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I just saw a certified “hockey mom” on the Today Show say, “If someone is going to lead this country, they have to have served.”  Naturally she is a McCain supporter.  I couldn’t help think of the irony of this woman’s statement; she probably voted for Bush instead of Kerry in ‘04, and then Bush over Gore in ’00.  These are just speculations, but there is a good chance that they are true.  Then I thought of the list of President’s who have not served: George W. Bush (going AWOL in the Texas Air National Guard does not count), Bill Clinton, FDR, Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, Warren G. Harding, Woodrow Wilson, Taft, Cleveland, Van Buren, John Quincy Adams, and John Adams.  Then guys like Lincoln, Carter, and Reagan served but never saw combat, making the argument irrelevant.  Of course the thoughtless rebuttal would be, “Times are different, this is a time of war.”  But that again makes no sense being that Wilson served as President during WWI without any military experience and W has been President for the past eight years, entering the US into countless combat situations all without any real experience. 

I think of the line from McCain’s RNC acceptance speech that went along the lines of, “I know how to win wars,” and I laugh.  Did he not serve in Vietnam?  And did he not get captured by the enemy?  And then was he not released until after the war was all but lost?  Does anyone else not see how ironic this is?  If there is anyone that does not ‘know how to win wars’ it is McCain.  If there is anyone that does not know how to fight, it is McCain.  If there is anyone anybody should vote for, it is Obama.     

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