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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 06:51 PM Feb 2013

Petition: Draft Ted Nugent to Serve in Afghanistan

Ted Nugent is perhaps the most courageous man in America. America needs courageous men. Hence, I've launched a petition to draft Ted Nugent to serve on the front lines in Afghanistan.

You may well wonder why Mr. Nugent has not already made this decision on his own. This is a complex medical affair: while courageous in a way rarely encountered this side of Chuck Norris, Mr. Nugent has long been plagued by an allergy to active duty. I stress that this is an allergy, not a personal disposition. There is a vast difference, yo.

Ted Nugent wants to fight. He just can't bring himself to do so, because of this unfortunate and rare ailment. We can help.

When called up to serve in Vietnam, Ted Nugent allegedly contracted a serious bowel condition. We have this allegation from an impeccable source: Ted Nugent. In an article in High Times magazine in 1977, Mr. Nugent described this rare and unpleasant intestinal failure in gruesome detail. When he finally presented himself for duty, he was a walking disease of a human being, and the army wouldn't touch him: "They'd call dead people before they'd call my ass."

Note that this in no way reflects upon Mr. Nugent's courage or capabilities. It is also, as "The Nuge" himself points out, something of an irony:

But you know the funny thing about it? I'd make an incredible army man. I'd be a colonel before you knew what hit you, and I'd have the baddest bunch of motherf*uckin' killers you'd ever seen in my platoon. But I just wasn't into it. I was too busy doin' my own thing, you know?

We do know. And now that your own thing involves rocking heavily on behalf of guns and the constitutional right to high-capacity magazines, you should have the opportunity to do it, right? Your own thing.

We can help.

>snip<

Please sign here: https://www.change.org/petitions/president-barack-obama-draft-ted-nugent-to-serve-on-the-front-lines-in-afghanistan?utm_campaign=twitter_link&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition

The petition reads: "Ted Nugent, draft dodger, should have the opportunity to redeem his sullied reputation, so that he can drown us in a cesspool of guns. In fact, we should make him do this. An executive order is appropriate: Mr. President, conscript the Nuge."


More at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/douglas-anthony-cooper/petition-draft-ted-nugent_b_2665464.html

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Petition: Draft Ted Nugent to Serve in Afghanistan (Original Post) Playinghardball Feb 2013 OP
IMPORTANT: NEW "DRAFT TED NUGENT" PETITION ADDRESS dysmedia Feb 2013 #1
hmmmm... I can't support this... Ohio Joe Feb 2013 #2
As if...a confirmed Republican Chickenhawk like Nugent would ever do the honorable thing Berlum Feb 2013 #3
I fully support pushing him out of a plane over Afghanistan. krispos42 Feb 2013 #4
Bleeding-heart liberal! Ian Iam Feb 2013 #6
I expect him to come back... krispos42 Feb 2013 #7
;-) Ian Iam Feb 2013 #8
Only after all the troops leave.... whistler162 Feb 2013 #5
just saw you had my thought ten minutes earlier arely staircase Feb 2013 #10
only after the withdrawal is complete, making him an army of one arely staircase Feb 2013 #9

dysmedia

(1 post)
1. IMPORTANT: NEW "DRAFT TED NUGENT" PETITION ADDRESS
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 08:52 PM
Feb 2013

Thanks for reporting this. The White House has pulled the original petition, as it's against the Terms of Service (unlike, say, petitions to secede from the Union.) So I've relaunched it at change.org. Please note the new address:

https://t.co/heeI8Vlg

Share, tweet, celebrate! Gracias.

Berlum

(7,044 posts)
3. As if...a confirmed Republican Chickenhawk like Nugent would ever do the honorable thing
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 08:56 PM
Feb 2013

...America would be amazed...

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
4. I fully support pushing him out of a plane over Afghanistan.
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 09:05 PM
Feb 2013

I'll even give him a parachute and his precious Glock 20.


Hell, I'll even let him put it on before he gets pushed out of the plane.

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