Did Obama even register for the draft?
Good point. We need to START NOW in holding the media accountable for not ‘MAINTAINING A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD’ (in the words of 0bama) when it comes to vetting Romney but overlooking the many mysteries of 0bama solely because he’s black and don’t want to alienate their ONLY broadcast television viewers.
Of course they left out it was okay for Billy Clinton to
be Prez without military service.
I’d match Mitt Romney’s military service against Barack Hussein Obama’s any day....
Obamamugabe fought on the streets of Chi-congo. Now if that isn’t a war zone, then .....
Maybe Obama once stayed at a Holliday Inn Express near a military base.
Playing golf while Osama bin Laden gets greased constitutes ‘military service’?
Where’s the same headline for Dear Leader?
I agree. But the situations are very different. Romney should have fought in Vietnam 100 percent. Anybody getting a deferment for school is a disgrace during that time. Obama was sucking on his mother’s ta-ta at the time.
Did they scrutinize Ubama Bin Barack’s military experience?
At least Mitt Romney has a VALID draft registration card!!
I am so freakin’ happy that Romney’s gonna be the last (male) Vietnam-era candidate, probably. Then we can stop pretedning there’s much difference between Clinton/Bush/Romney’s dodging and Kerry/Gore’s PR trips, or McCain’s heroic ordeal and Obama’s being too young for that one but not the myriad other wars since.
I mean to say there’s NOT a difference between McCain’s fighting and Obama happening to not be of age for a draft. Which is to say if it’s a good thing for Kerry, for instance, to have gone it should redound positively on McCain even though Obama was not forced to dodge because there wasn’t a draft.
Liberal Romney was demonstrating (photographed) for the pro-war side yet admits that he had no intention of enlisting or serving. George Romney ran as the republican anti-war presidential candidate in 1968 while Mitt was living in France.
This would not be a Romney thread without his mirror quotes included so here they are.
May 2, 1994. "I was not planning on signing up for the military. It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam"
2007 "I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam."
Well, speaking as someone who went and got shot at some, I’d say Romney showed better judgement than I did - considering how the military and political leadership pissed the whole thing away.
Or maybe he was just lucky, always a good trait in a president.