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To: 4woodenboats
It's not a "hit and run" conniption to say that pictures of soldiers or Marines - posted presumably without their authorization - for political events is out-of-bounds. Uniformed personnel are forbidden from campaigning for a candidate, party, or cause in uniform. What has happened here was essentially the same thing. The poster took a picture of deploying Marines in uniform and used that to campaign for his candidate.

This pathetic excuse for a thread is no different than the left's gruesome attempts to use pictures of coffins for political points.

The military is not a toy for the Republican party to use to get out the vote.

39 posted on 10/30/2008 4:17:45 PM PDT by jude24
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To: jude24; Lancey Howard

Woah, Woah, Woah (My Biden impression :-) ) I didn’t read the whole thread before I posted. Okay, I’m not going to tell you to “get lost, punk” like Lancey. :-) But I respectfully disagree-—— a nice way of saying I think you’re off base on this one, jude.

Posting pictures of military sitting around in airports, alive, breathing, going home to see their loved ones, returning back to their duties overseas, whathaveyou.....is WAY different than pictures of our troops coming home in coffins. People can look at the picture that Lancey posted and interpret them any way they choose. Pictures of our troops’ coffins on planes is WAY more personal. They are dead. They will never be able to speak for themselves again. Their families haven’t even recieved them home for their burials.

You are correct that uniformed personnel are forbidden from campaigning for a candidate. However, someone else posting their picture is not the same thing. I took Lancey’s post as “sticking up” for them, not using them to elect his candidate. I have had the same concerns. Whether a picture was posted or not was irrelevant to me. We share the same concern.

At this point in the game, this is a big deal to me. Cancel the picture.....do you have an arguement with his hypothesis? I do not.


41 posted on 10/30/2008 6:23:38 PM PDT by Girlene
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