Posted on 09/07/2008 10:26:31 AM PDT by airedale
During a nationally televised news program today, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Barack Obama disclosed he once considered serving in the military. This is a very transparent move to bolster his national security credentials and occurred the day after a release of a Greenberg-Quinlan-Rosner poll that showed a widening credibility gap that the Democratic Party has with the voters over national security issues.
Obama is also running against John McCain, whose compelling personal story derives, in part, from being an heir to a long line of sailors who defended America, and from his own military service during the Vietnam War. McCain also movingly described the ennobling experience of having been a prisoner of war for years during the Vietnam war-an experience that changed his life and imbued him with a sense of love for his nation that overcame his own youthful ego.
Barack Obama has received a huge amount of support from groups such as MoveOn. Org who have made ridiculing our military a campaign theme (recall the General Betray Us ads?). Obama has also promised to eviscerate leading edge defense programs.
Is the Barack Obam campaign so desperate that Obama has to resort to such a transparent claim that is incapable of verification? Did he write about this ardor in his two autobiographies? If so, that would be news to many people.
Barack Obama:
"I had to sign up for Selective Service when I graduated from high school. And I was growing up in Hawaii. And I have friends whose parents were in the military. There are a lot of Army, military bases there.
"And I actually always thought of the military as an ennobling and, you know, honorable option. But keep in mind that I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it's not an option that I ever decided to pursue."
The logic exactly is ... what?
He had the desire to sign up for military service when the Vietnam War was raging but when the war ended so did his desire to serve.
When the war ended, so did his ardor to fight?
That sounds like a war-mongerer to me.
Are his followers aware of this aspect of his biography?
Did he consider becoming a mercenary?
Where does one go with such a transparent pander? With such loopy logic?
Get dumbo in a tank picture asap.
Was this at the same time Hillary tried to join the Marines?
He wouldn’t have passed the weight minimum anyway or the drug specifications.....couldn’t have had a security clearance has anyone asked him to drop to see if he is still using I mean some of the things he’s said like 57 states are so bizarro as to indicate a possible substance abuse problem
And the Khmer Rouge weren’t hiring.
Can it be verified that he signed up for Selective Service? If he did sign up would this necessarily mean that he actually is a natural born citizen?
This worked so well for H.Clinton, I can see why he is now trying it. Surely he can spin himself into victimhood by claiming some white racists recruiter turned him down ala H.Clinton and the Marines?
“Know where can I get me a huntin’ license?”
I call you a coward, Senator Obama.
I server from 1980 till 2002. No major wars. Panama, Granada, the Beruit bombing and a few other scuffles, and, oh yeah, that “cold war” thing.
I served 22 years and change and never came under enemy fire or any kind of combat, for which I thank the Lord for.
Just because there was no war going on is not a reason not to serve.
Just more bullshit from the mind of a liberal
Like most of the records about Obama these records aren’t available. Sorry
Did he think to mention this in either of his books?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Obama is a Marxist, a die hard communist. The only army this scumnbag would sign up for would have been the Red Army.
Gee, Barry. Who’s making stuff up now?
I don’t think so. Besides his drug (cocaine) use would have kept him out of the military.
Well hell, he's practically a veteran!
Exactly, how self serving of Obama to bring up this (repressed) memory now. If it was action he craved, he probably could have enlisted during the Gulf War.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It’s easy to make these types of idiotic claims when your allies in the press won’t take you to task.
Anybody remember the great Steven Wright line: “My girlfriend called me a wimp. I almost said something.” ??
O: I almost joined the military. Woulda, too, if there’d been a war.
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