I’ve stated numerous times that I think much more of people who have served in the US Armed Services than those who haven’t.
Or, more accurately, I don’t think less of a man for not serving, but I always think more of a man who has.
On the other hand, I give absolutely zero bonus for points for men who lament that they have “thought” about joining…but then for one selfish reason or another never did.
Men like Barack Obama. Who, in two memoirs, never once before admitted to “thinking about” joining the Army. Not until it became — like most things in Obama’s world — politically expedient for him. Like when he’s running against a revered war hero and the mother of an infantry soldier.
And I actually always thought of the military as an ennobling and, you know, honorable option. But keep in mind that I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren’t engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it’s not an option that I ever decided to pursue.
Uh huh. I believe that as much as I believe that Obama wasn’t in the pews when Rev. Jeremiah White was waxing hateful about white America.
Barry says that he thought of it when he graduated from high school in 1979 and was required to register for the selective services. Though his memory must be a little off, since he Selective Service Act had lapsed and wasn’t reinstated until 1980. Barry didn’t actually register until his sophomore year at Occidental in California.
And, as Just One Minute points out, “Obama recently gave a commencement address at Wesleyan with the theme of calling our nations youth to service and never mentioned the military as a way to serve our country.”
Just One Minute concludes, “Nowhere in this call to service does he acknowledge that joining the military is a valid way to serve our country. It simply was not on his radar in May of 2006 and I doubt it was on his radar at his graduation in 1979 or when he actually registered in 1980.”
McCain ahead by 10.
Olbermann and Matthews off the election coverage.
A lot of talk on the radio by other reporters letting it all hang out on Olbermann and Matthews. Say network meltdown.
Left by Anonymous on September 7th, 2008 at 10:10 pm