Posted on 09/05/2002 9:49:58 AM PDT by Bruzilla
I'm an Independent who leans to the right, who was recently booted off Democratic Underground.com for making some critical comments about Bill Clinton. When I complaigned about being banned, a very Liberal member of the DU community sent me the following: "Try signing up at http://freerepublic.com and posting that George W. Bush went AWOL from the guard during a war and see how long your post and account lasts at the "free" republican." So I thought I would take him up on his challenge.
What little I know of GWB's absences from his National Guard duty tells me that he did what a lot of guardsmen and reserve folks that I know have done. They skip drills on a regular basis. As I recall, Senator Chuck Robb (D-Va) missed almost all of his drills in the USMCR for two years prior to being promoted to the rank of Lt. Colonel.
As a long time member of the United States Navy, I know many guys in the reserves who missed drills for a wide range of valid and invalid reasons. I've never heard what Mr. Bush's reasons were for missing his drills, does anyone know? Does anyone care? To the best of my knowledge, if you don't drill, you don't get paid, so no money is being lost. This, to me anyway, is the main reason that people who miss drills aren't disciplined.
I for one am not bothered by the fact that Mr. Bush missed drills.
There you go Fred. I'll wait to see if FR bans me.
To: hellinahandcart
cuckoo for cocopuffs signed up 2002-09-04. This account has been banned.
Cuckoo, we hardly knew ye.
31 posted on 9/4/02 8:15 AM Pacific by Constitution Day [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
Hope you last longer than cocopuffs...
We here at FR consider it an honor to get banned from DU...
The important point is that he returned to a unit in Texas and made up the time. He made good on his obligation, and I respect him for doing that.
WFTR
Bill
I would venture to say that the comments you made of Bill Clinton on DU were relatively civil based on the way you present yourself here. Given that, I first want to welcome you to FR. Next, I would like to point out the nature of the typical liberal, otherwise known as shrillus emotionda. They normally do not want engaging debate. They want parental affirmation. They want to sing with all there brothers and sisters while holding hands, "We are the world, we are the children, lala-la lalala-la mmmm mmm...." They want others to acknowledge that they are victims, too, and that they therefore now belong to elite whiner's club and deserve there own whiner's club card. They declare there love and openness to every likeminded soul...only. So, there you have it.(not really, I could go on)
Liberals are troublesome, but it is the leftists that I cannot stand.
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