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I just saw a clip from tonight where disabled vet Max Cleland (picked up a live grenade) said that up until JFK every President had been in the military and in battle and that we should return to such an arrangement. By saying this he totally negates the validity of anthing that Bill Clinton did militarily in the nineties. He also set up a standard that he would conveniently forget if Kerry somehow didn't get the nomination or if inconvenient if applied to any future democat presidential candidate.

How these dems can push for military credentials as a requirement (of course W has credentials just not combat experience) is such a blatant temporary litmus test to denegrate/apply ONLY to republicans seeking the Presidency or before appointing a person to secretary of defense or in an advisory position.
This standard would of course have disqualified not only Clinton but Aspin, Cohen, etc.

Cleland OUGHT to be ashamed. He was a full-out Clinton hack and I am glad he was soundly voted out of office.

Democrats have NO shmae. Like Bob Dole said, (and I'm paraphrasing) "if military heroism was the qualifier, he would have won in a landslide in '96."

I guess that Mr. Cleland never heard of Presidents J. Adams, J.Q. Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Van Buren, Polk, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, A.Johnson, Arthur, Cleveland, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, F.Roosevelt, and Clinton.