Posted on 06/14/2012 9:23:11 AM PDT by ColdOne
At the end of May, Gallup released a poll that found Mitt Romney leading President Barack Obama by 24 points, 58% to 34% among veterans, who make up 13% of the population. Romney, who did not serve in the military, was doing better among veterans against Obama than veteran John McCain did. McCain beat Obama by 10 points among veterans in 2008.
A week later, on June 5, the Associated Press conveniently and coincidentally published a story that hammered Romney -- and three generations of his family -- for not having served in the military while giving Obama a pass for not having served.
The AP noted that although Romney was an early supporter of the Vietnam War, he avoided military service at the height of the fighting by seeking and receiving four draft deferments, which included a a 31-month stretch as a minister of religion in France, a classification for Mormon missionaries that the church at the time feared was being overused.
The story also emphasized that neither Romneys father nor his sons have served in the military and referenced his fathers comments about having been brainwashed in Vietnam. Those comments essentially ended his fathers chances of becoming preside
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As an immigrant who wanted to serve the country of her ancestors, and who called the 800 number to answer the draft when I heard my birthday announced on the radio just one month after arriving in the US in 1971, I say you go ahead and be as phony and so called insulted as you know how to be...
Knock your silly self out..
After the man told me I wasnt included because I was a woman, I enlisted...
and wore my uniform the day I became an American citizen..
Tennessee Nana
US Veteran
I was in Navy bootcamp when the draft ended. I spent 4 years on Enterprise in the Tonkin Gulf Canoe Club and don't care one whit that Mitt has not served. He isn't a Marxist who hates everything good about America and that has to be adequate for the moment.
What ever attributes or lack of that Romney has, his military service is not part of the equation.
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Kid it wouldnt matter in the least if he just stayed home and counted his money...
But he wants to be CinC of the United States Armed Forces...
and that makes it a very big deal with me...
Tennessee Nana
US Veteran
Pick Davis Petraeus as the VP candidate and Romney’s weaknesses in foreign policy, anti-terrorism and military affairs will be balanced.
I believe 1944, FDR v. Dewey was last time 2 non-veterans ran for President.
Wouldn't matter if they hammered Obama, too.
All his records are privileged. Locked up. Unavailable.
Or maybe the forgers aren't quite finished creating his sterling military record; Congressional Medal of Honor, Silver Star, 27 Purple Hearts, the whole nine yards. The manufactured PDF will probably be paraded out by Nancy Pelosi just before the November elections...
Commander-in-Chief, of course!
Remember, he was quite candid when saying he would need a "private army" after he became president. Like all African despots.
"Our time has come!"
"My White House!"
Etc.
How many generations back did you chase Obama's military service?
I know African records are sketchy but being a true patriot, I'm sure you must have made some effort.
I would start with the Mau Mau...
"The Mau Mau were a militant African nationalist movement active in Kenya during the 1950s whose main aim was to remove [white] British rule and European settlers from the country."*
* Their main weapons were machetes, axes and knives.They killed thousands.
A coward's political heaven and useful opportunity!
Or were drug users also ineligible at the time?
How many generations back did you chase Obama’s military service?
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Kid I only had to go 2
Obamas grandfather fought for the US in WWII
His mother was of the generation of women who didnt fight in combat...
Meanwhile STILL for SIX generations the Romneys have refused to serve our country...
Way back to that first Romney who came to the US to serve Joey Smith the theocratic dictator who declared war on the US government...
Hardly a “patriotic” family...
And their hit piece on Obama not being in the military ran next to it?
As an immigrant who wanted to serve the country of her ancestors, and who called the 800 number to answer the draft when I heard my birthday announced on the radio just one month after arriving in the US in 1971, I say you go ahead and be as phony and so called insulted as you know how to be...
My family arrived in the American Colonies and have served in the military from The War of Independence to the sands of Afghanistan. Keep your one generation of military service faux outrage to yourself, since you obviously cannot understand the ramifications of service to this country.
As a first generation American, what business is it of yours the military service of past generations of Americans? My ancestors served for all Americans present and future, not just for fellow veterans or a particular social strata. Phony? I'd say what is phony is your arriving on our shores and you deciding that because of Romney's linage, he is not fit to be President of the United States.
Claiming that Romney isn't fit to serve because of six generations of his family never served? Not in my America. You may be a naturalized citizen, but you have no idea of what being an American is.
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