Max Cleland: 'I Cried Uncontrollably for 2 1/2 Years' Posted: on Politics Daily 10/6/09 by Melinda Henneberger
Senator Cleland’s re-election loss in 2002 is the stuff of revisionist history. The “famed ad” ran one time and was pulled. His service and sacrifice in Vietnam is to be admired. I keep him in my prayers for his courageous battle against depression.
However, his senatorial representation for his constituents in Georgia was nuanced and flawed. He lost for good reasons for which he has never taken personal responsibility.
And his vile diatribes about folks in the Bush administration is not the sophist stuff or commentary that earns one respect.
Read: December 21, 2005 Who is Max Cleland? Kevin E. Dayhoff http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=1395 And trust me, for every mean thing I wrote, a half-dozen much nastier remarks were held back by my shriveled but nevertheless functional sense of decency.
While you’re at it re-read: January 4, 2006 A Tale of Two Introductions Kevin E. Dayhoff http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=1416
Max Cleland: 'I Cried Uncontrollably for 2 1/2 Years' Posted: on Politics Daily 10/6/09 by Melinda Henneberger
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In a phone interview on Monday, former Georgia Sen. Max Cleland was upbeat – "What's goin' on, kid?'' – and quick to laugh. But after losing his U.S. Senate seat to an opponent who ran post-9/11 TV ads that showed the decorated Vietnam vet alongside Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, Cleland fell into a depression he was afraid he might not pull out of. It was public service, he says, that had given his life shape and meaning after he left three limbs on a battlefield in Khe Sanh. But without that role, the old darkness came back. Along with his job and his bearings, he lost his relationship with his fiancée. "That's emotionally and physically over,'' he told me. "That's gone.'' And for a time, he was once again a patient at Walter Reed, where he'd first been put back together nearly four decades earlier – and was now surrounded by vets from Iraq and Afghanistan: "I cried uncontrollably for 2 ½ years.''
Read the rest here: Max Cleland: 'I Cried Uncontrollably for 2 1/2 Years' Posted: on Politics Daily 10/6/09 by Melinda Henneberger
Oh, be sure to read the comments – they are particular vile.
Senator Cleland’s re-election loss in 2002 is the stuff of revisionist history. The “famed ad” ran one time and was pulled. His service and sacrifice in Vietnam is to be admired. I keep him in my prayers for his courageous battle against depression.
However, his senatorial representation for his constituents in Georgia was nuanced and flawed. He lost for good reasons for which he has never taken personal responsibility.
And his vile diatribes about folks in the Bush administration is not the sophist stuff or commentary that earns one respect.
Read: December 21, 2005 Who is Max Cleland? Kevin E. Dayhoff http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=1395 And trust me, for every mean thing I wrote, a half-dozen much nastier remarks were held back by my shriveled but nevertheless functional sense of decency.
While you’re at it re-read: January 4, 2006 A Tale of Two Introductions Kevin E. Dayhoff http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=1416
Max Cleland: 'I Cried Uncontrollably for 2 1/2 Years' Posted: on Politics Daily 10/6/09 by Melinda Henneberger
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/10/06/max-cleland-i-cried-uncontrollably-for-2-1-2-years/?icid=mainhtmlws-maindl3link3http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/10/06/max-cleland-i-cried-uncontrollably-for-2-1-2-years/#comments
In a phone interview on Monday, former Georgia Sen. Max Cleland was upbeat – "What's goin' on, kid?'' – and quick to laugh. But after losing his U.S. Senate seat to an opponent who ran post-9/11 TV ads that showed the decorated Vietnam vet alongside Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, Cleland fell into a depression he was afraid he might not pull out of. It was public service, he says, that had given his life shape and meaning after he left three limbs on a battlefield in Khe Sanh. But without that role, the old darkness came back. Along with his job and his bearings, he lost his relationship with his fiancée. "That's emotionally and physically over,'' he told me. "That's gone.'' And for a time, he was once again a patient at Walter Reed, where he'd first been put back together nearly four decades earlier – and was now surrounded by vets from Iraq and Afghanistan: "I cried uncontrollably for 2 ½ years.''
Read the rest here: Max Cleland: 'I Cried Uncontrollably for 2 1/2 Years' Posted: on Politics Daily 10/6/09 by Melinda Henneberger
Oh, be sure to read the comments – they are particular vile.
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