Major rant.
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I just watched a clip about "The Hornets Nest" on FOX NEWS. Where else are you going to hear about it?
I have also been paying attention to the scandals (very small word) developing about OUR SOLDIERS treatment at the VA facilities. Cutting benefits for the MILITARY and paying for illegal immigrants college is so xxxxxxx wrong. I remember being spit on at san francisco airport when I came home in 1969.
I went from a life long democrat to a republican and did some major fund raising all the way up to the state level and met a lot of "big" grinning players. I became a total independent with no party affiliation. I remember clinton having to be pardoned by carter so he could run for president and the clintonistas loathing the MILITARY. Of course today they will all tell you how much they care about OUR PEOPLE IN UNIFORM. And in the next breath screw them. And I remember billary being shocked into silence when she found out her MILITARY Liaison had more degrees then her entire staff. The same MILITARY Liason that carried the Missing whitewater papers in his briefcase. Read "Dereliction of Duty".
Nothing has changed....they have all mastered talking out of both sides of their mouths and they are all conniving lying hypocrites.
I love my country, but I despise the cheats that make the rules.
I have also been paying attention to the scandals (very small word) developing about OUR SOLDIERS treatment at the VA facilities. Cutting benefits for the MILITARY and paying for illegal immigrants college is so xxxxxxx wrong. I remember being spit on at san francisco airport when I came home in 1969.
I went from a life long democrat to a republican and did some major fund raising all the way up to the state level and met a lot of "big" grinning players. I became a total independent with no party affiliation. I remember clinton having to be pardoned by carter so he could run for president and the clintonistas loathing the MILITARY. Of course today they will all tell you how much they care about OUR PEOPLE IN UNIFORM. And in the next breath screw them. And I remember billary being shocked into silence when she found out her MILITARY Liaison had more degrees then her entire staff. The same MILITARY Liason that carried the Missing whitewater papers in his briefcase. Read "Dereliction of Duty".
Nothing has changed....they have all mastered talking out of both sides of their mouths and they are all conniving lying hypocrites.
I love my country, but I despise the cheats that make the rules.
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My wife tells me to stop watching the news cause I rant to her every morning about some BS I here from our "leaders". I stand behind our flag and country but not our leaders
Some consider Clinton a little bit of a draft dodger apparently... pardoned as Carter blanket pardoned the people that avoided the Vietnam war. This of course is a matter of opinion rather than fact.
While he wasn't technically a draft dodger, he did do everything he could to avoid being drafted.
But he did follow proper channels in doing so, with help from his step father and family.
So technically, he never broke the law.
At the time that he ran for congress, there were those who tried to use the "draft dodging" against him, but since he was one of the few who followed proper channels in avoiding the draft, he wasn't technically a draft dodger.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
The prop people look excited to be here.
I stand corrected. He moved in and out of 1-A and ROTC so many times, while protesting in the streets of England, it eventually kept him out of the draft dodger realm, and that is where he got his nick name "slick willy" and he avoided being labeled a criminal, and just missed carter's blanket amnesty. And actually I knew that and I don't know why I didn't say so.
"It was just a fluke," Clinton would say decades later, when first asked how he had made it through this period without serving in the military. But of course it was not a fluke. A fluke is a wholly accidental stroke of good luck. What happened to Clinton during that fateful year did not happen by accident. He fretted and planned every move, he got help from others when needed, he resorted to some deception or manipulation when necessary, and he was ultimately lucky." Maraniss.
I watch cbs because my mother-in-law does. I watch good morning AMERICA because my wife does. I spend a minimum of 2 hours watching bbc and other "news" shows. msnbc is a joke and I don't waste my time. And I watch The 5 and 1 hour of FOX NEWS. I have been waiting for 4 years for other "news" shows to catch up and they finally are.
My error addressed above.
Please except my apologies for the rant. I should know better, but the way our MILITARY is being treated is a major and emotional issue for me, and that is all it was supposed to be about.
Huh.....
If you had said that alone, you would have agreement all around. I, too, believe Shinseki must go and there needs to be a total bi-partisan investigation of the VA scandal, heads need to roll, and Obama must come out and claim overall responsibility for this happening on his watch. So far, he's managing this whole mess terribly...which, unfortunately, has become a hallmark of his second term.
However, mistreatment of wounded veterans is not a "Democrat" thing. The huge scandal of horrible conditions at Walter Reed Hospital happened on the watch of Dubya Bush.
Unfortunately, you derailed your own argument by rolling out all this tired conspiracy blather. If Clinton was a draft dodger, so also were *** Cheney, Mitt Romney, Karl Rove, Donald Trump, Newt Gingrich and Mitch O'Connell, all of whom took deferments of one kind of the other to avoid serving in Vietnam. Dubya Bush avoided Vietnam by having Daddy pull strings to get him into the Texas Air Force, where he didn't show up for duty for months at a time. And Carter certainly didn't pardon Clinton, since Clinton hadn't committed a crime that Carter, as president, could have pardoned.
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To the original point. Not surprised by any corruption, it is blind to party lines. Been going on since the beginning of Governments. When it comes to $$ nothing is sacred.
Did you miss my retraction and correction? Where did I spare any party or individual? I became an independent for a reason.
Revolution, 1812, Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korean, Viet Nam... War after war, more and bigger benefits were promised, more and bigger promises were broken. All parties and every administration have failed to fix this. The first director of the VA was sacked in two years and convicted of fraud. Can you imagine the present regime convicting anyone?
This is the leopard. These are his spots.
Next time you see a vet at a stoplight with a cardboard sign, hand him a five. That's prolly more effective than promising to fix the VA hospitals.