Posted on 08/25/2008 3:16:55 PM PDT by oneolcop
Does anyone know if Barack H. Obama "The One" registered for the draft?
That’s a good question oneolcop.
I’m pretty sure there was no draft registration when Barry would have been eligible.
Citizens of the world are exempt from the draft.
I don’t know if he did. I didn’t, but then I was going into ROTC immediately (and I made that decision before I was 18), so I don’t know. I can’t say not registering makes one less patriotic per se. Personally I’m against the draft, but I understand why people are offended and annoyed when people don’t register.
I’m about the same age as obamba, and I did have to register for the selective service.
lol
Plus he’s the 2nd coming of Christ. Why would he need to register? Duh.
/s
I’m sure a counterfeit document is soon to follow.
that’s a racist question. /s
Well, y’all must be younger than I thought. I thought he was within a couple of years of me. I’m 50, and there wasn’t any registration when I was 18.
There isn’t a draft now, but still have to register when you turn 18.
The new process for registration began when I turned 18 (1978); He’s @ 1.5 years younger, so would have had to register @ 1979-1980. I read that he registered. Doesn’t mean he did, but I am inclined to believe what I read.
I’m neither offended or annoyed, but the law is the law and it requires that all males register. As far as I know that law has been on the books since the end of the actual draft.
Not if he isn’t a US citizen!
I believe selective service was temporarily discontinued in 1975, then continued again in 1980. Pax Obama would have had to register.
Only one?
;-)
There’s a window........I stole this from wiki....
“On March 25, 1975, Pres. Gerald Ford signed Proclamation 4360, Terminating Registration Procedures Under Military Selective Service Act, eliminating the registration requirement for all 18-25 year old male citizens. Then on July 2, 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed Proclamation 4771, Registration Under the Military Selective Service Act, retroactively re-establishing the Selective Service registration requirement for all 18-26 year old male citizens born on or after January 1, 1960. Only men born between March 29, 1957, and December 31, 1959, were completely exempt from Selective Service registration.”
There was a small window where you did not have to register for the draft:
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