[John Thornton]

Only in an election year ruled by fiction could a sissy who used Daddy's connections to escape Vietnam

Yeah, right, Frank. W. was such a sissy that he had his father pull strings so that he could become a FIGHTER PILOT. Unlike Frank's macho hero, Al Gore, who had his father pull strings so he could become a JOURNALIST.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Rhetoric went unchallenged ("old news" couldn't shape the news)

[highlander_UW]

Yeah, right, Frank. W. was such a sissy that he had his father pull strings so that he could become a FIGHTER PILOT. Unlike Frank's macho hero, Al Gore, who had his father pull strings so he could become a JOURNALIST.

I wouldn't argue along the lines of Gore becoming a journalist. It all plays into the dems underlying assumption that the only people that have valid input are those who went to Vietnam.

What they should do is create an ad campaign collecting all of the quotes by democrats making such assertions and then challenge voters...did you fight in Vietnam? If not the dems say you shouldn't have a say in this nation.

[middie]

Is Al Gore running again? Or does the hyperbole directed at him have some hidden, significant meaning?

Flying an airplane, irrespective of whether it's a Beech Bonanza or an F-102, is a matter only of time and training. Flying, in a strict sense, is the ability to launch, navigate, coomunicate and bring the aircraft back to earth in the same condition as when it left. Being a fighter pilot goes far beyond being able merely to fly the airplane.