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To: Unrepentant VN Vet
Questioning a medical exemption, especially one as conveniently timed as Biden’s, is a far cry from casually throwing a “Draft Dodger” label around. In fact, by the standards used by the dims (as well as you), I’m a DD, since I both had student deferments and then enlisted to avoid being drafted when those deferments went away.

Then what qualifies one as a 'draft dodger' in your eyes? Biden's asthma apparently does. What about Buchanan's knee or Limbaugh's cyst? Were those conveniently timed? How much timing went into all the deferements that Giuliani and Rove and Thompson and Lott and Graham and all the others arrainged.

You want to limit draft dodgers to Democrats then have at it. Most will not use your oh-so-convenient definition, and any attempts at hanging that label on Biden 40 years later is going to also hang it on the GOP leadership as well. And if that prevents Biden from even mentioning the military then a large sampling of GOP leadership and pundits had better keep their mouth's zipped on the services as well.

56 posted on 09/04/2008 10:19:57 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

Your opinion of whatever I “apparently” use as criteria does not qualify as fact.

Read my entire post again, then parse words, please.


57 posted on 09/04/2008 10:45:31 AM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (Dealing with a situation with a speech or voting "Present" just doesn't hack it.)
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