General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy number one reason to keep Mitt Rmoney from the White House...
How can someone who may potentially be in the position of sending men and women to war...
FORGET to thank them for their service and sacrifice?
I know there is a long list of reasons to keep him out of the WH. Good ones, too. But this got put at the top for me.
How unconscionable is that? As a veteran, I find this patently offensive. Thinking about it makes me livid.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,534 posts)Iris
(15,649 posts)DevonRex
(22,541 posts)Those men and women are nothing to him. But they are nothings that he takes for granted as his right. Other people die FOR him and so what? It's just what he thinks he's somehow entitled to in his charmed life.
Iris
(15,649 posts)Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)Not to mention the inhumanity of his advisers. You'd think ONE of them might have said something?
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)a missionary in France with serving in COMBAT in Vietnam. Or someone who LIES about getting FOUR deferments after protesting against people who did not support the Vietnam War.
Mitt Romney thinks he deserves to live by a different set of rules and standards. Talk about a culture of entitlement.
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/47726501#47726501
Martin Bashir | Aired on June 07, 2012
Romneys selective memory on his draft record
Salon.coms Joan Walsh, the Washington Posts Jonathan Capehart, and Mother Jones David Corn discuss an explosive new Associated Press report on Mitt Romney and the draft: four separate deferments and an almost equal number of contradictory statements on the topic.
liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)cynatnite
(31,011 posts)darkangel218
(13,985 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)entitlement Mormon. Just the same Joe Myth White Horse Prophecy,of the 1840's.
SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)Whatever tiny bit of compassion he has would be gone. This is what happens to people who live life by the spreadsheet. Those soldiers are just lines or bars on a graph.
Ship of Fools
(1,453 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Yeah, Paris. Who knew they sent Mormons there to proselytize Parisians. So much for his military service.
Raine
(30,540 posts)they don't owe anyone a thank you.
lumpy
(13,704 posts)the leader of this country. Did I mention that he comes across as stupid at times ?