Mary, do you honestly care about Bush's National Guard service? If so, why?
I think it's hypocritical for people who were opposed to the Vietnam War to pretend that they wouldn't have cheered for young men avoiding military service at the time.
Remember "girls say yes to boys who say no"? Kerry himself was quite the anti-war hero, pretending to take part in protest rallies (actually he spent a lot of the time hanging out with political types at a Georgetown townhouse, drinking brandy), pretending to throw away his medals.
Of course, he did his duty beforehand, and Bush may have slacked off in his at the time. Would that matter much to you? Not me.
I have a theory that most people who slack off in their youth eventually get serious, buckle down, and become somebody by the time they are 26-27, and that is the very latest. If they don't buckle down by the time they are 27, they never will.
Plenty of people buckle down before then, don't get me wrong. I just mean that I don't think badly of a person who partied hearty in their youth. Maybe it's because I am a Catholic, and believe in forgiveness, rather than a Protestant, who believes in predestination.
BTW, Mary, I am starting to wonder whether you really are a Catholic. |
