Sep
8th
2004
Kerry on the Counter Attack!
Ben Barnes, Democrat and former Lt. Gov. of Texas in 1968, is now coming out and saying that he helped get Bush his spot on the National Guard. True or not (it is contrary to what he’s said under oath apparently) it’s kind of funny that Ben Barnes is one of the top fundraisers for John Kerry…
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So either he lied under oath, or PURGERED himself, or he is lying now. How can anyone trust him? We can’t, of course! One way or another he is flat out lying.
A FrontPage Magazine article by Lowell Ponte, dated 8 September, has this to say about the Bush-Barnes pseudo-scandal:
“Barnes, facing potential charges of yet more wrongdoing, told his National Guard story in a deposition in a successful effort to politically deflect his own responsibility in this matter. In multiple re-tellings since 1999, the details of Barnes’ story have changed several times. Its gist is Barnes’ claim that when he was the Democratic Lt. Governor he intervened to get Republican Houston Congressman George H.W. Bush’s son George W. into the Texas Air National Guard (alongside the sons of Governor John Connally and Senator Lloyd Bentsen, Democrats). Barnes now says he is ‘ashamed’ of this. Trouble is, George W. Bush began the first of six years’ service in the National Guard in 1968, but Barnes did not become Lt. Governor of Texas until 1969. Barnes has acknowledged that no member of the Bush family sought his help, but claims he was approached by a Bush family friend (who died three years before Barnes began telling his self-serving story).”
Further down, in the same article, we are reminded once again of why it’s always important to “follow the money trail.”
“If Kerry becomes President, reported the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in July 2004, Ben Barnes is at the top of the list of those close to the Kerry Administration likely to become ‘gatekeepers and endorsers for…appointees and job-seekers.’ Given his sticky-fingered past, Barnes would likely also become a toll-collector at this gate, charging everybody he allows through it, and overnight he could become an even wealthier and more influential political lobbyist and ‘fixer’ serving special interest groups, corporations, nations and individuals.”
How sad it is for someone like Barnes to go over to the dark side. Early in his career he showed so much promise that Lyndon B. Johnson compared him to Thomas Jefferson and predicted that he would someday be elected President.