Good post by Bill Maher

It's been a while since I've checked Bill Maher's blog, but this post on Michael Moore's "deserter" comment is excellent:

I hear the press saying "reckless", I don't see a lot of digging into the story (except the Boston Globe a little bit).

Why is it murky? This isn't something that happened in the 16th century. The Gospels that give the 411 on Jesus were written forty to sixty years after his death. Why is this one too hard to sniff out, when any sort of gossipy lead prompts the media to dig up everybody related - aunts, uncles, cousins, co-workers come out of the woodwork. We can't get some guys who served with Bush, or were at the bases he was supposed to be at, to go on Dateline? I know Scott Peterson's important, but why is this so inscrutable?

More galling about this for me is the Affirmative Action angle - a president who's against Affirmative Action for getting into colleges because no one, even one who's race was denied basic rights and opportunities for so long, should have one iota of favoritism for any reason -

(in Michigan, he fretted blacks got 20 out of 150 points just for being black, "not for some achievement", spoken like a true clueless white boy who never got it that for lots of poor people in the U.S., just getting out of the neighborhood alive is an achievement, let alone going on to college)

- as if just any soldier could get a transfer to another base to work on a political campaign - "Sure soldier, just fill out requisition T-93dash08..."

I think for a lot of us who are not real big Bush fans, it was running for president on the idea that your life had been defined by honor and integrity that got us on the wrong foot with this man.

College legacy, getting out of going to Viet Nam, special favors and oily, corrupt crony connections all along the way - not a monster, George Bush, but equally far from a life defined by honor and integrity.

If you look at the facts, that is. But Republicans are, above all else, loyal. Unfortunately, that's nowadays more to people than principles.

(so refreshing to see a libertarian with an actual understanding of Affirmative Action)

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