Reply #11: The president of the Young Republicans on the campus where

[Democrat 4 Ever]

I attended school last year (both of us Poly Sci majors so we had a lot of classes together over the years) told me with an absolutely straight face - "Joining the military is not MY destiny in supporting this country. I am going to law school and then join the government later and run for office. I am going to change the country from within." We had a friendly, talk in class relationship but I told him that he was a chickenshit chicken hawk that was talking the talking but couldn't begin to walk the walk. That during World War I, WWII, Korea and the Viet Nam war millions of people put their lives on hold because of the war, enlisted and fought because they knew the real meaning of supporting freedom and their country. Told him he was the worst kind of repug - that he was just in it for the money and was letting others do his supporting for him. And that he was no better than Chimpy.

This guy is smart, glib, Joe College from the top of his carefully styled coif, button down shirt, pressed khakis to the tip of his penny loafers but he did not have one ounce of understanding anything about this country but what it could do for him. I told him he should be ashamed. We somehow still managed a friendly in-class relationship (he was always needing my notes - he was too busy with political stuff to attend all the classes) but he never, ever try to engage in any type of political conversation again.