Harkin Attacks McCain for Having Served In the Military Too Much

abcnews.com ^ | May 26th, 2008 | Jake Tapper

[The_Republican]

Our Democrat Freinds wishing every Soldier well on Memorial Day!

[TheZMan]

I’ll take a career military man, regardless of branch, over any civy (myself included), any day. Dismissed.

[Diogenesis]

[InABunkerUnderSF]

And he says this on Memorial Day?

[geo40xyz]

Tom Harkin: is living prove that ALL are not created with equal BRAINS:-()

[The_Republican]

Woe! Look at the heroic admiration in all of their eyes........

[HEY4QDEMS]

He's running for commander in chief, and our Constitution says that should be a civilian.

point one; McCain IS a civilian, Point two; The constitution says no such thing.

[Diogenesis]

You're right.

Title change: "Harkin Attacks McCain for Having Served In the US Military Too Much"

There, fixed, it.

[GRRRRR]

Harkin’s such a...what’s the word? PUTZ?? Yeah, fits just right...he’s a PUTZ!

[denydenydeny]

Jake Tapper surprises me more all the time. I wonder if he’s having an ideological conversion.

[Darren McCarty]

Shut up, REMF......

[SteamShovel]

Harkin and the woman look like they are at a Toga Party.

[Be_Politically_Erect]

“He’s running for commander in chief, and our Constitution says that should be a civilian.”

Harkin and his fellow travlers don’t know a thing about what the Constitution says. To them it’s just so much toilet paper.

[do not press 2 for spanish]

US SEN Tom Harkin (SCUMBAG-IA) = coward, lowlife, dirtbag, garbage, trash, lib-dem filth, junk, crap, traitor, seditionist, saboteur, leftist, commie, socialist, hate-America, sodomy-supporter, homo-enabler, punk, etc.

IMO.

[bray]

Weren’t they harpin about GW not being in the military enough?? Guess you have to be in just right.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[FlingWingFlyer]

"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."

Same crap could be said for buffoons like Harkin spending all of their life as a politician in Washington. NOW THAT'S DANGEROUS! Throw the bums out!

[MarkL]

I can only imagine the opposition that the dems "serving" today would have against General George Washington as President of the United States...

I'm sure Harkin would contend that Washington spent too much time in the military, and I'm sure that Rockefeller would complain that unlike McCain, who dropped bombs from the air, Washington actually killed men in hand to hand combat, making him completely inappropriate as President.

The more the dems talk, the more disgusted I get.

Mark

[Mr. Mojo]

"He's running for commander in chief, and our Constitution says that should be a civilian."

McCain's been a civilian for about 35 years, Tommy.

The Rats attack GOP nominees for not serving enough, for serving too much, and for actually killing the enemy while serving.

Yet draft dodging Democrat nominees are revered.

[Hoodat]

This coming from the man who lied about serving in Vietnam?

[Enchante]

"Harkin, like McCain, was a Navy flier, though unlike McCain Harkin never saw combat."


Yes, and many of us may remember that Harkin is one of the "Stolen Valor" types of fraud-politicians who concocted a fictitious combat career to puff himself up. To serve is noble, to fraudulently give oneself combat experience that never happened is ignoble and contemptible. Period.

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Candidate Harkin Stretches the Truth

Vietnam isn't the only instance.

BY JAMES M. PERRY

"... the Iowa lawmaker has found himself accused of misleading reporters about the troubles of his deaf brother. In addition, the budgetary mathematics he weaves into his basic stump speech have been challenged on network television. And allegations about Mr. Harkin's truthfulness extend back well before the current campaign, back to his claims that he was a combat pilot in Vietnam....

...In Mr. Harkin's case, the questions that have lingered longest concern his Navy record. Mr. Harkin did serve in the Navy during the Vietnam era, but exactly what he did, and for how long, remain a matter of some dispute...."

Other issues covered in the article:

...Harkin claimed he flew combat air patrols over Vietnam. It turns out it was over Cuba...

...Harkin claimed he spent "eight years, eight months and eight days as a Navy pilot." His military record shows he served five years on active duty...

...Harkin claimed he spent a year in Vietnam, but he was really stationed in Japan...
...Harkin referred to himself as a "Vietnam veteran in Congress" but is actually only a "Vietnam-era veteran" and has never received the standard Vietnam Service medal or Vietnam Campaign medal which were given to all who served in the Southeast Asia theater.

...Harkin lied about his deaf brother's employment history...