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Barack Obama 'wanted to join US military'
UK Telegraph ^ | Today | Brainhose

Posted on 09/08/2008 7:56:30 AM PDT by Brainhose

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To: Mr. K

Yes. All my friends who were a year younger had to register. In fact I think I missed the deadline by like two weeks — I think if you were born in July of that year you had to register and I was born in June. He’s several years younger than me.


41 posted on 09/08/2008 8:19:45 AM PDT by ichabod1 (It's all fun and games until Russia starts invading Eastern Europe (pete))
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To: Brainhose
YAAAAAH!! and I "wanted to date Brooke Shields" when I was younger. Wanting and doing are two completely different animals there Hussein.

Semper Fidelis
42 posted on 09/08/2008 8:19:52 AM PDT by marine86297 (I'll never forgive Clinton for Somalia, my blood is on his hands)
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To: tatsinfla
correct me if i am wrong but in 1979 even though there was no draft didn’t you still have to sign up with the selective service?

See My post #37

43 posted on 09/08/2008 8:20:21 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Whale oil: the renewable biofuel for the 21st century.)
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To: Brainhose
Having been in the Navy during the decade following Vietnam, I find his comment very offensive.

It was during this time we faced down and defeated Qaddafi, that mad man and father of modern day terrorism, who decided to extend the coastal claims of Libya to the waters where American naval maneuvers are conducted.

I have recounted the event in my FR profile, here is an excerpt:

“Within months after taking office, Ronald Reagan took a stand. He made it clear that American maneuvers in the Gulf of Sidra would proceed as they always had before Carter. Anticipating trouble, Reagan was asked by the Joint Chiefs what American pilots do if attacked? Would Reagan's orders allow for “hot pursuit”? Reagan's answer – “All the way into the hanger.” You know the rest of the story.”

Now shall we talk about the Cold War? Peace Time military My A##. It was because of the post Vietnam Military rebuilt and led By Ronald Reagan that we has such a long period of no major confrontations, and the Cold War ended.

44 posted on 09/08/2008 8:20:40 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: Brainhose
LOL

I didn’t join the military, but “I THOUGHT ABOUT IT.” So I'm kinda like a Vet, a war hero, myself.........

Obama is an expert leader because he was a community organizer.

Obama also served his country and has first hand knowledge of the military because he “thought about joining.”

45 posted on 09/08/2008 8:20:46 AM PDT by Red6 (Come and take it.)
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To: onedoug; roaddog727; CE2949BB
This lie has no end of holes in it.
Since he graduated H.S. 1 year before me, and by that time the Vietnam war had been over for about 7 or 8 years it seems a pretty sad statement on his knowledge of world events that he didn't know that it had ended.

Obama: "Can I get me a gook hunting license here?"
DS:"Um... The vietnam War has been over for several years sir."
Obama: "Oh, ummm.. can I get me a selective service registration here?"
DS:"No sir. there is no requirement for the selective service."
Obama to self: "Darn, I'll have to fudge it when I run for president.
46 posted on 09/08/2008 8:22:27 AM PDT by Brainhose (Check Your Tire Pressure)
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To: Brainhose

And I wanted to join the University of Florida football team when I was in college.


47 posted on 09/08/2008 8:23:00 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Brainhose

BULL!

He HATES the military. He didn’t even bother to visit them in his celibrity tour in Europe or in Iraq. He’s full of crap.

You’re NO “Christian” either, Obomination.

You slipped :

“my MUSLIM faith”....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw&feature=related


48 posted on 09/08/2008 8:23:18 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: marine86297

“YAAAAAH!! and I “wanted to date Brooke Shields” when I was younger.”

You and me both pal, you and me both. Now about that moon rocket I wanted to build in my Dad’s back yard.


49 posted on 09/08/2008 8:23:25 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: Brainhose
I almost forgot I made this a while ago

50 posted on 09/08/2008 8:27:14 AM PDT by Brainhose (Check Your Tire Pressure)
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To: nmh
I used to shovel horse sh*t at my aunt's farm in Maine during the summer. In all those years I never shoveled as much crap as he's been dishing out.
And the real thing smelled better.
51 posted on 09/08/2008 8:30:41 AM PDT by Brainhose (Check Your Tire Pressure)
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To: marlon

Naw, you had to start registering again if you graduated HS after 1977. They have never put the draft into effect, but the requirement to register was there.


52 posted on 09/08/2008 8:34:00 AM PDT by ichabod1 (It's all fun and games until Russia starts invading Eastern Europe (pete))
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To: Brainhose

You didn’t sign up, so shut up Bacrock.


53 posted on 09/08/2008 8:38:53 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Palin in 08)
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To: Brainhose
Well, I *wanted* to join the NY Yankees and play 3rd base.

Like my dad says..."It's good to want things".

54 posted on 09/08/2008 8:40:07 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Jeff Head

At least Jerry Wright actually DID serve.


55 posted on 09/08/2008 8:45:13 AM PDT by ichabod1 (It's all fun and games until Russia starts invading Eastern Europe (pete))
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To: ichabod1

Not sure. I looked it up and it wasn’t reinstated until sometime in 1980 I beleive. Either way I’m quite sure the communist radical had no intention of joining the military. At least not the US military in any case!


56 posted on 09/08/2008 8:46:47 AM PDT by marlon
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To: tatsinfla

That’s right... Carter did away with the registration requirement but Reagan reversed that when he got in there. It wasn’t based on your graduation year, it was based on your age.


57 posted on 09/08/2008 8:50:40 AM PDT by ichabod1 (It's all fun and games until Russia starts invading Eastern Europe (pete))
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To: KarlInOhio

Thx for the info, i knew it was something like that but could not remember the timetable. now the question is: did he register? how old is he anyways? shows how much i care about him huh...lol...


58 posted on 09/08/2008 8:50:48 AM PDT by tatsinfla
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To: ichabod1

see post 37, did carter sign it into law then do away with it later? you guys are confusing me now.....lol...


59 posted on 09/08/2008 8:53:21 AM PDT by tatsinfla
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To: Brainhose

The aspiration was not mentioned in either of his two volumes of memoirs.

How convenient that he releases this thought now.


60 posted on 09/08/2008 8:53:49 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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