Vietnam

[David A. Daniel]

>I don't care about Blumenthal's likely
>or unlikely political motivations--this is quite irrelevant to what I
>asked.

Wow, such arrogance! Here's the thing: I don't care what you don't care
about. I answered as I chose to answer, and it was to the point. Further, I
wasn't even answering you; I was answering a query from the list. Get some
manners, boy, then come back for a conversation.
DAD



VS-)

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:38 PM, David A. Daniel <dad at pokerwiz.com> wrote:
>
> As a guy who was in the Marine Corps Reserve, Blumenthal knows full well
> that he is not entitled to say that he was "in Vietnam". Someone who had
not
> been in the service(s) at all might make this mistake ("Yeah, my uncle was
> in Vietnam", or the like) but not someone who was. He just flat out lied,
> and has probably been lying, waffling and shuffling about his military
> service for his whole political life.
> DAD
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
Of
> Bill Palmer
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 5:07 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Vietnam
>
>
>
> Victor,
>
> IMHO, this is hyperanalyzing a simple lie.
>
>  The man tried to claim, imply, suggest, assert, or whatever, that he had
> served in a combat zone, when he, demonstrably, had never done so.  And he
> did it purely for poitical gain, to gain votes from those who would
support
> him on the basis of his supposed service to his country.  Why try to find
a
> million ways where he could have been making a truthful statement that was
> simply misconstrued?
>
> He would have been better advised to weasel word a claim of military
service
> as a veteran of the Vietnam Era, which does not require that service have
> been in-country.
>
> Bill Palmer

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