wrote:
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:30:20 -0400, BAR wrote:

http://www.courant.com/news/politics...,2934547.story

I guess you are too young to remember how the draft worked in that
era. If you were enrolled as a full time student, you got that
deferment unless you requested NOT to get it. People also got defrred
for all sorts of other reasons. If you were an only child, I think
that may have been grounds for a deferment. Then there was the lottery
system. Many people got high lottery numbers and were never called.
Some rich and powerful folks could get their kids into the Air Force
reserve, guaranteeing they would never be shipped to Viet Nam. Heck,
some of them didn't even complete THAT alternative service, but were
never prosecuted.

If you are depending on that to be a "problem" for Biden, you are
really out of luck in a very big way. It's a complete non-starter.
Rush Limbaugh bellowing about it as he eats more pills isn't going to
make that into anything.


So what was all of that oral effluent about Chenney?

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:50:33 -0400, BAR wrote:

wrote:
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:30:20 -0400, BAR wrote:

http://www.courant.com/news/politics...,2934547.story

I guess you are too young to remember how the draft worked in that
era. If you were enrolled as a full time student, you got that
deferment unless you requested NOT to get it. People also got defrred
for all sorts of other reasons. If you were an only child, I think
that may have been grounds for a deferment. Then there was the lottery
system. Many people got high lottery numbers and were never called.
Some rich and powerful folks could get their kids into the Air Force
reserve, guaranteeing they would never be shipped to Viet Nam. Heck,
some of them didn't even complete THAT alternative service, but were
never prosecuted.

If you are depending on that to be a "problem" for Biden, you are
really out of luck in a very big way. It's a complete non-starter.
Rush Limbaugh bellowing about it as he eats more pills isn't going to
make that into anything.


So what was all of that oral effluent about Chenney?

Cheney is what is known as a "Chicken Hawk". The reason he gets
slammed for his student deferment is that he was running around
supporting the war. Someone with character and a working sense of
honor would have refused the deferment, joined the service and
VOLUNTEERED to go. Cheney's weak repsonse is that he "had other
priorities at the time". His mouth and his actions were way out of
sync.