Posted by
RightTeacher on Sunday, March 09, 2008 10:52:35 PM
I never liked Sam Donaldson. He is liberal, but so is George Stephanopolous. But George knows he is a liberal and can understand The Other Side. Sam doesn't get that there are other ways of thinking. He thought the 2006 Republicans lost because of the Republican's support of the war.
Today he invoked swiftboating as a verb and called on Hillary to release her tax returns. I also think that Hillary should release her tax returns. She claims that she will release them on tax day. Should she win the nomination and then release her tax returns, she deprives Democrats from the ability to consider that information in making their choice. This would be especially bad for the Democratic party if they contain something damaging that would affect her electability and they get released in time for the general election. Of course, releasing them at that point would be stupid, and Hillary's team is not stupid. Watch for her to delay the release of her tax returns the way she is refusing to release her diaries from her time as first lady. They can make whatever excuses they want, but if she agrees to have them released, they will be released.
Now, let's go back to swiftboating. First of all, the swiftboaters were right. You can argue about whether their information was relevant to the election, but the information was true. Of course, as a liberal, I don't expect him to agree with this. As Mr. Elder is fond of saying, facts to liberals are like kryptonite to Superman. But let's talk about Kerry. If John Kerry's view of his service is correct, he would have filed a simple form that would allow his military records to be released. He has not. Here we are, almost four years after the election and John Kerry has still not followed through on his promise to allow his military records to be released. If Sam Donaldson believes John Kerry, as I am sure the Democrats do, then there should be no reason why Kerry would not release his records. I'm sure that this little form has just slipped his mind.
Yeah right.
Hillary should release her records without delay. Kerry should also.