the real service of those who assigned to tend W and the rest of those allowed to play and build their resumes in the National Guard makes me angry. Because I dropped out of high school to work full time long before the internet age, I lost track of those in high school with me who honorably served, but I have also always been angry for them.
I thought enough conservatives would be offended by that, including his just going awol, and much else that violated their vaunted values, that he wouldn't be elected. Values were dumped. We have yet to find out how low they'll sink to avoid losing all that is good to the devil Democrats. Mass delusion.
My commitment to equality seems to be...gut deep, party irrelevant. In grade school already I disliked the "royal family" and "Camelot" fantasies about the Kennedys. (Strangely, these days one of my young step relatives is a Kennedy, not that it does her any good. So...good, sort of? Truthfully, I wish it did. 
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Btw, cannon fodder is actually a very old term. Before cannons there were undoubtedly others. The crossbow was banned a thousand or so years ago. No doubt for a number of reasons, but one supposedly was that it was too equalizing, allowing people of low birth to take down the Ws of those days, which I suspect was very likely true. Don't you love at least knowing MOOCs are available? Though as a lover of historic fiction I knew the cannon fodder and crossbow things before the one I took on war.
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