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Thursday, February 05, 2004
You know, that "open the records" thing? Doesn't seem to be happening. As Phil Carter reports in his blog:Update: Some reporter did try to ask this question today, but he was dismissed with a brusque answer from the White House press secretary. Here's the transcript from Wednesday's White House press briefing.
Q How is the President going to counter Democratic challenges that he got preferential treatment while serving in the National Guard during Vietnam?
MR. McCLELLAN: I think we went through this issue four years ago and I went through this issue yesterday. And I will leave it where I left it yesterday.
Where, exactly, was that? It seems to me like the issue remained open yesterday. If someone were casting my military service in a bad light, I'd be the first guy to produce the documents that said otherwise. I can understand the impulse to play this one down, given the military credentials of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. But I think that brushing aside these inquiries will only make people more curious. Carter also outlines the myriad kinds of records that ought to exist which would, uh, clarify Dubya's status.
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