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Friday Surprise?

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Though I suspect that there are few who even raise their eyebrows at this disclosure:

WASHINGTON (AP) � The Pentagon on Friday released payroll records from President Bush’s 1972 service in the Alabama National Guard, saying its earlier contention the records were destroyed was an “inadvertent oversight.”
The two computerized payroll record sheets cover July through September of 1972, when Bush was working as a campaign volunteer in Alabama. The future president had been transferred from the Texas Air National Guard to the Alabama unit so he could stay in Alabama.
Surely you never believed that this stuff was lost or destroyed. This is all a matter of the administration decided when they will release material.
Oh, Thomas over at The Gadflyer notes:
Bush�s payroll sheet apparently shows that he logged NO flight time during this period when he was working on a Republican Senate campaign.
I don’t think this is that big a deal as, if memory serves, he was actually suspended from flying beginning 8/1/72 because he had avoided taking his required physical for some reason.
It will be interesting to see what the folks who have studied the bush record in depth have to say about what this release adds to our understanding of bush’s performance.
Via Pacific Views.

What the Frum?

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David must have been smoking some pretty heavy stuff to make this leap:

Took my kids to the multiplex on the weekend. The multiplex being in DC, close to half the theaters were showing Michael Moore’s pseudo-documentary. But that’s OK! Because the other half were showing the great pro-Bush movie of the summer: Spiderman 2.
Pro-Bush? Well consider this. Spiderman 2 is the story of a hero who is regularly belittled and ridiculed by almost everyone who knows him. Fashionable society despises him; the press lampoons and attacks him. Fashionable society despises him; the press lampoons and attacks him. ….The good news is that the movie ends with a barrage of hints that Spidey will soon return for another term …..
And in front of his kids too.
I join Juan Non-Volokh in calling this a great summer movie and note that I still can’t come up with one thing from the movie that seems pro-bush.
However, Frum’s point that almost everyone who knows bush regularly belittles and ridicules him does have a ring of truth to it and perhaps Frum will expand on this jiucy bit of gossip in future articles.

Wealthy Candidates

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From time to time I have heard various bush supporting talk jocks actually say something true about kerry: he’s wealthy. They state this, though, in a pejorative manner intended to convince their listeners that kerry isn’t one of them and can’t be trusted.
Of course they fail to point out that, compared to their typical listener, bush is also wealthy.
It looks like Tom is working hard to get the message out that bush is also wealthy.