Posted on 10/25/2010 5:44:07 PM PDT by khnyny
Twenty-four years in the military doesn't count as public service, at least according to Virginia Democratic Congressman Jim Moran.
In a video that's gone viral online, Moran is heard telling a Democratic gathering earlier this month that his opponent, Republican Patrick Murray, is just another unqualified GOP candidate.
"What [Republicans] do is find candidates, usually stealth candidates, that haven't been in office, haven't served or performed in any kind of public service," Moran said. "My opponent is typical, frankly."
The trouble is, Murray is a retired Army colonel with 24 years of service--including combat in Iraq. The idea that such an extensive military record doesn't qualify as "public service" has left a sour taste in Murray's mouth.
Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/10/22/dem-candidate-veteran-military-service-isnt-public-service#ixzz13Q7uptQL
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He has a really ruddy complexion like a serious drunk. I wonder if he is?
Seems to me that public service is defined as having a job that entails getting a check from a government entity. As such, military service is very clearly a public service.
Maybe Moran defines public service as elected offices only. I am quite sure the government union workers would disagree.
The only other option is that he has such disdain for the military that in his eyes, they do not count as much as gov’t bureaucrats.
BTTT
There is a view held by some Democrats, notably some here in Minnestoopid, that those with military background should not be allowed to participate in the political process. Exceptions of course for the likes of the Murtha(censored) (censored traitor).
Is his name really “moron” or does he just sound like one?
you really know how to tug at a jarhead’s heart ;-)
I utterly detest Democrats. I really do.
Moran=Moron..nuff said?
Too funny!
“You flunked lunch at Harvard didn’t you?”
Mrs. RQSR laughed at that, and said “that’s the reason he won’t release his records.”
Amazing. Military Service is the most public service imaginable.
This Moron guy is detestable.
I wonder if Moran defended his slapping around a black child as a “public service”?
Well said! (applause)
The very worst background for an elective seat in government, imo, is in some government bureaucracy, then in some legal bureaucracy, and then in some foundation or social service agency.
The best preparation is real world experience in business, the military, research and development, and medical/legal personal practices.
Don’t be fooled. Their real view is that no one who is not a doctrinaire liberal leftist should participate in the political process.
Those tolerant liberals can tolerate anything...as long as it conforms to liberal orthodoxy.
Because these creeps keep getting reelected, they get to thinking that they are doing their constituents a favor by breathing.
some things never change. Here is a reply, from back when there were Democrats who aren’t copperheads, that bears repeating:
This is a GREAT quote/speech from John Glenn from many years ago..
Senator Metzenbaum to John Glenn: “How can you run for Senate when you’ve never held a real “job”?”
John Glenn: “I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions. I was in the space program.
It wasn’t my checkbook; it was my Life on the line. It was not a 9 to 5 job where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank. I ask you to go with me...as I went the other day... to a Veterans Hospital and look at those men with their mangled bodies in the eye and tell them they didn’t hold a job. You go with me to the space program and go as I have gone to the widows and orphans of Ed White and Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee and you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their dad didn’t hold a job. You go with me on Memorial Day coming up, and you stand in Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends than I’d like to remember and you watch those waving flags, and you stand there, and you think about this nation, and you tell me that those people didn’t have a job. I’ll tell you, Howard Metzenbaum, you should be on your knees every day of your life thanking God that there were some men SOME MEN - who held a job. And they required a dedication to purpose and a love of country and a dedication to duty that was more important than life itself. And their self-sacrifice is what made this country possible. I HAVE HELD A JOB, HOWARD! What about you?”
Good response from a nice guy. However, Glenn is another example of the sort of politician whose military service gives them a sense of entitlement to his office regardless of what he does in office. Other examples: McCain, Murtha, Rangel....
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