VA-Sen: A racist and a liar. New Allen commercial claims that Webb only served in the Reagan Administration for 10 months, when he actually did so for four years. Eight months as Secretary of the Navy, the rest of that time as an Assistant Secretary of Defense. Obviously, that ad with the Reagan endorsement has drawn blood and is driving the Allen folks crazy.
This is a bald-faced lie from our Senator. If he has any morals or values - he'd take down this ad immediately.
Of course, the PATs always dig up the one or two quotes they can find that seem to counteract the truth.
That's OK, people are smart enough to figure that out, and the press is slamming Allen's new Anti-Reagan ad.
Will you take that bet?
I don't think this is an issue that will affect the election. Voters are smarter than that. This is nothing but a Swiftboat attempt and this boat won't float.
It is only the hysterical Allen supporters who fast forward Reagan's deep appreciation of Webb, for all to see, and somehow turn this into a political endorsement from the grave on 2006.
Why do you think Virginians are too stupid to understand the obvious while your team uses a slick and contradictory ad to intentionally mislead?
FYI, I am one of those not happy about the use of Reagan to begin with.
Oh, another 5 Americans and another 130 Iraqis dead. (Though the GOP doesn't really care about non-Americans.)
By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 9 minutes agoIraqi security forces will dig trenches around Baghdad and set up checkpoints along all roads leading into the city to try to reduce some of the violence plaguing the capital, the Interior Ministry said Friday.
A U.S. Marine was killed Friday in Anbar province, and an American soldier was killed Thursday evening by a roadside bomb northwest of Baghdad, the military said. Five American soldiers died Thursday, making it an especially bloody day for U.S. forces.***
The plan to dig trenches around Baghdad will be implemented in coming weeks, Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Kareem Khalaf told The Associated Press.
It comes as more than 130 people were slain in two days — either killed in attacks or tortured and dumped in rivers or on the city's streets.
The Reagan ad's speech is from 1985. RONALD REAGAN says that Webb was in his adminstartion as Assistant Secretary of Defense as of 1985. This is before he was Secretary of the Navy. I believe that this is like two years before the Navy post.
How dare George Allen accuse RONALD REAGAN of lying in a TV ad.
Goerge Aleen is no RONALD REAGAN
Here is a piece of the article
In the letter from Reagan's Presidential Library, the writer, JoAnn Drake, called the 30-second ad very negative. In fact, it only shows Reagan saying positive things about Webb's military service in Vietnam. The ad can be viewed at www.webbforsenate.com/ads.
"There's not one negative word in that ad," Webb said. "It's a positive ad."
The Allen campaign issued a blistering press release about the flap, accusing Webb of treating Reagan's widow with "unbelievable disrespect" for not pulling the ad.
However, Allen's campaign also used an image of Reagan in a campaign flyer that was sent to homes in Northern Virginia over the weekend. The flyer features a photo of a young Allen standing alongside the former president.
It is not known if Allen had permission to use the image of Reagan, as neither his campaign spokesman or the Reagan Presidential Library returned phone calls Monday.