From James Boyce on HuffPo:
Never one to let an opportunity to mislead the people of Georgia (pass), Saxby Chambliss has requested that he actually be excused from the December 2nd runoff against Jim Martin and just be declared the winner.
It is rumored that in private statements, Saxby has claimed that the knee that allowed him to have six deferments from serving in Vietnam has been acting up again, and not a minute too soon, as the race for what could be the 60th Senate Senate appears closer than ever.
Just in case his deferment is not granted and Saxby never had a problem in the past, Saxby has started to run a commercial in Georgia focusing on the attacks on 9/11.
Let's go to the tape and make sure you listen to the first line, "When our country was under attack, we trusted Saxby Chambliss."
Well, there are a couple of unintentionally humorous things here. First, the only thing Saxby can be trusted to do when the going gets tough, is go get another deferment.
Second, back on 9/11, Saxby wasn't sitting in his seat, Max Cleland was. Saxby then defeated Max as many of us know, by running perhaps the worst ad in American political history. An ad so bad, I'm not going to embed it here but it showed Osama Bin Laden morphing into Max Cleland's face. It was a test run of swiftboating, and tragically it worked -- turning Max's service and sacrifice against him in favor of someone who has never served anyone but himself.
At the time, many veterans in the US Senate were absolutely outraged by the ad, most prominently and passionately, John McCain.
"I've never seen anything like that ad," says McCain. "Putting pictures of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden next to a picture of a man who left three limbs on the battlefield -- it's worse than disgraceful, it's reprehensible."" (Washington Post, 7/3/2003)
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