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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What and a.h. McCain’s family history as it relates to the military is great. He should be proud of that, and Harkin should realize what a bumbling buffoon he is.
LOL!
Looks like Red Danny cuz it is Red Danny.
Just when we think the dims can’t find a way to stoop lower, they prove us wrong again. What about B Hussein O and his islamic religion????
Harkin is a member of the Traitor Party (cowards all), so I expect nothing less from him.
He and Kerry are really a matched pair...
Harkin is an idiot, and he’s obviously giving a test-drive to a talking point that the democrats think they might have to use this fall. Obama is extremely weak in polling regarding the commander in chief issue when compared with McCain.
To respond to Obama’s weakness the democrats are testing a number of responses to see how they fly.
1. It is a gross violation of rights and ethics to suggest that someone is disqualified from the presidency because of any career of his parents.
2. McCain is not the only president who has had a military background.
3. The military has always been an asset to the nation.
Harkin was my Senator for a number of years. He is a first-class a**hole with no moral bearings whatsoever. Some of his campaign commercials in support of abortion were downright evil and sickening.
If he were to step in a pile of dogsh*t, I would only feel sorry for the sh*t.
It never ceases to amaze me that fellow citizens of my country elect idiots like Harkin.
Iowa. Nuff said.....
You owe an apology to dung.
Unbelievable? Not really Fartkin is a lberal stupid idiot, therefore, his statement fits like a glove.
Unbelievable? Not really Fartkin is a liberal stupid idiot, therefore, his statement fits like a glove.
Ol’ Senator Dung Heap showing the effects of wet-brain.
Harkin hasn't had an original thought for years.
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