Anybody remember Tom Delay saying this?

[MSgt213]

What's DeLay's line about sitting out the war? That he was needed for the war at home against earwigs and cockroaches? (Instead of going into the military, he became an exterminator.) DeLay flack Scanlon said he'd get back to Chatterbox, but never did. Specifically, Chatterbox wanted to know if there was any truth to a report in the Houston Press, a rather emphatically anti-DeLay alternative newspaper, about what DeLay said on this subject at the 1988 Republican convention in New Orleans, when vice-presidential nominee Dan Quayle was under attack for having avoided Vietnam service in the National Guard. (The story was repeated in a Molly Ivins profile of DeLay in the May issue of Playboy.) Here's what the Houston Press reported:

"He and Quayle, DeLay explained to the assembled media in New Orleans, were victims of an unusual phenomenon back in the days of the undeclared Southeast Asian war. So many minority youths had volunteered for the well-paying military positions to escape poverty and the ghetto that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself. Satisfied with the pronouncement, which dumbfounded more than a few of his listeners who had lived the sixties, DeLay marched off to the convention."

[Erika]

1. DoubleSpeak!!!

Decent Americans actually bought this? Of course, it looks they are buying it now, you don't see the Bush twins or George P over there.

[Career Prole]

2. OMG! What a trip! Here's the Houston Press link...

http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/1999-01-07/columns2.html/1/index.html

What slays me is I went to awolbush.com to find it. I knew I'd seen it on the "Who served?" page.

I tried typing in the URL and left the ".html" off the end so I got an error page. I almost didn't read it...glad I did!
Check it out...
www.awolbush.com/whoserved

:bounce:

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

3. Yup.......

.......of course, this stuff never gets reported by the National Media, but Hillary talking about Ghandi heads the news.