fascinating--about Bob Dole and his bitterness...

Found this googling Dole and Nixon. I grew up when Nixon was president and have a completely different memory of Bob Dole than most of you do--I always thought of him as an asshole. I guess one of the things this interview did for me is hammer home what an awful, searing experience war is--and how it doesn't stop affecting any of us.

From the interview:
FL: To start, what is the effect of the war wound on Dole, the man we see in front of us?
BLUMENTHAL: Dole's wounding is central to his personal being and to his political being. He is, wounded, on many levels. At the same time he's recovered on a number of levels. He's very proud about his ability to recover and recuperate, and the difficulty he had in that. That's a source of his self-respect, of his continuing belief in what he calls "the hard way". At the same time, it's clear, that it's also a source of his anger, his bitterness, even his occasional lapses into self-pity. All at once. That's how central this is.

Read the rest (including interesting info about Bush 41) at:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice/bob/blumenthal1.html


The interview is long, but I think one of the most interesting parts--and I thought this before I read it--is about Dole's relationship to Nixon and how that may be playing a role in his criticism of Kerry. Kerry went head to head with Dole's idol--which I think also is part of the vitriol behind Buchanan's attacks on Kerry. We're still fighting that damn war.

It makes me think of that last scene from "The Outlaw, Josey Wales"--It's always struck a chord for me, having lived through Vietnam, protesting the war while I had a cousin who was in Cambodia as a medic...


From Josey Wales

Fletcher: I think I’ll go down Mexico and find him.
Josey Wales: And then?
Fletcher: I’ll give him the first move. I owe him that much. I think I’ll tell him the war is over. What do you say...Mr. Wilson?
Josey Wales: Reckon so. We all died a little in that damn war.


Sorry this is so rambling. I'm still trying to put my thoughts together on all of this--something that we thought we'd left behind 35 years ago.

[bluestateguy]

2. Maybe the Clinton campaign should have attacked his war record in '96

That surely would have produced blood curdling screams from the Right.

[otohara]

3. Attitude Towards Vietnam Vets From WWII Vets

it seems to me that Dole's generation of vets takes on a superior attitude towards Vietnam vets. More people died, we won, you lost .... no anti-war vets back then

[madrchsod]

7. right after the war there

was alot of friction between the two groups..yes the old timers thought the Nam vets were not worthy..but those old coots died out and now the Nam vets have taken there place-they are the biggest supporters of the gulf war vets

[mourningdove92]

4. He didn't bleed????????

unfricken believable. How does he know? and what difference does it make? It is beyond me how they can keep up this scum.

[MidwestTransplant]

12. He still has shrapnel in his leg

you can be sure it made him bleed when it was on the way in.

[radfringe]

5. couple of points

1. Kerry received the medals after the military read/reviewed and approved reports/records

2. to say Kerry did not merit the medals is to question the military's review and approval

is Dole saying that the military is incompetent? If so then we should be going through all the records and having a complete top to bottom investigation and overhaul the military's procedures. additionally, how accurate is Dole's military records or poppy bush*'s if the military was/is incompetent -- we should be reviewing their records for accuracy and completeness

is Dole saying that the records were doctored/fixed/white washed in order to award Kerry the medals? If so, then couldn't bush*'s records have also been doctored/fixed/white washed to hide his AWOL and subsequent honorable discharge. If the military would allow doctoring/fixing/white washing of a lowly LT's records - then how far of a stretch is it that they would bend over backwards to do the same for the son of bush?

[Cha]

21. bob dole needs to be held accountable for his

gibberish. I hope he screws his credibility and libby's.

[madaboutharry]

6. It was in character.

In 1965, Bob Dole filibustered on the floor of the Senate against the Medicare legislation being pushed through by President Johnson. Dole bitterly argued that if the Medicare bill passed, America would slid down the slippery slop of socialism. He believed it wasn't the government's responsibility to provide health care to elderly Americans. I don't understand why Bill Clinton loves him so much.

[luaneryder]

8. Just emailed the old fart

[starroute]

9. Dole's first Purple Heart was for a minor and self-inflicted wound

Dole's War Record
As published in The Nation (Aug12/19, 1996).
http://www.tedellis.net/dole-article.htm

Most journalistic accounts of Dole's wartime experience pass along, without questioning, the versions from several biographies, some based on interviews with him; some from interviews with the same soldiers who were interviewed for those books; some from the autobiography Dole wrote with his wife, Elizabeth, The Doles: Unlimited Partners, an updated version of which was published in time for the campaign; and some from G.O.P. campaign literature. Although these sources sometimes contradict one another, the following composite picture of Dole's combat exploits emerges:

<snip>

* Slightly wounded on a night patrol by a grenade, he returned to lead his platoon on a second patrol only two days later.

<snip>

Yet all of the above is either untrue or exaggerated. Dole's first wound, in the night patrol, was self-inflicted (a story the candidate once told himself), but that fact does not appear in an extremely laudatory profile the G.O.P. distributes with a cover letter by Dole.

<snip>

# He ruefully confesses in his 1988 autobiography that his wound was self-inflicted: "As we approached the enemy, there was a brief exchange of gunfire. I took a grenade in hand, pulled the pin, and tossed it in the direction of the farmhouse. It wasn't a very good pitch (remember, I was used to catching passes, not throwing them). In the darkness, the grenade must have struck a tree and bounced off. It exploded nearby, sending a sliver of metal into my leg -- the sort of injury the Army patched up with Mercurochrome and a Purple Heart." The wound was so minor that he led another patrol two nights later. He does not mention that others were also injured by his misguided throw -- which Woodruff's account attributes to an enemy machine gun.

[Inland]

10. And yet he has the audacity--what a dick. nt

[CBHagman]

29. Interesting choice of words there...

...given that he's the Viagra spokesman. :-)

[imax2268]

55. is he still a spokesman...?

If so I say we do what the right did to Whoopie...let's bombard pfizer with emails demanding that Bob Dole be removed as a spokesman...ask them how can the support a man who attacks veterans who fought for this country...

[gratuitous]

19. Well Bob, what of it?

If Kerry didn't "deserve" his Purple Hearts, did you? "The sort of injury the Army patched up with Mercurochrome and a Purple Heart." Or is this just more Republican projection? Dole didn't "deserve" his Purple Heart, therefore Kerry didn't deserve his?

[TheDonkey]

11. done, he's a sick punk

[Stew225]

13. done. The more people that let him know

what a sell-out he is the better.

[The Night Owl]

14. Dole wasted no time getting on the Smear Boat.

I have to say that I am a bit surprised that Dole got on the Smear Boat.

[Cha]

22. I'm mildly surprised, too. I don't know that much about

him but I thought he was at least sane. May this come blowback on him as much as it will on bush.

[Princess Turandot]

41. I am too..I don't remember him making military service an issue with ..

Clinton..it does make you wonder if they've promised him (or more likely his wife) something, or if they have dirt on him.

[Generator]

15. I'm shocked too

Just more proof that anyone that supports Bush is scum.

I really hate blanket statements but they are beyond the pale!

I'm never watching "good ole" Bob Dole on the Daily Show or anywhere else and laughing again.

[Fla Dem]

23. Dole has always been an attack dog. He got a little

better after he married Elizabeth Dole, a late in life marriage. Then he cleaned up his act while running for president. Then he came across as some nice old guy in the Viagra commercials. But, he seems to have his tongue sharpened again. But he was always out there with the nasty and snide remarks.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

16. Remember when he told Bush 1 "quit lying about my record"

Now he's swimming in the sewer with the LIARS.

[nosmokes]

17. no wonder he can't get it up...

what an asswipe.

so, do you think clinton's relationship will remain chummy?

[tabasco]

18. Scumbag.

These assholes want a war, they got one. BRING IT ON ! :mad:

[SemperEadem]

20. I thought he was dead

[DeepModem Mom]

24. Thanks P2BA -- I messaged --

[Jade Fox]

25. Done

[stray cat]

26. Done

I heard him say something similar on another show. How much do you have to bleed for Dole to think you deserve a purple heart. I respect Dole for his service but he has not right to denigrate other vets.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

27. Did Bush Get A Purple Heart For His War Related Wounds?

ahhhhhhhhhhhh


don't bother.....

[CBHagman]

28. Anyone have a transcript?

I missed the segment.

By the way, CNN has no moral compass at all. If Richard Nixon and Lee Atwater were to rise from their graves, CNN would simply depict their dirty tricks as an alternate point of view. It's disgusting.

[gollygee]

30. Done. Thanks for the link to contact him.

[MichiganVote]

31. Makes you wonder what the Repub's have on him??????

He always was a sick bastard. About as much warmth as a turd in Antarctica.

[enigmatic]

32. I hope we can put to rest this assertion

that Dole and McCain are "honorable men"; they both put party loyalty above decency, and w/ Dole's smearing Kerry about his Medals and McCain campaigning for the man who smeared him and Max Cleland and now Kerry, a military brother no less, it tells me all I need to know about how "honorable" they both are.

[Bluebear]

33. Well said.

[Cha]

34. It's in the freakin' grave as far as I'm

concerned..course I never did assert that ..Are there any "honorable" repugs left?

One of my hero's Senator Jim Jeffords is a former repug who did the honorable thing and Switched outta that party.

[Jacobin]

35. I agree with that

The next time I hear someone talking about how "honorable" or "ok" McCain is, I'm gonna jump through my monitor screen and whack them upside the head.

McCain in particular is absolutely disgusting.

[Sparkly]

37. Transcript here

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0408/22/le.00.html

Unbelievable. What a dickhead.

[Sparkly]

38. My email

Mr. Dole, I am writing to express my profound disgust with your comments to Wolf Blitzer today.

You said the SWVT couldn't all be "republican liars." No -- one or two are, and the rest believe them. But if they are not liars, then who is? The crew of Kerry's boat, Green Beret Jim Rassmann, William Rood, and the U.S. Navy itself -- they would have to be the liars.

The SBVT is most definitely lying. They contradict Navy records, they contradict their own statements, and they leap to conclusions without any basis in fact whatsoever.

For you to say Kerry never "bled" for his Purple Hearts, belittling his service, is an outrage. For you to mischaracterize his 1971 testimony is yet another outrage. And for you to give one ounce of credence to this group of partisan liars is the worst outrage of all. You are telling every veteran in the country that their medals mean so little, they can be obtained by merely making up stories. Unbelievable. I thought you were a bigger man than that.

Sincerely,

[swag]

39. For Bob; I regret I praised him the other day for legis w/McGovern

"Re: Your public slander of John Kerry.

You have lost all claim to America's respect with your groundless public smear of John Kerry.

I used to admire you. Now you disgust me."

[Princess Turandot]

40. You might want to copy and paste the link, rather than just clicking on it

so the emails do not appear to be only coming from an obviously 'biased' group. By clicking on the link, we probably provide a trail back to this webpage IP. I'm not suggesting that is a problem; it just may be more useful for the response to not appear coordinated in any way. (Right click, and copy short-cut, if you can't highlight and copy it.)

PT

I wrote:

"Mr. Dole,

You should be ashamed of yourself.
I'm shocked that you would demean your own character by stooping to an attack on John Kerry's military honors, in order to defend a president who could not lick YOUR boots in terms of his notion of military service."

[Cocoa]

42. mine

Dear Sen. Dole,

I'm so disappointed you chose to be part of this swiftboat smear. As you know, it's a vicious lie.

I'm a democrat, but I've been impressed with the work you have done with Bill Clinton, despite your political differences, but that respect is all gone now.

This smear is the equivalent of if Clinton had smeared your own honorable war record. But Clinton had too much class to do that.

I hope Clinton has enough class to sever his relationship with you.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

43. kick for the old dirty bastard

.

[Joanne98]

44. Done

Thanks for putting that up.....

[fishface]

45. kick this ...

and make sure everyone e-mails that foundation and demand his removal.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

46. Typical Dole.

The guy has been a mean, negative, bitter old bastard for as long as I can remember. And creepy, too. Remember the Pepsi ad where he did his Humbert Humbert routine, ogling Britney Spears? Eww. He's the perfect spokeman for Viagra, though, on account of being a tired old prick.

[SayitAintSo]

47. My Letter to Dole......

My letter to Dole - it's a little pissy, but it's how I feel !

Mr. Dole,
Your comments on Wolf Blitzer on 8/22/04, supporting the swift boat liars campaign to smear John Kerry are beyond words. You should be ashamed of yourself to participate in that kind of partisan smear. You have brought shame to yourself and your party and have continued to support the devisivness that is tearing at the fabric of our Veterans honor. Do you really put politics above your own honor and integrity? I thought since retirement you had become more of a statesman - you are nothing but a party shill - no more than a lemming with no mind of your own. At least John McCain and others in your party have condemned this trash that the Bush campaign is heaping on the american psyche. You are no leader... just a follower. Shame on you.

SayitAintSo

[Proud2BAmurkin]

48. late night kick

.

[mvd]

49. Grr.. Dole is always willing to get politically motivated at..

important times. He should be ashamed.

[question everything]

50. Oh, just double his Viagra dose and ask Elizabeth for a date

[Sugarbleus]

51. Good idea pointing out his assoc. sites

I've been in here all day long. :hangover: I wrote to Dole, as did many others already, too.

One Vet wife in here today called him and left a flaming message. ...

[blitzen]

52. I just e-mailed this rant to Dole's office

How dare you smear John Kerry, you bitter old partisan hack loser!

I guess the media caricature that helped you lose to Clinton (mean-spirited back-stabbing cutthroat) turns out to be true--although Clinton would have cleaned your clock anyway, because you had no ideas except to take care of your wealthy cronies.

And that's why your brain-dead coke-snorting AWOL presiduncy-stealing chum, Chimphead, will be losing come November. Despite the truly immoral ravings of you and your ilk.

[zulchzulu]

53. Two words for Bob Dole: SORE LOSER

I really thought Dole had some amount of decency left. He is going to do a lot of damage to himself and his relationship with vets with these accusations.

Granted, Clinton handed him his hat in 1996. The poor bastard must still be pissed.

Maybe paranoia and turning into a self-dejected sore loser asshole is a side-effect for putting Viagra down your piehole.

[auburngrad82]

54. My e-mail to Dole

Mr Dole, I think your comments about John Kerry's medals in Vietnam are dispicable. My father served in Vietnam, earning a Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts. I take your comments about Kerry's medals as a personal insult and a slap in the face of all decorated veterans of the US military. What makes you a "patriot" and the rest of America's veterans less brave than you? You should be ashamed of yourself.

[Shopaholic]

56. Here's mine:

Mr. Dole--What exactly, in your mind, would make someone eligible to "earn" a Purple Heart? Would it be having limbs blown off? Would that be enough? What is the Bob Dole standard for earning a Purple Heart? You owe every Vet in this country an immediate apology for your remarks. You have succeeded in insulting countless Veterans and their families and friends for your thoughtless and uncalled for remarks. APOLOGIZE Mr. Dole!

[Proud2BAmurkin]

57. kick

,

[ellie]

58. Done

I e-mailed him and told him how disgraceful his comments were and why he was supporting someone who disparaged decorated veterans. I also told him that I used to respect him and I don't anymore.

[spanone]

Done, Dole shames his brothers-in-arms.

Once a Rethug shill, always a Rethug shill. Dole owes Kerry an apology.

[spanone]

59. Done, Dole shames his brothers-in-arms.

Once a Rethug shill, always a Rethug shill. Dole owes Kerry an apology.

[molly]

60. Maybe he ran out of Viagra?

I watched him yesterday and he had exactly the same comments that most of the rw idiots - sounded totally scripted. :grr:

[LuminousX]

61. My letter to Dole

Kerry didn't deserve his medals? Did you deserve your Purple Heart for the sliver of metal you took from the self-inflicted wound from your poorly thrown grenade?

How DARE you, an honored veteran, even begin to question the process the military uses to give out medals. You, sir, in your general mean-spirited method of attacking fellow Senator Kerry, have brought into question every medal the military issued during Vietnam. Your disrespect for those who served during that war is disgusting and vulgar.

I had believed, after your last attempt to run for President that you would become an elder statesman, one of the reasoned voices that would help smooth over all this crass political partisan rhetoric we voters have to put up with. I was hoping that your respected standing as a former Majority Leader, respected Senator, Presidential candidate, and decorated war veteran, that you would soundly denounce the methodology and crazy conspiracy theory being put forth by the Swiftboat Vets. These tactics were vile when used against McCain and equally vile when used against Kerry.

You have no honor and you have no shame.

You serve the Bush campaign well.