Obama avoided Vietnam Draft...

[Fearless]

[BumRushDaShow]

1. !!!

[Old and In the Way]

2. Now that's funny. What was Mitt's reason?

Oh yeah, "missionary work"....right.

[BlueToTheBone]

5. Cause he likes to be on top. n/t

[rocktivity]

20. DUzy candidate!

rocktivity

[lunatica]

34. LOL!

I can't say anything more without offending the Self Appointed Curse Police Patrolling the DU Intertubes today.

But a star for you!

[southernyankeebelle]

10. Missionary work in some french girl's home bedroom am sure.

[toddwv]

14. He REALLY wanted to go but

the gov't forced 4 deferments on him.

"I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam."

- Mitt Romney, Boston Globe, 6/24/07

"I was not planning on signing up for the military. It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam."

- Mitt Romney, Boston Herald, 5/2/94

[clang1]

25. re: He REALLY wanted to go but

F'ing POS. n/t

[xxqqqzme]

35. He LONGED

to be there representing our country - representing? Are you kidding me?

When I think of the kids in my HS graduating class killed, ruined or poisoned by Agent Orange......I have no words......

[blm]

19. There were Catholic nuns in France who needed to be converted to Mormonism

and Mitt was the one man brave enough to do it.

[66 dmhlt]

30. What would you expect from a man who, when asked by his country for his service, said ...

“No, send somebody else!”

And then took off for the mansions of Paris and the hillsides of France?

[Pat Riot]

32. The wine country of Bordeaux, actually...nt

[jillan]

3. I got into an argument with a rightie on another site over this - hahaha.

[rurallib]

8. did they think Obama should have signed up?

or was it that he wasn't an American citizen?

[jmowreader]

26. I hope they didn't want him to sign up

The Army got rid of its drummer boys long, long ago, and that's about all an 8-year-old could have done.

[Curmudgeoness]

4. How do we reason with people who throw this BS out there????

It is obvious that there is no rational thought in their heads.

[randome]

6. We could take the opposite tack from the 'Obama equals Chuck Norris' posts.

Obama is the one who convinced Hitler his paintings were no good!
Obama IS the drone!
Obama invented Einstein!

Just, you know, to give the Birthers some exercise.

[neeksgeek]

7. The real question is ...

How did Obama avoid the draft during the Persian Gulf War??? Inquiring minds want to know!

Just in case it's not obvious ...

[hrmjustin]

9. Lmao!!!!

rofl: :

[Tarheel_Dem]

11. LOL!!

[Auggie]

12. He was a cute kid at 8

[TheDebbieDee]

15. ALL of his kid pictures are cute....he was just a CUTE kid!

[TNLib]

13. I think Obama avoided the draft during Granada

[mwooldri]

18. Granads's what?

To me Granada is a region in Spain and a TV station in the northwest of England.

Though IMO should throw Romney to Granada - shove him in Hell's Kitchen or give him a Kitchen Nightmare or two.

[clang1]

27. re: Granads's what?

Heh heh yeah that little place called Grenada in the carib.

[progressoid]

16. That's the same deferment I got.

[Lars77]

17. Kenya fought the Shifta War against Somalia at that time, so he was busy!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifta_War

[freshwest]

22. Sounds close to the war Nugent was fighting in his pants.

[freshwest]

21. At least he wasn't making poo in his pants like Ted. Shows the maturity level right there. Still,

OBAMA WUZ 18 AN NOT 8 AS HIS BIRF CERTIFICATE WUZ WRITTEN IN FORIEGN LANGUAGE, U KNOE!!!

Oh my freaking gawd, I don't think I can take it anymore...

[47of74]

23. I first saw this line and I was getting set to do battle.

Then I saw the actual message!

Good one!

[libodem]

38. I know

I was the last one to click cuz I thought it was some kind of slam.

BTW, cute kid picture. Reminds me of my brother Bob just a little. I'm wishing for some diversity genes on the family tree. I'd be proud.

[Honeycombe8]

24. Too funny!!!!! That Colbert.... nt

[donheld]

28. He's got some nerve.

[GTurck]

29. Tee Hee...

[valerief]

31. I heard Obama avoided the draft by putting on a sweater. nt

[Arkana]

33. I'm surprised the right hasn't tried to use that against him anyway.

He was barely a teenager when Nixon left office and in single digits when the draft stopped.

[bb7132]

36. Draft Avoidance

He had other things to do, like play in the sandbox.

[kenfrequed]

37. What is interesting...

Is that this year it won't even be discussed.

Though there might be some strange quixotic angle played where the right pretends that Romney was somehow wise for having known that Vietnam was bad for him and that President Obama was too young to recall how bad it was.

Other than that they have nothing to gain.