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By Sharon Begley - Newsweek

June 27, 2007 - Do you remember when candidate George W. Bush berated Al Gore during the 2000 presidential debates for alleged funny business in his fund-raising? Bush said, “You know, going to a Buddhist temple and then claiming it wasn’t a fund-raiser isn’t my view of responsibility.” It was a direct attack on the honor of a fellow Southerner, and Gore wasn’t taking it. “You have attacked my honor and integrity,” the vice president shot back. “I think it’s time to teach you a few old-fashioned lessons about character. When I enlisted to fight in the Vietnam War, you were talkin’ real tough about Vietnam. But when you got the call, you called your daddy and begged him to pull some strings so you wouldn’t have to go to war. So instead of defending your country with honor, you put some poor Texas millworker’s kid on the front line in your place to get shot at. Where I come from, we call that a coward.

“When I was working hard, raising my family, you were busy drinking yourself and your family into the ground. Why don’t you tell us how many times you got behind the wheel of a car with a few drinks under your belt? Where I come from, we call that a drunk.

“When I was serving in the U.S. Senate, your own father’s government had to investigate you on the charge that you’d swindled a bunch of old people out of their life savings by using insider knowledge to sell off stocks you knew were about to drop. Where I come from, we call that crooked. So governor, don’t you ever lecture me about character. And don’t you ever talk to me that way again in front of my family or my fellow citizens.”

Don’t remember that reply? There’s a reason: Gore never said anything like it....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19461257/site/newsweek/page/0

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Too dumb to duck.

Sergeant William H. Carney of the 54th Massachusettes, the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, was wounded four times in three weeks including twice in one one day, at Fort Wagner.
 
Audie Murphy may have been too dumb to duck too.

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic

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ORIGINAL: caitlyn

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
Too dumb to duck.

Sergeant William H. Carney of the 54th Massachusettes, the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, was wounded four times in three weeks including twice in one one day, at Fort Wagner.
 
Audie Murphy may have been too dumb to duck too.

       Brains and bravery are very different things.  Wasn't Kerry supposed to be the smart one in '04?