Posted on 10/12/2010 7:54:14 AM PDT by SmithL
Even though America is fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, members of President Obama's Cabinet are three times more likely to have attended law school than boot camp.
Only two - Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki - among the 16 Cabinet and six Cabinet-rank officials are military veterans. With last week's departure of National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones, a former Marine, the ranks of vets in Obama's national security inner circle just got thinner. Replacement Tom Donilon is another lawyer (and former lobbyist) with no military training.
The Democratic Party has come a long way since 2004 when party biggies were hitting President George W. Bush for serving only in the Air National Guard during Vietnam. Remember? Sen. John Kerry saluted the Democratic National Convention in Boston as he announced he was "reporting for duty." Democrats chastised Vice President Dick Cheney - who enjoyed five draft deferments during that war - as a "chicken hawk."
Now it's 2010. America is at war - two wars. The commander in chief has never served in the military. Vice President Joe Biden received five student draft deferments during Vietnam. And you don't hear the term "chicken hawk" any more.
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Light would be an understatement. Hell, how many of them were in the Boy Scouts?
“Hell, how many of them were in the Boy Scouts?”
You mean the organization, right?
Obama team light on service, light on private sector business credentials, light on objective Constitutional merit, light on brains...The list really is much longer than this author makes out.
Obamalamadingdong would be perfectly content to decommission the entire U.S. military. You know, because of all those icky guns and stuff make Muslims feel bad about themselves. Come sit on The First Oprah’s couch and talk about your childhood, living in a bombed-out building in any Muslim country.
The Obama Team is ‘light’ in a lot of things and so many areas.
So light it is surprising that they are not floating in mid-air like a balloon.
how many of them were in the Boy Scouts?I assume you mean other than in an Alec Baldwin kind of way.
The list, ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
The Obama team is also very light in the loafers.
Nor has any had any experience in creating jobs. Things are great in the Ivory Towers.
They are light in the loafers also.
Words fail.
Military service would be so ‘beneath’ them.
Insanity.
FMCDH(BITS)
Lawyers
Don’t
Lead.
in fact,
Lawyers
Can’t
Lead.
IT is not in either their training or experience set.
All they are trained to do is argue, and attempt to defend OTHER people’s positions.
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