BlueStorm781
CAGiversary!
Okay, help me figure something out here. Kerry, for many months, has been throwing out his war record to everyone, and slamming Bush for hiding his. It has been said that Bush has spent time in the Air Force Reserve, we just don't know how long he's been there. But as far as we know, he put in some millitary service.
Anyway, so Kerry thinks Bush is the wrong person to command our millitary (among other things) because of lax millitary service. But hold on, Mabel! What about Mr. Clinton? You know, one of the keynote speakers of this years DNC? As I do recall, he was a DRAFT DODGER OF THE EXACT SAME WAR KERRY SAID HE FOUGHT IN!
Wait, so you're saying that a Democrat backing Kerry, a Vietnam war veteran, was a draft dodger of the same war? He must be infurriated! But, he's not. I guess since you're in the same party, it doesn't matter what your credentials were. If Kerry (and the Democratic party) were so concerned about Bush's time served in the millitary, and have this treated as a bad thing, then why would you allow a draft-dodger, which is worse, to support you for your presidency? Sounds like double-standards to me. "Boo on Bush for not proving his time spent in service, but let's not say anything about Clinton who dodged the draft". Come on, people.
This is why I've said before that I don't care about someone's war record. It shouldn't be the basis for who becomes president, or even partial basis of it. If that were so, would Clinton have even been elected?
But this goes beyond the war record. It's about double-standards. Why does the Democratic party see that this is fine, yet if a Republican does it, they get called on it. Just like Gov. Schwarzenegger's remark about Democrats being "girly men". To me, that wasn't a very scathing remark, yet people blew this out of proprotion, and are expecting him to appologize. Yet at Kerry's fundraisers, it's okay for celebrities who support him come on stage and make rude and lewd sexual innuendos about the president. I don't remember his campagin appologizing?
I don't think it's fair to say it's wrong for one person to do or say something, and yet you do it yourself. It's hypocritical. And before you get on my ass about bashing democrats or the democratic party, this post was not to be that point. I'm asking why the Democratic party think it's okay to do something or support something within themselves, but blast the other party when they do the same thing. And I'm sure that Republicans have done this in the past as well with issuse and such, and that's wrong too. But when one party keeps blasting the other for something that someone in their party has done (and not chastize that person about it), it just seems stupid.
Anyway, so Kerry thinks Bush is the wrong person to command our millitary (among other things) because of lax millitary service. But hold on, Mabel! What about Mr. Clinton? You know, one of the keynote speakers of this years DNC? As I do recall, he was a DRAFT DODGER OF THE EXACT SAME WAR KERRY SAID HE FOUGHT IN!
Wait, so you're saying that a Democrat backing Kerry, a Vietnam war veteran, was a draft dodger of the same war? He must be infurriated! But, he's not. I guess since you're in the same party, it doesn't matter what your credentials were. If Kerry (and the Democratic party) were so concerned about Bush's time served in the millitary, and have this treated as a bad thing, then why would you allow a draft-dodger, which is worse, to support you for your presidency? Sounds like double-standards to me. "Boo on Bush for not proving his time spent in service, but let's not say anything about Clinton who dodged the draft". Come on, people.
This is why I've said before that I don't care about someone's war record. It shouldn't be the basis for who becomes president, or even partial basis of it. If that were so, would Clinton have even been elected?
But this goes beyond the war record. It's about double-standards. Why does the Democratic party see that this is fine, yet if a Republican does it, they get called on it. Just like Gov. Schwarzenegger's remark about Democrats being "girly men". To me, that wasn't a very scathing remark, yet people blew this out of proprotion, and are expecting him to appologize. Yet at Kerry's fundraisers, it's okay for celebrities who support him come on stage and make rude and lewd sexual innuendos about the president. I don't remember his campagin appologizing?
I don't think it's fair to say it's wrong for one person to do or say something, and yet you do it yourself. It's hypocritical. And before you get on my ass about bashing democrats or the democratic party, this post was not to be that point. I'm asking why the Democratic party think it's okay to do something or support something within themselves, but blast the other party when they do the same thing. And I'm sure that Republicans have done this in the past as well with issuse and such, and that's wrong too. But when one party keeps blasting the other for something that someone in their party has done (and not chastize that person about it), it just seems stupid.