2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: OK-I'll put it here-Hillary Lied about coming under fire... [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)your KID is? Typical situational horse hockey! It's the crime of the century when SHE does it, but when he does it, it's tune up the Excuse Making Orchestra!
And I don't recall him "laughing" when he was confronted with that sex essay. He took it quite seriously and said it was stupid, bad, awful and didn't reflect his present views. Odd that you would characterize him as laughing about the topics raised in that hot mess.
The infantalizing of an adult male needs to cease. "I'm sorry" for anyone who feels that they have to do that to support their chosen candidate.
And if you seriously think that comparing Sanders to the Bush brothers makes this situation "better" I still have one of those bridges for sale.
For you to go so far as to INSIST Hillary could have served in the military is laughable, too. At the time, women servicemembers who wanted to marry were not paid at the "with dependents" rate--their husbands were expected to provide them with housing--it was a blatantly "unequal pay" situation to encourage married women to leave service. Pregnant women, too, were discharged against their will because pregnancy was deemed "incompatible" with military service. Do some homework before you make absurd statements like that. If she'd been serving in the military. in the few shitty jobs that were open to women at the time, she wouldn't have been able to go to law school and serve on the House Impeachment committee while Sanders was busily trying to avoid the draft. And more to the point, there was no DRAFT for women--there was one for men.
Once BS had his kid, though, he went from 1-A to 3-C and didn't have to worry about CO applications anymore. That's how Cheney avoided the draft, too.
And GW Bush was an AWOL tool--but you keep insisting that the National Guard is not "the military." See how much traction THAT comment will getcha. The Guard/Reserves are represented on the JCS. Guard/Reservists are buried in Arlington National Cemetery. You'd do well to retract that remark, quick.
The fact that a guy who wants to be CinC tried to get out of the draft IS an issue--and it WILL come up again. The DU brooms sweeping everything under the rug might work here, but they won't work out in that Big Old Real World.
Stand By.