2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRachel on the Mitt Romney Vietnam scandle
When the national media is ignoring it. Motherfucker said he didn't do anything to be removed from the draft list when it's now learned he got four deferments
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)They love war....they just won't serve themselves or send their kids to serve...(with a few exceptions) Mitt has 5 sons and not one has ever served in the military...
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,414 posts)by trying to get their dad elected!
I think that's what they said back in 2008?
ELI BOY 1950
(173 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Two daft drodgers who want to see other people go to war.
Narraback
(648 posts)beac
(9,992 posts)A bully and a coward grew up to be a bully and a coward... what a surprise.
young_at_heart
(3,769 posts)The national media is pretty pathetic!
smartalek
(21 posts)The corporate media (5 or 6 multinationals who own & control over 80% of the "news" Americans rely on) are just a less blatant version of Fox.
What they do isn't even about making money with ratings -- it's about controlling the info flow for the long-term profitability of their corporate ownership.
That explains Obama's fealty to Wall Street -- a real threat to their oligarchic control of our government (and the media) would never have been allowed anywhere near the Oval Office.
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)leaning the native language and eating fomage while holding out in the castle HQ.
spin
(17,493 posts)One example:
Deferments Helped Trump Dodge Vietnam
APRIL 28--Despite Donald Trumps claim this week that he avoided serving in the Vietnam War solely due to a high draft number, Selective Service records show that the purported presidential aspirant actually received a series of student deferments while in college and then topped those off with a medical deferment after graduation that helped spare him from fighting for his country, The Smoking Gun has learned.
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However, Selective Service records reveal that Trump, the fortunate son of a multimillionaire real estate baron, took repeated steps to avoid serving in Vietnam.
By the time his number (356) was drawn during the December 1, 1969 draft lottery, Trump had already received four student deferments and a medical deferment, according to military records on file with the National Archives and Records Administration. An extract of Trumps Selective Classification record, seen here, was provided in response to a TSG records request.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/deferments-helped-trump-dodge-vietnam
I find it interesting that The Donald had a good background that would have helped prepare him for military service.
Donald Trump
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Trump attended the Kew-Forest School, Forest Hills, New York, as did some of his siblings. At age 13 after having some difficulties there, his parents sent him to the New York Military Academy (NYMA), hoping to direct his energy and assertiveness in a positive manner.[21] At NYMA, in upstate New York, Trump earned academic honors, and played varsity football in 1962, varsity soccer in 1963, and varsity baseball from 1962 to 1964 (baseball captain 1964). The baseball coach, Ted Dobias, a local celebrity for his work with area youth, awarded him the Coach's Award in 1964. Promoted to Cadet Captain-S4 (Cadet Battalion Logistics Officer) in his senior year, Trump and Cadet First Sergeant Jeff Donaldson (NYMA class of 1965; West Point 1969) formed a composite company of cadets, taught them advanced close-order drill, and marched them down Fifth Avenue on Memorial Day, 1964.emphasis added
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
Of course, to be fair, I also avoid the draft during those years.
I enlisted in the Air Force.
beac
(9,992 posts)That man is permanently estranged from truth and honesty.
smartalek
(21 posts)Hope you came home in good shape, physically and in every other respect.
Far too many didn't -- and far too many never came home at all.
We still owe an unpayable debt to all of you, and to all who.have served.
spin
(17,493 posts)I was fortunate not to have to serve in actual combat and I have a lot of admiration and respect for those who did.