I've talked to plenty of people, on both sides of the political spectrum, who argue that all of this business about Bush's National Guard records have no relevance. It was all so long ago, they say. I understand where they're coming from, and in principle, I agree completely. What a person was doing in the 70s has no bearing on what kind of president they would make in 2004.
But there's a lot more to Bush's story than just showing that he was a hypocrite who believed in the war but had his daddy pull some strings to keep him out of it. Second of all, even if that's all we could say, that's still a relevant point to bring up against someone who is running as a "wartime president", and who showed up on the deck of an aircraft carrier in a flight-suit.
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