Hardball 10-18-2006:College Republicans Lack Of Integrity

[4bucksagallon]

Run time: 03:46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnLoNWtablY   Posted on YouTube: October 19, 2006 By YouTube Member: MRDTALK Views on YouTube: 5806   Posted on DU: October 31, 2006 By DU Member: 4bucksagallon Views on DU: 709

 
I posted this in veterans group the other day but with this new forum, I think it belongs here also. Watch the chickenhawks sit back down when asked if they are going to participate.

[RangerOne]

1. They're just emulating our dear leader.

[pnorman]

2. "Military service isn't for our son," she told Rivera. "It isn't for our kind of people."

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Unfortunately, there has been no definitive study on this subject. But it appears that the affluent are not encouraging their children and peers to join the war effort on the battlefield.

The writer of the Post-Gazette article, Jack Kelly, explored this question in his story that ran on Aug. 11. Kelly wrote of a Marine recruiter, Staff Sgt. Jason Rivera, who went to an affluent suburb outside of Pittsburgh to follow up with a young man who had expressed interest in enlisting. He pulled up to a house with American flags displayed in the yard. The mother came to the door in an American flag T-shirt and openly declared her support for the troops.

But she made it clear that her support only went so far.

"Military service isn't for our son," she told Rivera. "It isn't for our kind of people."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/19/AR2005081900815.html

pnorman

[The Wielding Truth]

3. Privileged Chicken hawks! Glory no guts!

[UrbScotty]

4. Around 2:30? Yep (nt)

[lumpy]

5. The 'let someone else do the fighting' crowd

of young punks for war if they don't have to participate. I noticed several in the crowd didn't stand up for war, tho'.

[Cocoa]

6. McCain tells Tweety "you're bias is showing"

where's the bias?

It's a fact that if you support the war you are supporting something that is going to get troops killed, and it's a fact that not everyone who supports the war is one of those troops.

That's not bias, it's fact.

What to make of that fact is an important question, and you can be biased in how you answer it. But to simply point the fact out is not biased, it's an important thing to do and Tweety did it in a clever way.

[d_b]

7. "uh..I don't think we need a draft

cuz our asses would be out of a fucking job, uhhh"