Prominent Right Wing Coward Smears Obama for Not Considering Military Service

Prominent Right Wing Coward Smears Obama for Not Considering Military Service
by Tony Hendra | June 2, 2008



Super-star NYT Op-Ed columnist Billy Kristol shot one off today that outslimed even his own epic levels of sliminess.

The doughty Vietnam non-vet took Senator Obama to task for giving a commencement address at Wesleyan this weekend in which he didn't remind his "elite" audience that military service was one kind of public service they might consider.

Just as back in 1970 young Billy, then a draftable little chickadee of 18 summers, fresh from elite Collegiate School in Manhattan, considered military service in the only war he could have qualified for. And said to his heroic inner man...hellllll nooooo. I'm serving my country at...Harvard.

Just like er, well, er, Obama.

Except there wasn't a war on when Obama was 18.

But pointing out a trivial omission in a list of public service choices wasn't Billy's true intent. He was actually parroting in that inimitably intellectual and slimy way, the current troglo-right theme that Obama can't be trusted with the world's largest military. Why? Because Obama didn't fight in one of the wars he could have qualified for. Like say, our glorious 3-day victory over Grenada in 1983, when he was 22. Code-named as you may proudly recall Operation Urgent Fury.

more...

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/15002

When did you serve?

And considering he was born in 1952, that would have made him old enough to be drafted into Vietnam.

http://www.awolbush.com/whoserved.html

He had that college deferment thing going at Harvard, where he roomed with Alan Keyes:

http://www.mediatransparency.org/personprofile.php?personID=5

despite 6 deferments.

Hard to embarrass the BY Times anymore- yet Kristol manages to do so (along with David Brooks) several times per month.

So we will be seeing ads all over tv about Mc Cain's brave military service for months....
and possibly calling Obama a coward?

Just sayin.

William Kristol is the worst-- I loathe that son of a bitch.

and smash the fucking skulls of those PNAC'ers.

....going AWOL, like Mr. RightWingNut's Hero bu$hit did.

Look at what the right wing has been throwing at Obama. Oh, he's only been to Iraq once. He didn't serve in the military. He's elite.

This tells me they have nothing more to go off. When they have a guy that skipped out on his vietnam service telling us how bad it is that Obama never served it shows that they have hit the bottom of the barrel when it comes to attacks. The american people aren't the sharpest tools in the shed but I think they are smart enough to see through this bullshit.

Like when they chose the rightwingnut's choice of draft-dodging chickenhawk over a war hero who actually went.

They may be seriously grasping at straws but they have learned that it's impossible to underestimate the intelligence of the average US voter.

Why didn't he bother with the serving in the military? Did he have better things to do? Was it beneath his dignity? Cowardice? The absence of an active war or the draft doesn't get him off the hook.

Military service isn't (and shouldn't) be a qualification for president, but it doesn't hurt. Being able to understand those whom you may have to send into harm's way is a valuable asset.

ways to serve; the military isn't and shouldn't be the only 'game' in town.

Funny you didn't 'ask yourself' why Kristol didn't serve.

He's not running for president.

Military service should never be a prerequisite for president.

Hell, the current moron in chief never served.

Oh, that's right, he guarded the skies over Texas until he ran away from duty.

because he was a drunken, cocaine-addled white pretty-boy with lots of connections.

Or maybe not.

.... has a son or daughter serving in Iraq?

And how the heck has Billy Boy K ever served his country?

Oh yeah, he serves corporate power instead - which in his diseased mind, equals patriotism....

Second - military service is a job. It comes with a salary. If you can make more money doing something else, why wouldn't you? This is America. People have bills to pay. If everyone served in the military there would be too many people serving. We don't need millions of soldiers. We need a diverse population of people persuing all sorts of vocations. This crap about Obama not joining the military is absurd.

If Obama wants to start multiple wars when he is elected then I might have a problem. Just like the current admin that starts wars and sends others off to die when they were too cowardly to enlist when the country actually needed volunteers and others that used deferments to avoid the draft.

on their bullshit.