Funny, I thought that was why they went into politics.
Chuckie Rangelraghead can kiss my ass. That is not the reason I joined the Army nor the reason I stayed 20 years in the Army. But, then again, as Jon Carry said, I was just dumb and too stupid anyway.
Rangel is trying to reflect his own feelings of inadequacy on those that sign up. What an idiot.
Is it coincidence that some of the biggest idiots in Congress have the name Charles or Chuck?
Hey Chuckie, I joined to kill Commies.
Rangell can kiss my ass.
"If we were to follow Rangel's advice of a draft, our military would be full of people who don't want to be there."-----\
------That of course is EXACTLY what Rangel wants, the state of affairs he fondly wants to see transpire. BUT, he knows that is NOT the state of affairs we have now, so he
pretends it is, and hopes that his intended audience has so little sense of perspective and history that they'll accept his view of things as "the way it is"/The fatal flaw in Rangel's "thinking" is that he wants to create a draft so that he'll have a military full of resentful people who don't want to be there, FIRST, then automatically ANY war, or military adventure would be doomed before it started. He is putting the proverbial cart before the horse: his plan would always involve looking for an unpopular war to commit his disgruntled troops to. It's the definition of perversity, if not unreality. Yet indicative of the classic Left POV.
There was a VERY illuminating article in the Weekly Standard maybe 6-8 weeks ago to the effect that it is ONLY at places like VMI and West Point that one can get anything approaching a classical education regarding the Humanities. There were some actual quotes from classroom discussions of the classic American novel, which were completely amazing as to the level of discourse, and so completely immune from the pretentious fashions which have been virtually defining the English Department faculties of even( or maybe especially) highpriced Ivy League schools for decades now.
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Charlie's never gotten over the resentment and America-hatred he felt at being drafted for Korea, that he has pathologically projected ever since and with which he morbidly rationalizes and justifies his lifetime of slavering service to America's and Human Civilization's every socialist enemy.
This part, and this part only, I can agree with. I had several other, more important, reasons that had nothing to do with those things (though they were nice to contemplate as well) when I enlisted in 1963. Most of the guys I served with...Navy wasn't drafting; we were all volunteers...could say the same.
I don't expect Wrabble Wrangle to have any idea what those reasons could be, let alone understand them.
Everything else Wrabble Wrangler says, though is despicable.
Oh, and neither jobs nor college were a problem for me at all.
I joined the Army. I just got out of 2 months of basic training and 7 months of AIT (Advanced Individual Training).
Before I joined the Army, I had a 7 year career as a Quality Assurance engineer in the Silicon Valley.
I joined to defend my country. It's a significant pay-cut and sacrifice, especially considering that I have missed my wife and daughter for the last 7 months and will continue to miss them for the next year while I am away in South Korea.
These bugs seem to say and do anything they can with the goal of demoralizing the Troops, embolden the enemy and bringing our Country to it's knees.
Bastard traitors all......every single one of them.
Charlie is lot a lot of vets. The only army he knows is the one he served in a millions years ago. I admit it: the army in the 1950s was filled full of dumb asses like Charlie. In Japan the troops available to MacArthur were good only for the parade ground.
As I watched him on the show, I thought he must have been talking about his own motives, because no one I know in the services joins today for job security, knowing they are putting their life on the line. When they do, they show the greatest love, laying down their life for their friend. They are honorable men, worthy of respect. This man, his name is not worth mentioning. Let all our servicemen and women know we stand behind them with respect and pride. Thank you all.
Look, Rangel is a clown and his pitch is really a hidden anti-war screed. But you have to be honest when taking him on in that some of his points are on the mark.
For example, go down to your local country club - the one the doctors and lawyers and town social leaders belong to, and ask the members how many of their kids are in the military or how many have ever encouraged their kids to join the military. You might find a few, but most of them think their kids are too good to be in the military.
A Pat Tillman that everybody criticizing Rangel uses as a counter actually reinforces Rangel's point. Tillman is unique! What other pro atheletes have followed him into this "battle for survival" or "world war III"? Name two children of big comapny CEOs, the ones getting $100 miliion a year, who are in the military. Name one of the virile movie stars women fawn over. How many Ivy League alumni are in uniform? Go through Congress and after you cite the kids of Duncan Hunter and Tim Johnson and a few others, who else has sons in the line of fire? Or presidential candidates Gore and Bush and Kerry and Lieberman and Cheney and Edwards and Clinton.
Nope - their kids are too good for the military.
It is a false premise to say that just because our current military is staffed by some of the brightest troops in our history, everything is well. John Kerry comments aside, the middle and lower class have always had bright people.
Hidden in Rangel's anti-war agenda is the unsavory little fact that the elites in our society, who also have some bright people, are not pulling their share of the load. As Frank Schaeffer says in the title of his new book, the elites are AWOL in our fight for survival.
Kick Rangel all you want, but you better start addressing the nasty fact that those who are running the country in government, academia, business, the ones benefitting most from its blessings, are noticeably absent in rising to defend it. Until that changes, Rangel has an uncomfortable point to make.
Smart man. This worked so well for Kerry.
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Rangel says Mother Teresa really wanted to be a housewifeUS Representative Charles Rangel (Dumb-NY) astounded listeners when he revealed his latest personally funded study, which showed that, contrary to previous findings, Mother Teresa preferred staying home and baking cookies.
As a young woman, however, she received no marriage proposals, so she was forced by the Yugoslavian government to travel to a distant country to help other people.
Rangel said that no one should challenge his findings because he is a Catholic
Rangel's district is the armpit of America. You wouldn't want to live there. Just like Nancy Pelosi fairly represents "San Francisco values", Rangel fairly represents his district's values.