NEBRASKA BLUE

Richard Carter one of two Democratic candidates for Congress from Omaha ambushed his opponent Jim Esch yesterday.

Carter Campaign Lets Us Down With Drug Testing Pseudo-Scandal

http://newnebraska.net/showDiary.do?diaryId=962

I’ll let the good post and comments on NNN serve up this story.

I will add that this is a pretty juvenile attempt by Rich Carter to embarass Jim Esch,
and it seriously calls into question his judgement as a leader.

Another point I would like to clarify for the readers here, is the fact that even though Richard was called a “Soldier” by the Reader in it’s article on him, he is NOT a soldier.
Mr. Carter is and was an Electronic Warfare Officer first in the US Air Force and now in the Air Force Reserve at Offutt AFB.

His “Tours” in the combat zones of Iraq and Afghanistan consisted of cruising over those countries at 35,000 feet while ACTUALLY being stationed nowhere NEAR either country, more likely flying daily out of Qatar, in an Electronic Warfare Plane.

His Service while admirable does not give him any special insight on the war as it fought on the ground. Indeed he in all likelyhood got his news and formed his opinions the same way someone here in the US could have, in the papers and by watching the news.
While sitting at the local TGI Fridays sipping a cold beer on Al-Udeid Air base in Qatar.

Regardless of his claims, you don’t see anything “first Hand” from flying over a country
at 35,000 feet.

And his claim as follows -

“No issue has come up more than the War in Iraq; an issue, as a Veteran of the United States Air Force who flew combat reconaissance missions over Iraq and Afghanistan, I am uniquely equipped to lead on.”

Is BULL…….

Real Leaders don’t pull cheap shots on their opponents…