I'm speechless so a photo will have to do.
Posted on 05/22/2008 8:40:17 AM PDT by tobyhill
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin is catching grief for suggesting John McCain’s family history of military service makes the presumptive Republican presidential nominee unfit to be commander-in-chief.
Harkin, who has a history of embellishing his own military record, told Iowa reporters last week that McCain’s background as the son and grandson of Navy admirals creates a “dangerous” situation because he can only view the world through the prism of the military.
“He has a hard time thinking beyond that,” Harkin said, according to The Des Moines Register. “I think he’s trapped in that. Everything is looked at from his life experiences, from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous.”
The paper also quotes Iowa’s junior senator telling reporters, “It’s one thing to have been drafted and served, but another thing when you come from generations of military people and that’s just how you’re steeped, how you’ve learned, how you’ve grown up.”
Military service is not a foreign concept to U.S. presidents. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt, who spent seven years as assistant secretary of the Navy, Bill Clinton is the only president to have not served in some branch of the military.
McCain, who touts his family history on the campaign trail, was a Vietnam War pilot who spent five and a half years in a prisoner of war camp rather than accept the North Vietnamese offer to release him ahead of his fellow troops because he was the son of an admiral.
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Anybody know what Harkin’s thoughts were on John Kerry. You remember John Kerry - he served in Vietnam (lol).
Careful Tom, don't let anybody see that long streak of yellow running down your spine.
It’s kind of funny, actually, this utter hypocrisy.
Harkin is the guy who lied about his war record.
As opposed to someone like Harkin, who can only view the world through the prism of a fool.
You'll only get this on Fox. Every other news outlet worships the military records of Dems like Harkin, Gore, Kerry, Kennedy and Schumer.
Wait, Schumer wasn't a Green Beret in Vietnam? Who knew?
Tom Harkin is an unmitigated a$$hole.
Maybe that’s just urine.
My thoughts also. Did he oppose Jimmy Carter?
What about people with a family history of Islam and have a middle name of Hussein?
Tom Harkin is a very credible War Hero himself ya know?
/s/
The only soldiers the ‘Rats like are traitors and the ones who have died and can be used for political gain.
Harkin’s seditious background makes him unfit to live. Period.
Wait, Schumer wasn’t a Green Beret in Vietnam? I have never heard this story. Is this true?
Did Harkin vote for Congressman Duncan Hunter, who has an excellent military background as a decorated Vietnam veteran and would make a great Commander-in-Chief, POTUS and leader or the free world??????????????
Didn't seem to hinder Dwight Eisenhower.
The liar Harkins is unfit.
Senator Harkin’s penis envy is apparent...
Senator Harkin LIED about flying combat missions.
Senator Harkin’s lies, low I.Q. and Socialist leaning should have gotten him thrown out of the Republican Party..
Senator Harkin is an example of Kakistocracy....
The Greeks had a word for EVERYTHING:
SYLLABICATION: kak·is·toc·ra·cy
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. kak·is·toc·ra·cies
Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.
ETYMOLOGY: Greek kakistos, worst, superlative of kakos, bad;
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