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AP Hammers Romney for Lack Of Military Service
breitbart.com ^ | 6/14/12 | Tony Lee

Posted on 06/14/2012 9:23:11 AM PDT by ColdOne

At the end of May, Gallup released a poll that found Mitt Romney leading President Barack Obama by 24 points, 58% to 34% among veterans, who make up 13% of the population. Romney, who did not serve in the military, was doing better among veterans against Obama than veteran John McCain did. McCain beat Obama by 10 points among veterans in 2008.

A week later, on June 5, the Associated Press conveniently and coincidentally published a story that hammered Romney -- and three generations of his family -- for not having served in the military while giving Obama a pass for not having served.

The AP noted that although Romney was an early supporter of the Vietnam War, he avoided military service at the height of the fighting by seeking and receiving four draft deferments, which included a “a 31-month stretch as a ‘minister of religion’ in France, a classification for Mormon missionaries that the church at the time feared was being overused.”

The story also emphasized that neither Romney’s father nor his sons have served in the military and referenced his father’s comments about having been “brainwashed” in Vietnam. Those comments essentially ended his father’s chances of becoming preside

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1 posted on 06/14/2012 9:23:17 AM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

And Hussein served in what f@cking army? Al Qaeda? In Pakistan in the 1980s?


2 posted on 06/14/2012 9:25:31 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: ColdOne

The hypocrisy is stunning.


3 posted on 06/14/2012 9:25:43 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: ColdOne
Of course, this is a glaring personal deficiency when compared against the sterling military service of his opponent in the upcoming.

No bias at AP. Nah.

4 posted on 06/14/2012 9:25:53 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (My dog, yes. My wife, maybe. My gun....NEVER!)
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To: ColdOne

So the AP is doing this work for the DNC.

Are they doing it pro-bono?

Are they getting paid for it?

Shouldn’t the contract be a matter of public record?


5 posted on 06/14/2012 9:26:49 AM PDT by samtheman (If we want Obamugabe out, we must vote him out.)
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To: ColdOne

But I suppose they have NO PROBLEM with the current CIC with no military experience, sending shouts out to the “his troops” and sending them into combat, like in Libya.


6 posted on 06/14/2012 9:28:17 AM PDT by mountn man (Happiness is not a destination, its a way of life.)
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To: ColdOne

FUBO!!


7 posted on 06/14/2012 9:28:47 AM PDT by goseminoles
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To: samtheman

Well, waddaya’spect from a bunch of former grocers?


8 posted on 06/14/2012 9:29:08 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: ColdOne

Nice try AP.

I work with many military and ex-military. All have far better and more comprehensive educations than your journalist slugs.

NONE would vote for the Obamadork.

We consider him the “Cretin-in-Chief” and have as much respect for him (it) as we do for a t*rd in the road.


9 posted on 06/14/2012 9:29:52 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: ColdOne

Obama was never in an army that didnt involve smoking crack and invading roadside rest stops.

His dad wasn’t even American

But damn that Romney!


10 posted on 06/14/2012 9:31:35 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (If case you are wondering, I'm STILL supporting Newt.)
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To: ColdOne

AP might as well hammer Romney for lack of Community Organizing experience


11 posted on 06/14/2012 9:31:48 AM PDT by C210N ("ask not what the candidate can do for you, ask what you can do for the candidate" (Breitbart, 2012))
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And Hussein served in what f@cking army?

Don't be silly. He served in this "army": new black panther party

12 posted on 06/14/2012 9:32:04 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: ColdOne

Most people I’m sure are much more willing to give a guy a pass because he got a deferment due to religious obligations versus a guy who was just a pothead slacker.


13 posted on 06/14/2012 9:32:37 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: ColdOne
That kinda opens up that whole “fake Selective Service registration” imbroglio for Mr. Obama, doesn't it?
14 posted on 06/14/2012 9:32:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: ColdOne

Obama didn’t serve. Don’t remember them bringing that up in 2008.


15 posted on 06/14/2012 9:34:06 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Wings cannot be redistributed, they can only be broken. ~ Oleg Atbashian (People's Cube))
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To: ColdOne

What was General Obama’s reaction?


16 posted on 06/14/2012 9:34:06 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: ColdOne

Suddenly the AP cares about presidential candidates having a history of military service. I’m trying to find the AP articles blasting Obama for his lack of service, but someone must have pulled them from the internet...I’m sure there were dozens.


17 posted on 06/14/2012 9:34:23 AM PDT by RavenATB ("Destroy the family and you destroy the country!" ~Vladimir Lenin)
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To: ColdOne

Huh? This is so stupid. This is all they’ve got?

And Barry served when?

Bill Clinton served when?

Oh, John Kerry served in VietNam, I think !


18 posted on 06/14/2012 9:34:32 AM PDT by Reagan69 (I supported Sarah Palin and all I got was a lousy DVD !)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

MY THOUGHT EXACTLY! Let’s look into O-BLAME-O’s past a bit now that the door is open.


19 posted on 06/14/2012 9:34:43 AM PDT by Baynative (REMEMBER: Without America there is no free world!)
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To: ColdOne

The Soros/Axelrod smear machine is working overtime trying to find something that will stick. Anything to take peoples’ minds off the abysmal economy under six years of scorched earth Democrat policies, and almost four years in the White House. The variable no longer in play is Obama’s “newness”, since he’s now a very well known quantity.


20 posted on 06/14/2012 9:35:11 AM PDT by SpaceBar (WW)
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