For Max
28 October 2008 8:00 pm by Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH
Max Cleland wrote quite a piece today for Huffington Post.
Six years ago this week, I was campaigning across Georgia for re-election to the United States Senate. I loved being a U.S. Senator and serving the people of Georgia. As our country headed to war in Iraq, and continued to fight to find Osama Bin Laden, I believed that my service in Vietnam, my experience as a combat veteran, would be of added value to my home state, and to my country.
My opponent at the time, Saxby Chambliss, disagreed; running a television commercial against me that not only had Osama Bin Laden’s face morphing into mine but also questioned my “courage to lead.” I felt at the time that surely, my service and my sacrifice in Vietnam would be seen in a more positive light than that of Mr. Chambliss’s, who was forced to miss the war with a bum knee. …
That’s the ad Chambliss ran, in case you don’t remember it. It still makes me furious all these years later. Chambliss defined swiftboating with this ad against Cleland.
McCain just went up in Georgia with advertising. Obama’s strength is making him defend that state. Jim Martin and Saxby Chambliss are in a real battle.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution had this to say on Sunday: Chambliss defeat would be justified.
Max is right. Georgia deserves better. The United States Senate deserves better than Chambliss. Sending him back to Georgia would be sweet.
