Posted on 10/08/2011 10:32:15 PM PDT by fightinJAG
O'Donnell: I misread your book and its references to the Navy. I thought you served in the Navy. You're now telling me you didn't. Can you explain how you avoided military service during the Vietnam War and during the draft, and why you should be commander in-chief if you did successfully avoid service during the war that came during what would have been your war years? After avoiding the Vietnam War, why should you be commander-in-chief?
Cain: Lawrence, you know, do you stay up nights coming up with the wording of these questions?
O'Donnell: Just thought of that one now ...How did you do that?
Cain: You say, "How did I avoid the Vietnam War?" I wasn't trying to avoid the Vietnam War! Here's what happened, Lawrence. I was working in a critical area called exterior ballistics. I worked on something called rocket assisted projectiles for the Department of the Navy. It was my local board in Atlanta, Georgia, that told me, "We would rather have you continue to do that analytical work, to help the Navy, rather than us draft you." Secondly, when they had the lottery, I made myself available. The year that they had the lottery for the draft, they did not draft me because they didn't get to my number. So I think that's a poor choice of words on your part to say that I "avoided" the Vietnam War. I made myself available to my country, and they did not draft me. The rest of the time I was serving my country in a critical role called exterior ballistic analysis. So I am offended with your choice of words in terms of what I was doing during the Vietnam War.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Incredibly, O'Donnell followed up by saying, "I am offended on behalf of all the veterans of the Vietnam War who joined, Mr. Cain. The veterans who did not wait to be drafted, like John Kerry, who joined. They didn't sit there and wait to find out what their draft board was going to do. They had the courage to join, and to go, and to fight that war. What prevented you from joining? And what gives you the feeling, after having made that choice, you should be the commander in chief?"
Did Larry have a problem with Obama not serving?
I am getting the feeling the liberals are petrified of Cain in a presidential debate with Obama.
MSNBC is just doing what the Paulist and the Perrywinkles do to Herman everyday of the week right here on FR.
And what about Bill Clinton?
Hey Pillsbury Dough-boy O'Dork, AFAIK, you never enlisted either?? Put up or shut up you fat POS! Sounds like you were 4F material; a reject IOW!!!
Even in a draft era, you were deemed useless!!
I find no military service in O’Donnells bio.
Hell’s Bells, Larry wouldn’t care even if it were proven Obama is not an American.
I think this part of Larry’s interview deserves much more of a smackdown than even his despicable and weird blathering on about civil rights marches and, essentially, “real” black men as defined by Liberals.
This is despicable.
O’Donnell is a worthless sack of puke. Like most leftscum...
Why didn't they all sign up on 9/12/2001? Lots of people did. It was very clear we were going to war and many people decided to join the military right then and there. Did Obama? Did Larry?
O’Donnell contradicts himself. When it comes to the civil rights movement, he wants all college students to be out there protesting, but when it comes to not serving in a war that liberals didn’t like, those who didn’t serve are to be condemned.
So designing missile systems directly for the Navy isn’t service?
Thanks for the cross-link!
O’Donnell disrespects a man who served his country well and honorably in wartime.
In fact, think about it: Herman Cain, a young man, just out of college, the world is just opening its doors to him, and he goes to work for the Navy, providing technical skills in a critical area.
Lawrence O’Donnell, in my opinion, has done nothing less that publicly boo an American for his wartime service.
Or Newt in a debate with Biden.
OMG
It would become the most infamous debate EVER.
Or Newt in a debate with Biden.
OMG
It would become the most infamous debate EVER.
AMEN.
What a hypocrite as he probably would not have asked this question to the draft dodger who became President.
Libs are NOT okay with people serving in the military, especially in wartime. Just like they are NOT okay with people having a personal faith in, um, GOD.
But it didn’t bother them when there’d be pictures of Bill Cinton coming down the steps of a Baptist church with a big Bible in his hand. They knew it wasn’t real.
Same with John Kerry, et al. They knew it wasn’t real, that Kerry hadn’t actually “bought into” the military mindset or come close to adopting a conservative understanding of national defense.
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