Reply #79: Well now, you've raised some salient

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reasons it could hurt him. I didn't get any sense of that from the first few posts.

I suppose my response is "If you had a way out would you have taken it?". Then there's the point that I seriously doubt he was considering a bid for the Presidency when his draft number was called. I also don't think he's talking about it "as if it's no big deal". I think he takes it pretty seriously actually, but what should he do now? The events are in the past. Should he lie about it when the facts are easily checked? Should he pretend it didn't happen?

He has no choice but to be honest about it when the subject is brought up.

Just between you and me this is extremely wierd! I'm the last person around here to defend Dean these days!:D