http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2005/06/democrats-desperately-desire-draft.html
Joseph Biden, the top Democrat of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the prediction after new data released by the Pentagon showed the US Army failing to meet its recruitment targets for four straight months.
“We’re going to have to face that question,” Biden said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” television show when asked if it was realistic to expect restoration of the draft.
“The truth of the matter is, it is going to become a subject, if, in fact, there’s a 40 percent shortfall in recruitment. It’s just a reality,” he said.
THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO HAVE TALKED ABOUT A DRAFT IN THE LAST 4 YEARS—and even introduced a measure into Congress to re-instate it— ARE THE DEMOCRATS. (see here, and here for example)The Republicans have insisted that they have no plans for one. The military have insisted repeatedly that they have no plans for one.
Agree w/you. However, we should also note that the dropoff in recruitment has happened after the Sept. 15 stock market crash — when it became apparent that Obama was going to win the presidency. What man or woman who really wants to serve would want to serve under a President Obama as their Commander-in-Chief.
Was joking with a friend of mine — another former military person — about whether Obama actually knew how to salute yet. He suggests the MSM will use computer generated imagery to simulate the O salute.