In saying they are wrong, he proves them right

by: Thurman Hart

Fri Oct 31, 2008 at 10:23:39 AM EDT

On the 19th of this month, the Atlantic City Press endorsed John Adler, saying this about Republican candidate Chris Myers:

...he has run a disturbingly combative and negative campaign, and too often merely parrots Republican talking points on foreign policy, trickle-down economics and other issues.
Myers also has come close to calling Adler corrupt, which he is not, and has unfairly tried to paint Adler, a state senator since 1992, as a rubber-stamp for Trenton Democrats.

Chris Myers proves the AC Press as prescient when he writes to tell them how stupid they are. Combative and negative from the first word, he can barely wait to tie John Adler to Trenton. Way to prove them ~~wrong~~ right, Chris!

I guess the AC Press missed the part where Myers likes to pad his resume. Not only does he still talk up his US Navy waiver of combat duty, but now he is a defense mogul, too:

As a vice president at Lockheed Martin, I've helped to create thousands of jobs and balanced a budget.

Oh yeah? Make the jump. I got my stupid-bat out and I'm swinging for the upper deck

Thurman Hart :: In saying they are wrong, he proves them right

Myers claiming to have "balanced a budget" and "helped to create thousands of jobs" is like Moses' little brother claiming to have made a map of the path to the Promised Land. He's simply claiming credit for something someone else has done. Namely, he's claiming that he's responsible for what might be called "war profiteering".

Consider pre-war Lockheed's situation:

Lockheed Martin?s tumultuous time last year was tough on more than just shareholders.
Vance Coffman, Lockheed's chief executive officer, also took a hit in the wallet.
The aerospace and defense giant?s board of directors withheld a 1999 bonus for Coffman at his request because Lockheed had a year of "serious program and financial performance issues," according to a company statement released Wednesday by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

That was 2000 - before we invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. Now? It's a different story:

The chief executive of defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. received compensation last year valued at $24.1 million, almost unchanged from 2006, as he was awarded fewer stock options but saw his pay and perks rise amid record defense spending.

Yes, Chris Myers managed to balance a budget and create jobs when the federal government dumped millions, if not billions, of dollars into the company for which he works. But Myers was not, and is not, responsible for that.

But this is a guy who continues to stretch the waiver of combat duty he received to equate himself with the wounded veterans who are coming home now. For some reason, he doesn't mention his "anti-terra-ism" job - perhaps because he never showed up for that job. I guess there is a limit to which the Crapmeister Flash can stretch the truth.

Myers claims:

I will fight for universal access to affordable health care for all Americans and will flatly reject any proposal that calls for costly, government-run socialized medicine.

Um. I smell a red herring. Which candidate is talking about nationalizing our hospitals and running thems as non-profit governmental centers? Yeah, I didn't think anyone was. This is just another stupid right-wing talking point.

Wasn't that what the AC Press said was wrong with him? Oh, yeah. I guess so.

And, when Myers says "affordable", does he mean for people like himself, pulling in $350,000 a year, and his boss, raking in $25 million or so? Would he know "affordable" if it jumped up and ripped a Franklin out of his tophat? Color me skeptical.