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Originally posted by The1calledTKE
Yah calling Max Cleland unpatriotic and weak on the miltary was an all time low seeing he lost 3 of his limbs in Vietnam.
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Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
On that, I gotta agree with you... it's totally uncalled for to question Max Cleland's service to his country.
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I don't think anyone questioned Cleland's service to his country. Anyone who loses three limbs in Vietnam (even in a friendly fire acident) shouldn't and wasn't questioned.
What many voters in GA questioned was his (lack of) service to the state in Washington. He was appointed to replace a conservative Georgia Republican who stroked out, and Max had been a decent secretary of state for Georgia.
When Max arrived in Washington, he jumped in bed with Ted Kennedy and the other liberal Democrats. He was an all-to-common Washingtonian - voting liberal in DC and talking conservative in GA.
His voting record did him in, along with an anti-Democrat tide in GA. On the day Max lost, GA elected it's first Republican governor and first majority-Republican
House of Representatives. He wasn't the only fat (and campaign fund rich) Democrat to lose in GA.
This talk about how Max's patriotism was questioned is just a straw issue, which Max hopes somehow will generate a job for him if JFK wins the election.
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