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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (6733)	11/22/2003 6:37:21 AM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 10965

Clinton never served, and it didn't seem to hurt him. Similarly, the dems' obsession with a "war-hero" candidate for 2004 is misplaced. The Commander in Chief doesn't formulate the battle plans, doesn't personally lead the charge against the enemy. LBJ tried that with Vietnam, personally picking bombing sites, and look what happened. The dems' failure to learn from history might explain why they constantly want to re-write it. FDR, probably the second greatest wartime President (next to Lincoln) was a partially paralyzed polio survivor who never served at all. As for Lincoln: "...In June 1860, Lincoln asserted to biographer John L. Scripps that he had "not since had any success in life which gave him so much satisfaction" as having served as Captain in the Black Hawk War, though he did not claim heroism in battle. In an anecdotal speech delivered on July 27, 1848 while "a fledgling congressman in our nation’s House of Representatives at Washington…[Lincoln spoke:]…by the way, Mr. Speaker, did you know I am a military hero? Yes sir; in the days of the Black Hawk War, I fought, bled, and camp away…," admitting that he broke no black in combat, poking fun at Democratic General Lewis Cass who aspired to be president that year, Lincoln said, "but I bent a musket pretty badly on one occasion." He proclaimed the mosquitoes caused his only loss of blood." - il.ngb.army.mil

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (6733)	11/22/2003 12:35:31 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10965

What's wrong with questioning Dean's draft record? You think he's some angel above all the others who cannot be questioned? Kerry gets attacked for minutia in his life all the time and Dean never gets questioned. Wel he should be. Before he gives the White House back to Bush. His credibility is also in question here. Dean took on Kerry, saying his Silver Star etc. didn't mean anything. But when it was his turn to be drafted, Dean got a suspicious medical report from a friendly doctor about a supposedly bad back, a condition which never reappeared. Proof is Dean then went off to Colorado to be a ski bum and got a job there doing heavy manual labor. As if you can do those things with a bad back. When asked about it, the Dr. Dean could not even remember the back condition he had. He said he was an internist not a back doctor. Hmm, sounds very Bush like. Bush couldn't remember what he was doing in 1972, remember?