{"id":30374,"date":"2012-06-13T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T13:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30374"},"modified":"2012-06-13T09:37:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T13:37:33","slug":"votevets-romney-and-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30374","title":{"rendered":"VoteVets; Romney and draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, last week, Jon Soltz from the &#8220;non-partisan&#8221; organization VoteVets was on that show on MSNBC which has that idiot Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell hosting. At about 5:38 into this video, O&#8217;Donnell mentions that Mitt Romney had four deferments for college and his missionary work during the Vietnam War and Jon Soltz condemns Romney for avoiding the draft.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D0jGU89FBPs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>See, I was under the impression that VoteVets didn&#8217;t have a problem with deferments from the draft because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20824\">they helped Harry Reid&#8217;s campaign in the last election<\/a> and Reid had successfully avoided the draft while he enjoyed deferments. But suddenly, when someone who is not a Democrat got college deferments for the draft, it&#8217;s a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, O&#8217;Donnell tells a whopper during the discussion. He says that the draft ended before he was old enough to face the draft. The last draft round was in 1972, the year I turned 17 (I was born in 1955). O&#8217;Donnell was born in 1951 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lawrence_O%27Donnell\">according to Wiki<\/a>, which means that O&#8217;Donnell was 21 years old the year that the draft ended, which also means that he got deferments for college (you were eligible for the draft when you turned 18 years old), and yet here he is criticizing Romney for it. Wiki says that O&#8217;Donnell graduated from high school in 1970, so he got at least two deferments before the draft ended.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m guessing that the word hypocrisy isn&#8217;t in their vocabulary around that network or whatever they call that show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, last week, Jon Soltz from the &#8220;non-partisan&#8221; organization VoteVets was on that show on MSNBC &hellip; <a title=\"VoteVets; Romney and draft\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30374\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VoteVets; Romney and draft<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-election","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30374","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}