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But he trashes Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia as a 'deservedly obscure' Congressman homegrown democrat who (Germond claims)questioned the homegrown democrat patriotism of then Senator homegrown democrat Max Cleland in the 2002 Georgia Senate race. Germond paints a fraudulent portrait of Cleland as war hero who lost three limbs on the battlefield (Germond fails to mention that Cleland himself admits he lost them in a party atmosphere, not during an attack) and Chambliss questioned Cleland's service. Chambliss, for those who may not know, simply pointed out that Cleland was putting his own interests - re-election with the union vote - ahead of the national interest in the wake of post-09/11. At no time did Chambliss allege that Cleland was not a war hero or didn't go to Vietnam, but one gets that idea from Germond's fraudulent picture. Germond also failed to point out that Chambliss would have never been elected in the first place without a third-party candidate siphoning votes from his Republican opponent (Cleland only won 49% of the 1996 Senate race vote).
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