November 04, 2006
Although there are plenty of well-educated people in our armed forces -- Kerry was one of them -- military service has long been an opportunity employer for those with less education and fewer skills than they need to work in the private sector. Indeed, the military sells itself as a place to garner skills and to help pay for higher education.I guess Kerry's point is that the military should cut back on pay, benefits, and educational assistance, so that the stupid, underprivileged victims sucked into the war machine's maw will decide to join the Peace Corps instead.And wars, including this one, are often fought by those less privileged -- albeit no less smart -- than the sons and daughters of those who lead us into them.
Apologies? Sure, from the cut-and-run Democratic candidates who've cancelled appearances with Kerry.
This whole flap exposes Kerry and his many supporters on the Left, as thinking deep down that military service is somehow shameful, and beneath young people unless they have "...less education and fewer skills."
Kerry seems to be trying to re-live his glory days when he stabbed his comrades in the back, testifying before Congress that they were war criminals. This revolting act of betrayal was, in fact, cynically used by Kerry to enter the political world.
Via Stop the ACLU.
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Despite round-the-clock coverage of John Kerry’s Iraq gaffe this week and non-stop rallies in which the President paints Democrats as weak-on-terror tax lovers, the political momentum has returned to the Democrats. Maybe that’s because nearly a third of registered voters (32 percent) now say Iraq is the most important issue in deciding their vote. The economy comes in second at 19 percent. And just 12 percent say terrorism, the Republican trump card in the last three elections, is their most important issue. In fact, as millions of Americans fill in their employers’ health-care selection forms for next year, terrorism is statistically tied with health care at 11 percent.
Meanwhile, the President’s approval has fallen back to 35 percent, after a slow but steady rise from 33 percent at the beginning of October to 37 percent in the NEWSWEEK poll last week.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15557264/site/newsweek/
Hmmm...seems it didn't hurt the Dems, but the GOP's and Bush's poll numbers keep falling, since the GOP and Bush (and you guys, here), are keeping Bush's failed policy in Iraq number 1 on the voters minds.
Thanks for the help, but we were doing ok, before you helped us on this one with all the talk about Kerry.
Posted by: PuddleDuck at November 04, 2006 04:26 PM (fMHQi)
The real question is, "why do Democrats loathe the military?" - this loathing is not new, either; witness the frantic efforts of Dem lawyers to invalidate military absentee ballots in Florida in 2000. Today's Dems loathe the military because it stands in the way of what they need for political success: American defeat in the War on Terror.
Another good question is, "why have we not been attacked in the past five years?" - that's an easy one. We made the choice to move the battlefield from Manhattan to the Middle East, where our military has been successful in eliminating tens of thousands of terrorists, forcing Islamist factions to expend their resources in their own backyards, rather than ours.
My votes will be cast based on which party I consider to be best qualified to perform that most basic of duties: ensuring the safety of the Republic. You could get me to vote Democrat by convincing me that the Dems are concerned, first and foremost, with that duty.
I can guarantee you that the sort of desperate trollish comments that you have specialized in here will not accomplish that objective.
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at November 04, 2006 06:48 PM (vBK4C)
Posted by: Greyrooster at November 04, 2006 08:30 PM (cNF2m)
Your polls said the same thing in 2000, 2002, and 2004. What makes you think they will prove any more accurate this time around?
Thanks for the wake up call, Kerry. A lot of brainwashed Americans needed it.
Posted by: Jeff Bargholz at November 05, 2006 09:01 AM (bLPT+)
mouth, and then shoots himself in the foot, all the little lefturds
come out to fling their feces around like the assmonkeys they are. A
good lefturd is a dead one.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 05, 2006 12:21 PM (v3I+x)
He's such a dick.
I, as a veteran of the Army Guard, take SERIOUS offense at this latest load of horseshit. By ignoring that a large number of Guardsmen and Reservists join to pay for college, he just shit on the backbone of the military.
Wow.
I'm beside myself, now.
He quite literally is the gift to republicans that just won't stop giving - regardless of who he pisses off.
What're the chances if the dems take one up the poop-shoot on Tuesday that the jettison him ala Lieberman?
Probably nil, but it's fun to think about.
Posted by: yo at November 06, 2006 01:28 AM (fkcf6)
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