Posted on 08/24/2008 1:29:47 PM PDT by jokyfo
Anyone know how Biden got out of the draft during the Vietnam War?
i dont’ know, but maybe we’ll be finding out.
The Lord was protecting our armed forces .
Hmmm... I believe he was born in ‘42 so maybe too old???
We got Elvis .
“Biden avoided service in Viet Nam claiming asthma related wheezing”
http://www.whoserved.com/state.asp?st=DE&type=SEN
We got lucky?
Your question within the body answered your question asked in the heading. He was able to avoid having to go to Vietnam.
Now, were you insinuating that he was deceitful in not going? Was that question rhetorical? My dad did not have to go to Vietnam, but nobody ever questioned whether he was deceitful.
I forgot...welcome to Free Republic.
Huffing spray paint will cause one to wheeze also.
Is your dad running for VP of the U.S.?
Will your dad be out on the hustings disparaging George Bush?
I'm sure there are people here who wonder if there is anything to Biden's missing not just the war, but even getting drafted. After all, look at what the media did to Bush because, even though he served, he didn't go to Nam.
Just looking for ammunition, that's all. Don't get defensive.
I had a friend who's draft number came up, but he didn't go, as the war ended right after that (I'm three years younger than him, so I was never even close).
Obama’s candidacy is getting more and more ridiculous every day. His VP pick is disastrous.
If Obama was a real and smart candidate, he would have chosen a VP…
1) from the South, to attract swing voters there (especially in Virginia and Missouri). No Democratic candidates has EVER won the White House without the South. Even JFK chose Johnson to win Southern hearts.
2) a candidate capable to attact attention to Obama’s qualities, and not defaults. Every times Biden will speak about foreign policies, Obama will look childish !
3) a candidate who could attract Hillary’s voters. What do they care of Biden, tell me ??
4) a candidate who represents the same “change” Obama is commiting to the American people. Biden is like McCain. Obama just lost the “change” logo for a more conventional candidacy.
drzz
If your dad did not dodge the draft what are you worrying about?
The Obamessiah was already born and working his miracles at that time. Didn’t you ever hear of the one he performed by sparing Joe Biden from the ravages of war?
Well he’s been a politician for the last hundred years so maybe that was his excuse.
Good work on your blog.
The title of this vanity thread makes no sense. He didn’t go to Vietnam, so yes, he dodged the draft. Now, the author of this vanity thread may not have known that he dodged the draft, but his question within the body of the thread proves that he/she did know that Biden dodged the draft. So, the threat is moot.
Now, since I know that he/she wasn’t just asking if Biden dodged the draft, and was really claiming that Biden was deceitful in not having to go, he/she should have been a little more thoughtful in the title of the thread. Since the author is insinuating that Biden was deceitful, he should just declare in the title that Biden was deceitful, followed by proof.
He did dodge the draft. The definition of dodge is to avoid. That does not mean he avoided with deceitfulness. He did not have to go, therefore by definition he dodged the draft.
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