"NOYB" wrote in message link.net...
Without providing the context, that quote makes no sense at all.


"Jim" wrote in message
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I thought that was what people should do when
you're in office, and you help a lot of rich people."
-Ben Barnes, a former lieutenant governor of Texas,


Maybe this will help:

"Let's talk a minute about John Kerry and George Bush, and I know them
both," said Barnes in the video, which was filmed at a gathering of about
200 Kerry supporters in Austin on May 27. "I got a young man named George W.
Bush into the Texas National Guard when I was lieutenant governor, and I'm
not necessarily proud of that. But I did it. I got a lot of other people in
the National Guard because I thought that was what people should do when
you're in office, and you help a lot of rich people."

"And I walked to the Vietnam Memorial the other day," Barnes continued, "and
I looked at the names of the people that died in Vietnam, and I became more
ashamed of myself than I have ever been, because it was the worst thing I
ever did, was help a lot of wealthy supporters and a lot of people who had
family names of importance get into the National Guard. And I'm very sorry
about that, and I'm very ashamed, and I apologize to you as voters of
Texas."

Barnes then condemned the Republican attacks on John Kerry's war service:
"And I tell you that for the Republicans to jump on John Kerry and say that
he is not a patriot after he went to Vietnam and was shot at and fought for
our freedom and came back here and protested against the war, he's a
flip-flopper, let me tell you: John Kerry is a 100 times better patriot than
George Bush or Dick Cheney."