Yeah? So?

This a.m., I sent out an email to the evil political email group with Drudge's link to John Kerry's statement to the effect that if student's didn't do well in school, they might have to go to Iraq.

Heh heh heh.

I received a comment back from the president of a liberal fundraising company:  "Yeah?  So?  And your point is....?"

Way too many liberals believe just this.  They believe that the only people who serve in the military are the ones who can't make it anywhere else.  The ones who are either too stupid to get into college - or too dumb to stay there - or, perhaps not quite that dumb, but lacking the funds and hoping to get some scholarships after school. These liberals cannot conceive that people with other choices in life, with intelligence and options, would actually choose to serve our nation in war.

As the Captain says....  do we truly want someone like this heading up our military?  You would think that the veil is lifted with this sound bite.  Yet, I'm sure that our MSM will find some way to spin the truth out of it.

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[Greg]

Just to back up your point, there is the story of Pat Tillman. He was the NFL football player who walked away from a 3.6 million dollar contract to enlist in the Army as a Ranger with his brother. He was later killed in action under friendly fire, but for some reason the administration and the Army lied about how he died for political gains. Just the other day his brother wrote a very moving piece. For those who would like to read Kevin Tillman's letter can go here

http://www.truthdig.com/report/print/200601019_after_pats_birthday/

[oldprof]

My nephew is extremely intelligent and served in Iraq. The son of (our mutual) good friend is a college ROTC grad who has served there.

I would be interested in your parsing of the Keith Olbermann analysis of the statement. The Kerry statement is somewhat ambiguous ....

You had such a careful and measured approach to the prior thing on Olbermann, why not have a try on the current one.