Posted on 09/04/2008 7:04:38 AM PDT by Sergeant Tim
Hey, maybe Senator Biden will even grace us with a calm, impromptu press conference to answer a few questions from the unbiased mainstream media. /s
Mark Levin ping! (TGO and I spoke on air about this Tuesday evening.)
“I have not yet begun to fight!, Damn the torpedoes full speed ahead!” - Joe Biden
“The Dumbest Man In The Senate”(in the words of F.Lee Levin)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My uncle, about 5 years older than me, died during Tet. With such a small age difference between us, my uncle was a childhood “guide.” He took us fishing...the young teen with his younger nephews. I’ve traveled to D.C. for the sole purpose of finding his name on The Wall. RIP, Uncle. W.
It does appear to me that Biden played games with the system.
I didn’t support him anyway, but if it’s possible, I support him even less.
There is a boatload of evidence of Biden wrongdoing, bad decisions, and slimy friends (just as there is on Obama)...
Yet notice how the MSM driveby media sits on all of those mounds, and goes full speed ahead on unsubstantiated rumors and trash on Palin.
AS I have posted before - Palin’s position as the VP candidate has shown, without a doubt, the very real bias and corruption of the MSM.
But are the voting Americans paying attention?
I have to differ with Mr. Levin on this.
Until John Warner actually retires and is no longer a senator, HE is the dumbest man in the Senate.
Mr. Biden may only take that mantle once Mr. Warner is gone.
(Biden then went on to say..."The only thing we have to fear is fear itself")
My humble thanks to your uncle...
We have a ‘Wall that heals’ here. Please Freep mail me his name and I will look for him the next time I am visit there.
Medical and college deferments are not draft dodging.
Going to Canada, not reporting, leaving the country, hiding.......are draft dodging.
I have mixed feelings on this one. It is fair to take the media to task for playing up Cheney’s deferment while ignoring Biden’s deferment. But as someone who has no problem with Cheney’s deferment, Rush Limbaugh’s medical deferment, or President Bush’s military record, I would be doing the same thing as the lame stream media were I to question Biden’s medical deferment.
Bump
I certainly have no animus toward Biden's mother, but she failed to teach him a single one of those qualities.
Fake medical deferments ARE draft dodging . During the Vietnam War there were many doctors in Philadelphia that would purposely puncture your eardrum to enable you to get a medical deferment . Some were supposedly on the staff at the University of Pennsylvania .
I agree, Tim. Thanks to all those American heroes that the likes of Kerry and Biden have trod upon.
It’s largely because of my uncle that I joined the Army out of high school in 1970. After that first tour, I went to college, then seminary, and then back in as a chaplain, eventually to retire.
According to the Veterans Administration, 9.2 million served in the military between 1964 and 1975. Nearly 3.5 million served in the Vietnam theater of operations. From a pool of approximately 27 million, the draft raised 2,215,000 men for military service during the Vietnam era. It has also been credited with encouraging many of the 8.7 million volunteers to join rather than risk being drafted. Of the nearly 16 million not engaged in active military service, 96% were exempted (typically because of jobs including other military service), deferred (usually for educational reasons), or disqualified (usually for physical and mental deficiencies but also for criminal records to include draft violations). Draft offenders in the last category numbered nearly 500,000 but less than 10,000 were convicted or imprisoned for draft violations. Finally, as many as 100,000 draft eligible males fled the country.
Perhaps 'offenders' is a bit more PC but back in the day - which was also my day - that is not what they were called. What is interesting to me is the lib media's and politician's willingness to judge Cheney, despite his heart murmur, and say nothing about Biden.
Look again at what Senator Biden says his mother taught him.
Silvie has the distinct honor of the title of “Media Slut”.
Not sure what the counterpart is for you but you definitely qualify. hehehe...
I think each deferrment needs to be looked at on its own merits. They truly are not all the same. I lived through that era, joined in 1970, and I get a gut feel when I read some of the backgrounds on deferrments.
This one sounds hokey. After multiple educational deferrments another deferrment for asthma for an athlete. The year is 1968. I’m telling you that my bullshit meter is pegged all the way into the red.
Oh for God's sake. Dick Cheney, Phil Graham, Rudy Giluiani, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, Newt Gingrich; do we really want to pissing contest over our draft dodgers vs. their draft dodgers?
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