The comic strip "Doonesbury" is offering $10 thousand to anyone who can prove President Bush served in the Alabama Air National Guard. Readers are sent to the comic's website and asked to fill out a Witness Registration Form. The site says Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau is underwriting the contest, "thanks to Bush's massive tax cuts for people who don't need them." But before you swear up and down, left and right that you have evidence of the president's service, remember there's always a catch. The winner will not actually receive the money. Instead, it will be donated in the winner's name to the United Service Organization. The White House had no comment on the contest.
Ummm. Nothing like a cartoonist with his eye on the pulse of current events. Well maybe not so current. Maybe next he can jump on the mystery of where Jimmy Hoffa is.
The catch, clearly is not that he plans to donate to the USO, (I'd hardly consider this a catch) but rather that you know damned well going in he will accept virtually NOTHING as proof.
Particularly, given the proof that's been already provided.
Posted by: Bithead | February 25, 2004 at 06:43 PM