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Offline JohnnyReb

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Just a reminder.
« on: January 16, 2010, 06:02:57 PM »
This was written/posted before Obama.

Presidents Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy were commissioned Navy officers before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford soon joined and received Navy commissions in 1942. George Bush was commissioned in June 1943 during naval flight training. James Carter graduated from Naval Academy in 1946.   Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower were Army officers. Ronald Reagan was Army Air Force captain. William Clinton was draft dodger. George W. Bush was fighter pilot. What is our next president?

12 presidents since WW2...10 of them X-military...and 7 or 8 of those weren't bad.
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Re: Just a reminder.
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2010, 12:32:22 PM »
Honestly, I can't hold that against Obama. I didn't serve - couldn't have even if I wanted to. Does that (alone) make me less qualified to be POTUS? I would hope that my radical right-wing agenda would make me... interesting.
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Re: Just a reminder.
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2010, 03:21:16 PM »
Quote from: bkg on January 18, 2010, 12:32:22 PM
Honestly, I can't hold that against Obama. I didn't serve - couldn't have even if I wanted to. Does that (alone) make me less qualified to be POTUS? I would hope that my radical right-wing agenda would make me... interesting.

During peacetime, I would agree with you, but many of us are a bit squeamish about electing someone whose experience is limited to organizing free housing protests in Chicago, as C in C during a time of war........

YMMV

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Re: Just a reminder.
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2010, 06:50:06 PM »
Quote from: TVDOC on January 18, 2010, 03:21:16 PM
During peacetime, I would agree with you, but many of us are a bit squeamish about electing someone whose experience is limited to organizing free housing protests in Chicago, as C in C during a time of war........

YMMV

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Re: Just a reminder.
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2010, 07:41:48 AM »
Quote from: TVDOC on January 18, 2010, 03:21:16 PM
During peacetime, I would agree with you, but many of us are a bit squeamish about electing someone whose experience is limited to organizing free housing protests in Chicago, as C in C during a time of war........

YMMV

doc

I think it depends on the person who is elected.

My other half never served either....he blew out his knee the first time at 15 and the second at 19....he may have gone to VietNam...but his family then his company made parts for the DoD.

He thinks the whole mid-east should be "carpet bombed, black topped and a Walmart put up"....

My son was in the Navy....his opinion is similar....I won't post it as I don't say/print some of those words .... :uhsure:

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Re: Just a reminder.
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2010, 09:55:12 AM »
Quote from: debk on January 19, 2010, 07:41:48 AM
I think it depends on the person who is elected.


Agreed.

And when you consider how PC the military has become - and that it will get much worse - I have to start to wonder if having that experience will really be a benefit... or a hinderence.
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Re: Just a reminder.
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2010, 12:19:35 PM »
Jimmy Carter's military experience is why I voted for him way back in 1976. Did I ever regret that. That said, if there is a strong leader elected as President and they're intelligent enough to surround themselves by the best, then everything should be OK. (I don't consider Community Organizers as "strong leaders") I will admit that I think that Rumsfeld failed Bush immensely.
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