2004 Democratic Ticket

Senator John F. Kerry
Lt., U.S. Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V, 3
Purple Hearts.

Senator John Edwards
No military service.



Clinton's Foreign Policy team

Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State
No military service.

Strobe Talbott, Deputy Secretary of State
No military service.

William Cohen, Secretary of Defense
No military service.

John Hamre, Deputy Secretary of Defense
No military service.

George Tenet, CIA Director
No military service.

Sandy Berger, National Security Advisor
No military service.



Prominent Democrats

Former President Bill Clinton
No military service.

Former President Jimmy Carter
U.S. Navy, Naval Academy graduate, submarine officer, 7 years active
duty.

Former Vice President Al Gore
U.S. Army journalist, Vietnam.

Former Vice President Walter Mondale
U.S. Army, 1951-1953.

Wesley Clark, presidential candidate
U.S. Army, 1966-2000, West Point, Vietnam, Purple Heart, Silver Star.
Retired 4-star general.

Hilary Rodham Clinton, Senator (D-NY)
No military service.

Richard Gephardt, Congressman (D-MO)
Missouri Air National Guard, 1965-71.

Tom Daschle, Senate Minority Leader
1st Lt., U.S. Air Force, Strategic Air Command, 1969-72.

Ted Kennedy, Senator D-MA)
U.S. Army, 1951-1953.

Tom Harkin, Senator (D-IA)
Lt., U.S. Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74.

Fritz Hollings, Senator (D-SC)
U.S. Army officer, World War II, Bronze Star, 7 campaign ribbons.

Charles Rangel, Congressman
Staff Sgt., U.S. Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea.

Max Cleland, Former senator
U.S. Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze Star, Vietnam.

Gray Davis, Former Calif. governor
U.S. Army, Captain, Vietnam; Bronze Star.

Chuck Robb, Senator (D-VA)
U.S. Marine Corps, 1961-70, Vietnam.

Bob Kerrey, Former senator
LTJG, U.S. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam.

George McGovern
U.S. Army Air Corps, WWII, Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross.



Prominent Independents

Ralph Nader, Consumer advocate
U.S. Army.

Jesse Ventura, Former governor, actor
U.S. Navy, SEAL Team.



Journalists & Pundits
(Nonpartisan or left of center)

Wolf Bilzter, CNN News anchor
No military service.

Tom Brokaw, NBC News anchor
No military service.

Alan Colmes, Hannity & Colmes host
No military service.

Al Franken, Political satirist
No military service.

Thomas Friedman, NY Times columnist
No military service.

Jim Lehrer, PBS News Hour anchor
U.S. Marine Corps, Infantry officer.

Bill Maher, HBO, political satirist
No military service.

Chris Matthews, Hardball host
No military service.

Michael Moore, Political satirist, filmmaker
No military service.

Dan Rather, CBS News Anchor
U.S. Army Reserve. (He later tried the USMC but did not complete boot
camp.)

Tim Russert, Meet the Press host
No military service.

Jon Stewart, Daily Show host
No military service.

George Stephanopoulos, ABC This Week host
No military service.

Bloggers (liberal)

Joshua Marshall, Talking Points Memo
No military service.

Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, Daily Kos
U.S. Army, 1989-92, Artillery.

2004 Republican Ticket

President George W. Bush
Pilot, Texas Air National Guard, 1968-1973.

Vice President Richard Cheney
No military service.



Bush's Foreign Policy team

Colin Powell, Secretary of State
US Army, 35-year career, Vietnam, rose to the rank of 4-star general.

Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State
U.S. Navy, Naval Academy, 3 combat tours in Vietnam.

Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
U.S. Navy, 1954-57, pilot, flight instructor.

Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense
No military service.

George Tenet, CIA Director
No military service.

Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor
No military service.



Prominent Republicans

Former President Gerald Ford
U.S. Navy, WWII, Lieutenant Commander.

Former President George H. W. Bush
U.S. Navy, pilot, WWII. Shot down by the Japanese.

Former Vice President Dan Quayle
U.S. Army, Indiana National Guard.

Tom Ridge, Director Homeland Security
U.S. Army, Vietnam, Bronze Star for Valor.

John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General
No military service.

John McCain, Senator (R-AZ)
U.S. Navy, Naval Academy, Pilot, Vietnam POW, Silver Star, Bronze
Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.

Jon Kyl, Senator (R-AZ)
No military service.

Chuck Hagel, Senator (R-NE)
U.S. Army, two Purple Hearts, Bronze Star, Vietnam.

Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House
No military service.

Tom Delay, House Majority Leader
No military service.

Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader
No military service.

Rick Santorum, Senator (R-PA)
No military service.

Lindsey Graham, Senator (R-SC)
U.S. Army lawyer, National Guard.

Jeb Bush, Florida governor
No military service.

Bob Dole, Former senator
U.S. Army, WWII, Italy campaigns, two Purple Hearts, Bronze Star
Medal.

Rudy Giuliani, Former NYC mayor
No military service.

Michael Bloomberg, Mayor New York City
No military service.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor Calif.
1-year service with the Austrian Army (main vocation was
bodybuilding).



Journalists & Pundits
(Nonpartisan or right of center)

David Brooks, NY Times columnist
No military service.

William F. Buckley, National Review
U.S. Army, WWII (and CIA in 1946).

Pat Buchanan, MSNBC commentator
No military service.

Ann Coulter, writer & commentator
No military service.

Lou Dobbs, CNN News anchor
No military service.

Paul Gigot, Wall Street Journal editor
No military service.

Sean Hannity, Hannity & Colmes host
No military service.

Brit Hume, Fox News anchor
No military service.

Rush Limbaugh, Radio talk show host
No military service.

Bill O'Reilly, O'Reilly Factor host
No military service.

Michael Savage, Radio talk show host
No military service.

William Safire, NY Times columnist
U.S. Army journalist.

George Will, Washington Post columnist
No military service.



Bloggers (conservative)

Glen Reynolds, Instapundit
No military service.

Andrew Sullivan, Daily Dish
No military service. (He's a Brit)



Bloggers (gossip)

Ana Marie Cox, Wonkette
U.S. Army, 2nd Lt., Delta Force, Afghanistan.

(And if you believe that, we've got some nice desert property we'd
like to sell you. We are, of course, kidding. Ms. Cox never served.)