Posted on 02/29/2016 1:47:17 AM PST by RaceBannon
Interesting list. Curious that Norwegian parliamentarians want to endorse U.S. presidential candidates. Several GOP candidates have such endorsements from Norway.
That is a long list. Many I know. Many I don’t. But far too many are so establishment that it screams the fact that Cruz is a lifelong government employee. I do congratulate him on the positive, non GOPe endorsements.
This election is about more than endorsements. This election is finally about what the average American, whose name few know, wants for America.
Even Trump’s endorsements are second to We The People who are finally speaking in mass. I don’t need anyone to tell me who to vote for. I will decide. I am so tired of watching acquaintances wait to see who endorses a candidate to make a decision that should be from their heart.
There’s a Trump coloring book, too. LOL
To be fair having a draft lotto number of 356 (by Trump’s account) doesn’t make him a Draft dodger, it makes him lucky.
If we look at how Clinton scammed the system, Trump doesn’t even come close.
Clinton deliberately lied about his intentions to serve in the US Army and the US Navy and actively courted an appointment into A ROTC program run by a True American war hero and survivor of the Bataan death march, as well as tremendous pressure from a sitting US senator on his draft board to “earn” a bogus deferment, to only to use that deferment to run off to London and Moscow to protest the war on Foreign Soil with groups run by the KGB.
September 7, 1992. Memorandum for Record:
Subject: Bill Clinton and the University of Arkansas ROTC Program:
There have been many unanswered questions as to the circumstances surrounding Bill Clinton’s involvement with the ROTC department at the University of Arkansas. Prior to this time I have not felt the necessity for discussing the details. The reason I have not done so before is that my poor physical health (a consequence of participation in the Bataan Death March and the subsequent three and a half years interment in Japanese POW camps) has precluded me from getting into what I felt was unnecessary involvement. However, present polls show that there is the imminent danger to our country of a draft dodger becoming Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States. While it is true, as Mr. Clinton has stated, that there were many others who avoided serving their country in the Vietnam war, they are not aspiring to be the President of the United States.
The tremendous implications of the possibility of his becoming Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces compels me now to comment on the facts concerning Mr. Clinton’s evasion of the draft. This account would not have been imperative had Bill Clinton been completely honest with the American public concerning this matter. But as Mr. Clinton replied on a news conference this evening (September 5, 1992) after being asked another particular about his dodging the draft,
“Almost everyone concerned with these incidents are dead. I have no more comments to make”. Since I may be the only person living who can give a first hand account of what actually transpired, I am obligated by my love for my country and my sense of duty to divulge what actually happened and make it a matter of record.
Bill Clinton came to see me at my home in 1969 to discuss his desire to enroll in the ROTC program at the University of Arkansas. We engaged in an extensive, approximately two (2) hour interview. At no time during this long conversation about his desire to join the program did he inform me of his involvement, participation and actually organizing protests against the United States involvement in South East Asia. He was shrewd enough to realize that had I been aware of his activities, he would not have been accepted into the ROTC program as a potential officer in the United States Army.
The next day I began to receive phone calls regarding Bill Clinton’s draft status. I was informed by the draft board that it was of interest to Senator Fullbright’s office that Bill Clinton, a Rhodes Scholar, should be admitted to the ROTC program. I received several such calls. The general message conveyed by the draft board to me was that Senator Fullbright’s office was putting pressure on them and that they needed my help. I then made the necessary arrangements to enroll Mr. Clinton into the ROTC
program at the University of Arkansas.
I was not “saving” him from serving his country, as he erroneously thanked me for in his letter from England (dated December 3,1969). I was making it possible for a Rhodes Scholar to serve in the military as an officer. In retrospect I see that Mr. Clinton had no intention of following through with his agreement to join the Army ROTC program at the University of Arkansas or to attend the University of Arkansas Law School. I had explained to him the necessity of enrolling at the University of Arkansas as a student in order to be eligible to take the ROTC program at the University. He never enrolled at the University of Arkansas, but instead enrolled at Yale after attending Oxford. I believe that he purposely deceived me, using the possibility of joining the
ROTC as a ploy to work with the draft board to delay his induction and get a new draft classification.
The December 3rd letter written to me by Mr. Clinton, and subsequently taken from the files by Lt. Col. Clint Jones, my executive officer, was placed into the ROTC files so that a record would be available in case the applicant should again petition to enter the ROTC program. The information in that letter alone would have restricted Bill Clinton from ever qualifying to be an officer in the United States Military. Even more significant was his lack of veracity in purposefully defrauding the military by deceiving me, both in concealing his anti-military activities overseas and his counterfeit intentions for later military service. These actions cause me to question both his patriotism and his integrity. When I consider the caliber, the bravery, and the patriotism of the fine young soldiers whose deaths I have witnessed, and others whose funerals I have attended.... When I reflect on not only the willingness but eagerness that so many of them displayed in their earnest desire to defend and serve their country, it is untenable and incomprehensible to me that a man who was not merely unwilling to serve his country, but actually protested against its military, should ever be in the position of Commander-in-Chief of our armed Forces.
I write this declaration not only for the living and future generations, but for those who fought and died for our country. If space and time permitted I would include the names of the ones I knew and fought with, and along with them I would mention my brother Bob, who was killed during World War II and is buried in Cambridge, England (at the age of 23, about the age Bill Clinton was when he was over in England protesting the war). I have agonized over whether or not to submit this statement to the American people. But, I realize that even though I served my country by being in the military for over 32 years, and having gone through the ordeal of months of combat under the worst of conditions followed by years of imprisonment by the Japanese,it is not enough. I’m writing these comments to let everyone know that I love my country more than I do my own personal security and well-being. I will go to my grave loving these United States of America and the liberty for which so many men have
fought and died. Because of my poor physical condition this will be my final statement. I will make no further comments to any of the media regarding this issue.
Eugene Holmes
Colonel, U.S.A., Ret.
September 1992
Am I to assume that you have information on Donald Trump that rises to the level of Bill Clinton’s duplicity when it comes to avoiding the draft?
I guess the best way to prove Cruz is the anti-establishment candidate, is to trot out all the establishment professional politicians, who are all talk and no action, who support him.
We’ve had too many lawyers turned politicians who are in it to line their pockets.
This is from THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS:
A Trump presidency threatens the post-World War II liberal international order that American presidents of both parties have so laboriously built up — an order based on free trade and alliances with other democracies.
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Proves what we’ve been saying. It is a Uniparty designed to usher in Unigovernment.
Cruz and Rubio don’t upset the CFR’s plans. Trump does.
And all of these “endorsers” have delivered ONE victory to saint Ted of Goldman. I bet Saint Ted wishes he had Sessions endorsement.
So when did Cruz and Rubio serve in the military? Maybe they couldn’t because they weren’t citizens???
We’ll see where ‘endorsements’ get candidates this year...
I think you missed one of Trump’s endorsers: David Duke.
So when did Cruz and Rubio serve in the military? Maybe they couldn’t because they weren’t citizens???There was no war, and no draft, when Cruz and Rubio became old enough to serve. But you know that.
Trump was a draft dodger. His "medical conditions" magically disappeared once he was no longer in danger of being drafted.
Quite a lot to look through. Can you tell me how many of his colleagues in the senate endorse him?
Did Cruz serve in gulf war I. I didn’t see any detail on that. Maybe he served with the royal expeditionary force?
Ben's asse's letter...fixed it for you:)
and with all that he’s still a loser.. doesn’t say much for Cruz as a candidate
Gotta give Cruz props for earning the coveted Clint Howard endorsement. That’s a game changer right there.
Don’t you know it is so much easier to become a US senator like Obama did...
Fact: David Duke was a democrat when he was in the Klan.
Fact: David Duke left the Klan almost 40 Years ago.
Fact: when David Duke ran as a Republican for the Presidency He won a higher percentage of votes that most of the candidates running this election cycle.
Fact: David Duke left the Klan before The Blues Brothers movie was released(1980).
I am no fan of David Duke by a long shot but using him to attack a Republican is a democrat’s gambit.
Hey - before I forget to ask - Where is the Cruzer foam party gonna be on Wednesday?
I understand Eric Cartman will be in attendance to taste the sweet, sweet tears.
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