(VIDEO) Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes on getting Bush into the National Guard (VIDEO)

Taken from http://www.mydd.com/

sorry for the swipe but this needs to get around.

Tx. Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, in a speech, says he got George Bush in the National Guard as a favor to a privileged kid.

Let's talk a minute about John Kerry and George Bush and I know them both. And I'm not name dropping to say I know `em both. I got a young man named George W. Bush in the National Guard when I was Lt. Gov. of Texas and I'm not necessarily proud of that. But I did it. And I got a lot of other people into the National Guard because I thought that was what people should do, when you're in office you helped a lot of rich people. And I walked through the Vietnam Memorial the other day and I looked at the names of the people that died in Vietnam and I became more ashamed of myself than I have ever been because it was the worst thing that I did was that I helped a lot of wealthy supporters and a lot of people who had family names of importance get into the National Guard and I'm very sorry about that and I'm very ashamed and I apologize to you as voters of Texas.

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•  D'oh

  DOH! I just realized someone else has written on this.  I'll leave this up just for the link to the video.

  Email it to your friends!
  

  by JoelK in AZ on Fri Aug 27, 2004 at 04:10:32 PM PDT

•  Thanks -- your link is much better than the other

  by bdbd on Fri Aug 27, 2004 at 05:03:26 PM PDT