{"id":1679,"date":"2008-05-17T14:32:53","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T18:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2008-05-17T14:32:53","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T18:32:53","slug":"is-there-any-doubt-that-democrats-loath-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"Is There Any Doubt that Democrats Loath the Military?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Clinton famously articulated this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The following is Bill Clinton’s December 1969 letter to his ROTC Director, Colonel Eugene Holmes. This text was taken verbatim from “SLICK WILLIE”, by Floyd G. Brown. Not a word has been changed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am writing too in the hope that my telling this one story will help you to understand more clearly how so many fine people have come to find themselves still loving their country but loathing the military\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is unless they can hype up their military service for purely political leverage. John Kerry\u2019s spectacular three months in Vietnam and Max Cleland\u2019s heroic stories of combat in Vietnam that turned out to be a dumb ass who blew himself up on a beer run are great examples.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton even claimed to have tried to join the Marines:<\/p>\n

She told the group gathered for lunch in the Dirksen Office Building, according to The Associated Press, that she became interested in the military in 1975, the year she married Bill Clinton and the year she was teaching at the University of Arkansas law school in Fayetteville. <\/p>\n

She was 27 then, she said, and the Marine recruiter was about 21. She was interested in joining either the active forces or the reserves, she recalled, but was swiftly rebuffed by the recruiter, who took a dim view of her age and her thick glasses. ‘Not Very Encouraging’ <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To believe this story of course \u201crequires the suspension of disbelief\u201d. 1975 was the year she married Bill. They were both teaching law in Arkansas where Bill was already seen as a shoe-in to be the next Attorney General.<\/p>\n

And we are to believe that this newlywed to a rising star was trying to join the Marines?<\/p>\n

Now the noted social anthropologist, Tom Harkin has declared that growing up in a military family is \u201cdangerous<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to Senator Harkin, (D-IA), this is a bad thing. Not just bad, but potentially dangerous:<\/p>\n

Republican presidential candidate John McCain\u2019s family background as the son and grandson of admirals has given him a worldview shaped by the military, \u201cand he has a hard time thinking beyond that,\u201d Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Ia., said Friday. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think he\u2019s trapped in that,\u201d Harkin said in a conference call with Iowa reporters. \u201cEverything is looked at from his life experiences, from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harkin said that \u201cit\u2019s one thing to have been drafted and served, but another thing when you come from generations of military people and that\u2019s just how you\u2019re steeped, how you\u2019ve learned, how you\u2019ve grown up.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course Harkin was busted as a fake war hero years ago. Since he can\u2019t claim to be a war hero any longer, he has now decided that even being in a military family is \u201cdangerous\u201d.<\/p>\n

Harkin\u2019s heroic service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the exception of political posturing, these people do in fact \u201cloath the military\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Clinton famously articulated this: The following is Bill Clinton’s December 1969 letter to his ROTC … Is There Any Doubt that Democrats Loath the Military?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}