One of the Dem’s favorite cards — but still falling well short or their favorite “Race” card — is the “Chickenhawk” card.
Namely that Republicans like to make and start wars, while sending other peoples’ kids off to fight in them (never mind that it’s an all volunteer military made up of our Nation’s best and bravest).
Well, the Dems just lost the ability to play that card at all in this election.
Not only does Sen. John McCain have the most unassailable military and war record of any Presidential candidate ever who is not named Dwight D. Eisenhower — but his own son, James McCain has spent the last 10 months patrolling Anbar province as a proud member of the US Marine Corps.
And Sarah Palin understand what it means to be the mother of a solider during a war, too.
On September 11, 2007, the Palins’ son Track joined the Army. Eighteen years old at the time, he is the oldest of Palin’s five children. Track now serves in an infantry brigade and will be deployed to Iraq in September.
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UPDATE — I forgot to mention that Sen. Biden’s son Beau is a captain in the Delaware Army National Guard, where he serves in the JAG Corps. He is set to be deployed to Iraq in October 2008.
So 3 of the 4 candidates have kids who volunteered to go and fight for their country. I think this is a great thing.





She’s a kooky creationist too. Expect the hits to keep on coming in on her in rapid-fire succession today. 4 hours in and the bobbleheads still can’t figure out whether it’s pronounced Paylin or Pahlin.
Left by Pat on August 29th, 2008 at 1:51 pm