Cleland\Blitzer Transcript Here:

[WillyT]

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BLITZER: I thought you just suggested there should be a cease- fire on these charges and countercharges.

CLELAND: But you just heard Senator Frist say not only no, but hell no. So this will continue. And it started with Bush going after John McCain in South Carolina when Bush got in trouble. Bush is in trouble now. He's got a failed war on his hands. And he has got a bona fide, authentic Vietnam American hero coming at him. And this war has only started.

BLITZER: Is it smart for John Kerry right now to be seemingly on the defensive and explain what did he when he came back from Vietnam, whether he threw his ribbons or medals across the fence at that anti- war demonstration?

CLELAND: I think it's not smart for President Bush to go after an authentic American hero.

I'm telling you, when you got three Purple Hearts, and that's John Kerry, and you're George Bush, you got none, if you are John Kerry you got a Bronze Star with V Device for Valor for saving a special forces officer out of the drink in Mekong Delta, and you're George Bush, you got none, and if you have got a Silver Star for gallantry in action for saving your boat and your crew in the Mekong Delta in the war of your generation and George Bush never left the shores of Texas, it doesn't seem like that the odds are very fair there.

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Link: http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0404/28/wbr.01.html

For those who missed the show!

Enjoy!!!

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[madmax]

1. Thanks Willy T

:loveya: :toast:

[newsguyatl]

2. it was a damn good interview

cleland just NAILED it... he learned his lesson in '02, and boy he's not holding back anymore...

he's a great surrogate for kerry and i hope we'll be seeing more of him...


he's gonna make a great secretary of defense eh?

[Cleita]

6. Yes, n/t

[LittleApple81]

3. Well, I looked at the entire transcript. Cleland got a very short

time compared to the rest of the program. And then Blitzer says we will get a different perspective tomorrow with Evans.
CNN is really a right wing shill.

[Bleacher Creature]

4. Great stuff

When this is all said and done, Kerry's gonna owe Cleland BIG time. He's been there every step of the way and is a way better surrogate than that piece of crap Cheney is for Chimpy.

I have no idea if VP is a possibility, but I wouldn't rule him out.

[Catherine Vincent]

5. Max Cleland was the BOMB!

That's all I have to say.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

7. Is Blitzer an objective reporter? The Iron-Man of TV Journalism?

"HELL NO!"

That's the first time I've heard (or read) a politician ever say "hell no"...my regards go out to Mr. Cleland! Dayumn, keep it up, son!

[Cleita]

8. What is that iron man crap anyway?

Every now and then CNN throws that in, all I can think of is pottery, perhaps made of clay?

[DeepModem Mom]

9. kick

[WillyT]

10. Kick !!!

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