So first we have some guy go on CBS's 60 Minutes stating that he personally helped George W. Bush get into the National Guard to avoid going to Vietnam even though he stated on the record four years ago that he had no contact with the Bush family regarding getting George W. into the Guard. Then, during the same 60 Minutes report, they show documents from a now deceased Lieutenant which purportedly state that President Bush did not serve the time he signed up for while in the guard. However, the documents, dated 1972 and 1973 are in Times Roman which was never available on a typewriter and they also feature a superscript which also was never available on a typewriter along with proportionally spaced fonts (e.g. not fixed width like most typewriters where "i" takes up the same amount of space as "w"). Proportional fonts on typewriters were only available on super-high-end typewriters, which were likely not used by the National Guard in '72 or '73.

So, first we have Kerry himself lying about his past exploits in Vietnam and then we get a staunch pro-Kerry supporter on 60 Minutes claiming he helped get George W. into the National Guard despite saying that he didn't 4 years ago. On top of that, we still see the Kerry campaign trying to focus on events that happened 30+ years ago. With the poll numbers that came out today that show Kerry in a dead-heat in Pennsylvania with Bush (a must-win state for Kerry), things aren't looking up. Maybe if the focus shifted to the problems of today, we could actually go somewhere. But then again, we always hear Kerry say that the war in Iraq is being handled wrong, yet he offers no way to fix it. We hear him say that healthcare prices are too high, yet the only fix he's proposed is a national healthcare plan (which seems to be more of a slip than anything - I don't seriously think Kerry plans to socialize all healthcare in the U.S. - thought it is the only fix he's offered up). Kerry says that he can restore the U.S.'s prominence in foreign affairs, yet offers up no way to do so. And perhaps most apallingly, Kerry thinks we can win the war on terror by only fighting back after being attacked.

URL: ABCNEWS.com : Officer's Widow Questions Bush Guard Memos