Re: The 2012 Presidential Election Part I - The guns of August
Bob just dresses up like Sarah Palin. He's not actually her.
Like Old Pio's neocon view of the world. Its sorta like watching that "Back to the 80's" show on VH1. I can almost hear the line "Murdoch.....I'm coming for YOU" from Rambo II playing in the background. Its even complete with the whole Clinton not serving thing, which is great because he never mentions Cheney's 4 deferrments, while also skipping over Kerry's heroic service which was slimed by sleazy conservatives. Then he wonders why military service doesn't command the respect it once did. Talk to your own party OP.
Okay, so Clinton AND Cheney were draft dodgers. But so far as I know only one of them lied to get a deferrmenrt. Anyone who didn't live through that period and wasn't vulnerable to the draft just can't understand what was going on then. Hundreds (thousands?) of Americans ran off to Canada. So many that in the J. Geils song "Hard Driving Man," Peter Wolf refers to "old 51."
You really ought to try reading my posts sometime. It will enlighten you and go a long way toward lifting the terrible burden of that ignorance you tote around like a hod carrier. Just a couple of days ago I said Kerry served honorably and even bravely in Vietnam. As did tens of thousands of others. He did, however, inflate his wartime CV just a tad. Such as claiming Nixon had sent him to Cambodia in December of '68, when Nixon didn't become president 'til January of '69.
One of the really durable myths to have emerged from that campaign was that the so-called "swift boating" of Kerry had any impact at all on the outcome. There's no evidence that it did. Kerry's problem was not his service, it was what he did when he returned that disqualified him, IMO, from ever being president.
He slandered and libeled tens of thousands of GIs who served just as honorably and just as bravely as he did, in order to advance his political career. He introduced false information (derived from the so-called Winter Soldier hearings) into the congressional record. He was given huge media coverage: anti-war, officer, hero, Yalie, etc. The fact that many of the pathetic losers who "testified" about so-called atrocities they'd seen in Vietnam had never served in our military, let alone in Vietnam, was another of Kerry's "mere details."
In order to impress the rubes, Kerry testified before the Senate out of uniform: wearing ribbons on a class C uniform. Later, in a gigantic anti-war photo-op he "gave back" his medals. It was later that we learned he was lying. He'd only given back the ribbons, not the medals. But, hey, he was onstage and he had a career to think about.
The guy made his service in Vietnam the centerpiece of his campaign. After twenty years or so in the Senate, we were supposed to look instead to what he did in his 20s as guidance for what kind of POTUS he'd make. You know, if we elected war heroes, then Audie Murphy and Sergeant York might have made good presidents. He was, as the saying goes, hoist on his own petard.
Military service always commands respect, except from people like you.
