Barack Obama 'wanted to join US military'

[bijou]

It remains to be seen whether this turns out to be Barack Obama's "Christmas in Cambodia" untruth, his Dukakis-in-tank hilarity -- or both.

Regardless, what follows is a pretty obvious "misstatement" that would not possibly be ignored if it were uttered by a conservative or a Republican.

In his hilariously titled post ("Mighta Joined If He Coulda Capped Some Cong") on Barack Obama's interview in a barn this morning (not kidding) on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, fellow NewsBuster Mark Finkelstein reported on Obama's answer to a viewer's question about whether he ever considered military service. You can read Mark's post for his overall thoughts, but I want to focus on something the Illinois senator said that several commenters at the post took exception to (photo courtesy DayLife):

You know, I had to sign up for Selective Service when I graduated from high school. .... But keep in mind: I graduated in 1979.

There are only two "little" problems:


Selective Service Registration was not possible in 1979.
Bob Owens at Pajamas Media noted that Obama registered with the Selective Service with an effective date of September 4, 1980.
...more...

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/09/07/o-busted-selective-service-requirement-did-not-exist-when-obama-says-he-

Oops.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

"And I actually always thought of the military as an ennobling and, you know, honourable option. But keep in mind that I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it's not an option that I ever decided to pursue."

There was this thing called the Cold War...maybe you heard of it.

Massive, expansionist empire that murdered millions of its own.

The US military was central in holding it behind its own Iron Curtain.

Of course for someone running with Saul Alinsky and Bill Ayers that probably seems like a bad thing to your type.

[Crazy Horse]

BULLSHIT.....BULLSHIT AND MORE BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ears obama loathes the military and never wanted to be part of its brotherhood.

[Airwolf]

"And I actually always thought of the military as an ennobling and, you know, honourable option. But keep in mind that I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it's not an option that I ever decided to pursue."


WTF over? I graduated from High School in 1977 and had two years of college after that. because of Jimmy Carters economy there wasn't much choice for employment if you didn't have something worthy like college to get hired over. I decided that going to school wasn't cutting it when I needed money right now and I then joined up. It's not that hard to do Barry if you had the balls to do what was right and not get involved in radical socialism and Marxism.

You should have become a Community Organizer.

LOL. This town already has more of those that really help others then it needs. They actually do things for people unlike Barry's way of doing community service.