The Politics of Military Service
In my opinion, National Guard Reservist Captain Beau Biden and Army Private Track Palin are American heroes. I think anyone who chooses to wear the uniform is. You certainly don’t have to come home in a flag-draped coffin to earn the distinction.
That I can find no mainstream media news account letting Americans know that Captain Biden is “being deployed to Iraq” to serve in the Judge Advocate General’s office shows how embarrassed the Left is of Captain Biden’s service (maybe officers are required to carry a sidearm but maybe there’s a prohibition against carrying a sidearm in an office, too; I just don’t know). I suggest the Left is as embarrassed as it was that former US Senator Max Cleland’s (Captain, US Army, ret.) horrible war time injuries were not as the result of combat.
It is extraordinary that I have seen significantly more stories in the media about Captain Biden’s National Guard “deployment to Iraq” than I have about Army Private Palin’s.
Whatever military service narrative serves the Democrat the best is the narrative spun by the liberal extremists who control the media.
You know, I keep forgetting that Sen. McCain’s son, a Lance Corporal in the United States Marines, already served a year in combat in Iraq. You see, a more truthful narrative is not convenient for the Left.
Captain Biden and Private Palin are American heroes and anyone who reads this post and doesn’t understand that is by his or her choice. I’m not embarrassed by Captain Biden’s service, it is Democrats who appear to be. I’m certainly not embarrassed by Captain Cleland’s service, it was Democrats who appeared to be.
I certainly thought Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell’s service was honorable despite the tired refrain from the Left that no one in the Bush White House served in the United States military (President Bush served in the Air National Guard so I think you get my point).
Sens. John F. Kerry and Jack Reed, Rep. Jack Murtha and the ten Vietnam veterans who supported Sen. Kerry during his failed Presidential campaign were not the only heroes of the Vietnam War and all other Veterans part of the "millions of monsters", as Sen. Kerry testified in 1971.
In other news, these are two letters I fired off to the Boston Globe today; neither needs any introduction other than it's okay to hate on the Left:
Editor,
No objective observer could conclude that Sen. Joseph Biden's Vice Presidential debate performance was any better than Gov. Sarah Palin's that it justified 58 letters last week hostile to Gov. Palin and only 10 of mixed support for Sen. Biden (Hot Topics, October 11).
The disparity, 58 - 10!, is more evidence of just how unhinged the Left is. (End of first letter.)
Editor,
It is, of course, outrageous that Sen. Barack Obama is cast as the hero and victim in a story about Sen. John McCain silencing a supporter at one of his campaign stops on Friday and calling for more civility on the campaign trail (Supporters jeer as McCain calls Obama a "decent person', October 11, A1).
Sen. Obama in perfect victim fashion said, "It's easy to rile up a crowd by stoking anger and division. But that's not what we need right now in the United States."
Well, Sen. Obama should know. It was, after all, Sen. Obama who not so cleverly called Gov. Palin a "pig" to the delight of his supporters. (End of second letter.)
In my opinion, National Guard Reservist Captain Beau Biden and Army Private Track Palin are American heroes. I think anyone who chooses to wear the uniform is. You certainly don’t have to come home in a flag-draped coffin to earn the distinction.
That I can find no mainstream media news account letting Americans know that Captain Biden is “being deployed to Iraq” to serve in the Judge Advocate General’s office shows how embarrassed the Left is of Captain Biden’s service (maybe officers are required to carry a sidearm but maybe there’s a prohibition against carrying a sidearm in an office, too; I just don’t know). I suggest the Left is as embarrassed as it was that former US Senator Max Cleland’s (Captain, US Army, ret.) horrible war time injuries were not as the result of combat.
It is extraordinary that I have seen significantly more stories in the media about Captain Biden’s National Guard “deployment to Iraq” than I have about Army Private Palin’s.
Whatever military service narrative serves the Democrat the best is the narrative spun by the liberal extremists who control the media.
You know, I keep forgetting that Sen. McCain’s son, a Lance Corporal in the United States Marines, already served a year in combat in Iraq. You see, a more truthful narrative is not convenient for the Left.
Captain Biden and Private Palin are American heroes and anyone who reads this post and doesn’t understand that is by his or her choice. I’m not embarrassed by Captain Biden’s service, it is Democrats who appear to be. I’m certainly not embarrassed by Captain Cleland’s service, it was Democrats who appeared to be.
I certainly thought Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell’s service was honorable despite the tired refrain from the Left that no one in the Bush White House served in the United States military (President Bush served in the Air National Guard so I think you get my point).
Sens. John F. Kerry and Jack Reed, Rep. Jack Murtha and the ten Vietnam veterans who supported Sen. Kerry during his failed Presidential campaign were not the only heroes of the Vietnam War and all other Veterans part of the "millions of monsters", as Sen. Kerry testified in 1971.
In other news, these are two letters I fired off to the Boston Globe today; neither needs any introduction other than it's okay to hate on the Left:
Editor,
No objective observer could conclude that Sen. Joseph Biden's Vice Presidential debate performance was any better than Gov. Sarah Palin's that it justified 58 letters last week hostile to Gov. Palin and only 10 of mixed support for Sen. Biden (Hot Topics, October 11).
The disparity, 58 - 10!, is more evidence of just how unhinged the Left is. (End of first letter.)
Editor,
It is, of course, outrageous that Sen. Barack Obama is cast as the hero and victim in a story about Sen. John McCain silencing a supporter at one of his campaign stops on Friday and calling for more civility on the campaign trail (Supporters jeer as McCain calls Obama a "decent person', October 11, A1).
Sen. Obama in perfect victim fashion said, "It's easy to rile up a crowd by stoking anger and division. But that's not what we need right now in the United States."
Well, Sen. Obama should know. It was, after all, Sen. Obama who not so cleverly called Gov. Palin a "pig" to the delight of his supporters. (End of second letter.)
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