(VIDEO) Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes on getting Bush into the National Guard (VIDEO)

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sorry for the swipe but this needs to get around.

Tx. Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, in a speech, says he got George Bush in the National Guard as a favor to a privileged kid.

Let's talk a minute about John Kerry and George Bush and I know them both. And I'm not name dropping to say I know `em both. I got a young man named George W. Bush in the National Guard when I was Lt. Gov. of Texas and I'm not necessarily proud of that. But I did it. And I got a lot of other people into the National Guard because I thought that was what people should do, when you're in office you helped a lot of rich people. And I walked through the Vietnam Memorial the other day 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 that I did was that I helped 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.

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