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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1155950)	8/10/2019 7:51:00 AM
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Just a despicable piece of shit ( or two ) - these bastards control the fate of millions - why - McConnell has always been a coward McConnell enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve as a private at Louisville, Kentucky.[14] This was a coveted position because the Reserve units were mostly kept out of combat during the Vietnam War.[14][15] His first day of training at Fort Knox was July 9, 1967, two days after taking the bar exam, and his last day was August 15, 1967.[10][14] Shortly after his arrival, he was diagnosed with optic neuritis and was deemed medically unfit for military service.[14][16] After five weeks at Fort Knox, he was honorably discharged.[14] His brief time in service has repeatedly been put at issue by his political opponents during his electoral campaigns.[14][16] Although McConnell has allowed reporters to examine parts of his military record and take notes, he has refused to allow copies to be made or to disclose his entire record, despite calls by his opponents to do so.[14] His time in service has also been the subject of criticism because his discharge was accelerated after his father placed a call to Senator John Sherman Cooper, who then sent a wire to the commanding general at Fort Knox on August 10, advising that "Mitchell [is] anxious to clear post in order to enroll in NYU".[14][15] He was allowed to leave post just five days later, though McConnell maintains that no one helped him with his enlistment into or discharge from the reserves.[14][15] According to McConnell, he struggled through the exercises at basic training and was sent to a doctor for a physical examination, which revealed McConnell's optic neuritis.[10] McConnell did not attend NYU.[14][15] From Eugene Robinson on Trump - recent events It is not just his stoking of white-supremacist sentiment that makes Donald Trump such a dangerously unfit president. It's also the corruption, the weakness, the ignorance, the incompetence and the stunning lack of empathy - all of which we saw this week on grotesque display. What kind of man visits two grieving communities, shattered by horrific mass shootings, and somehow makes it all about him? I covered the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 and had trouble sleeping for weeks afterward; colleagues of mine have had similar reactions to other massacres. Yet what apparently lingered with President Trump from his trip Wednesday to Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso was the tone of the coverage he received on cable news. No one expected Trump to play the consoler-in-chief role particularly well; we know him by now and grade him on a curve. His prepared statement Monday on the deadly shootings, which he read from a teleprompter with all the passion of a hostage tape, was about all anyone could expect. But even with my jaundiced view of this president, I couldn't have imagined that soon after getting home to the White House, he would be tweeting about all the "love, respect & enthusiasm" he was shown and complaining that the "Fake News worked overtime trying to disparage me."