Sunday, August 22, 2004

Presidential Auction 2004

The Kerry campaign has been accusing the Bush campaign of being involved in the Swift Boat smear ads, and of course, the Bush campaign has denied it. However, it turns out - surprise, surprise - that one of the participants in the ads was also a Bush campaign advisor.

A Bush campaign statement said it did not know that retired Air Force Col. Ken Cordier had appeared in an ad by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

...As a so-called 527 group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is barred from coordinating efforts with an election campaign.

Kerry's camp calls it a front for the Bush campaign and has urged the Federal Election Commission to cite the group, the Bush campaign and the Republican National Committee for violating federal election laws.
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Unfortunately, one of the invested [sic] guests, retired Air Force Col. Ken Cordier, a decorated former Vietnam POW and experienced speaker, chose to politicize this solemn event. In an attempt at levity, he defended the pulling of ladies' panties over the faces of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. interrogators at Abu Ghraib as preferable to beheading. His inappropriate, Limbaughistic comments detracted from the reverence and purpose of this event.

Letter to the editor of the Dallas Morning News June 13 - from a Digby post.

Cordier. Those Bushies should have figured he'd be trouble. Damned French.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

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