When Clinton ran for president, the fact that he had avoided the draft was not a major issue.
For Bush, who took flight training in the Texas National Guard at a time when some of the guard was deployed in Viet Nam, it was “Spun” by those who don’t know these things as “draft dodging” even though the Air Guard is frequently called up for emergencies and wars.
So for the next cycle of elections, we have (ta dah!) the sixties generation of draft dogers and the post boomer Obama, who was brought up in Asia by a white mother but is claiming solidarity with the Afro American experience.
Well, he has a nice smile, so will probably be president, perhaps in 2012. But one doubts he has the knowledge to do so earlier, especially since his parroting of the far left seems to be due to his lack of experience (in contrast to Hillary, who knows better, but is bowing to the left to win over Obama, not noticing she just lost the Reagan Democrat vote by voting against troop funding).
TheCorner, (via instapundit) have a post on Obama’s criticism of John McCain, and Mc Cain’s rebuttal that show the problem.
Obama criticized McCain’s vote for funding, saying:
“And if there ever was a reflection of that it’s the fact that Senator McCain required a flack jacket, ten armored Humvees, two Apache attack helicopters, and 100 soldiers with rifles by his side to stroll through a market in Baghdad just a few weeks ago.
McCain’s answer is priceless:
“While Senator Obama’s two years in the U.S. Senate certainly entitle him to vote against funding our troops, my service and experience combined with conversations with military leaders on the ground in Iraq lead me to believe that we must give this new strategy a chance to succeed because the consequences of failure would be catastrophic to our nation’s security.
“By the way, Senator Obama, it’s a ‘flak’ jacket, not a ‘flack’ jacket.”
Yup.
Guess a guy whose plane was downed by flak knows a little more about war than a politician whose smile and race are his only qualifications.
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Nancy Reyes is a retired physician living in the rural Philippines.
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3 users commented in " Will a grownup be our next president? "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI think Obama’s comments make perfect sense whereas McCain’s rebuttal certainly does not! What seems to be ‘catastrophic to our nation’s security’ is any increase of our presence in a place we should not have done all that destruction in the first place. His answer is priceless??? because it is so utterly senseless???
as you say: yup! Mccain went through hell back then, but he does not know what he is talking about because of that.
superb. a trenchant analysis. High quality English is your primary recommendation - well done. besides that, the fact that you dismiss the two frontrunning democratic candidates based on their “parroting to the left” is, again, right on the mark. America is, as the polls clearly show, solidly on Bush’s side.
obviously, the military should be in charge of all foreign policy. the fact that most high-level generals (especially the ones whose careers don’t depend on toeing the party line) have come out against Bush’s policy is to be interpreted as cowardice on the Iraq question. cowards.
its difficult to know where first to critique your stance. experience tells us that people such as you are not worth critiquing. you exist as a mouth-piece for a view that posits ignorance as its basic value. just know that you are obvious, and that, to anyone who has studied history from a non-reactionary viewpoint, you are a tool of the ruling class. cheers.
Typical right wing spin. Living in the US for his entire childhood except for ages 6-10 is not “growing up in Asia”.
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