John Kerry Belittles U.S. Troops?
POSTED BY: Skywalken
UPDATED: Monday, November 6, 2006 04:25
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originally posted by auraptor:
LOL
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Soup
AURaptor, you're actually citing Hillary Clinton approvingly?
lol. Soup: auraptor doesn't work for the GOP, he works for the evil thing. The evil thing supports hillary. or is hillary. I'm not sure which.
Anyway, bush-is-clinton includes hillary, so this logically follows:
Hillary '08
Re-re-elect George W. Bush
No votes necessary, void where prohibited
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An exchange I had with a friend of mine (who has an MBA) went like this:
Chris: Bush is a moron
Me: He has an MBA, there must be something there
Chris: A trained monkey could get an MBA
Me: Sure, it's not that difficult a degree, but he can't be a total numbskull.
Chris: I'm being literal, not metaphorical. An actual trained monkey could get an actual MBA
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!!!
*choke*Chrisisall(not with the MBA)
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!!!
*choke*Chrisisall(not with the MBA)
The one with the evil double-post.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:If my daddy was rich, I coulda bought those too, what's your point?
Originally posted by AURaptor:
1968 - He earns a B.A. in History from Yale Universty
1974 - He enters Harvard Business School, where he earns a MBA.
Enquiring Chrisisall
So, let me get this straight. You're saying that bothHarvard and Yale, two of the oldest, most expensive, and elite universities in the USA are so strapped for cash that they'd blindly admit the son of a wealthy politician, and then allow him to exit their campi with diplomas ? Even an elite MBA program ?
So, I guess anyone who attends those schools is guaranteed a diploma , as long as their daddy pays for it all.
Sorta exactly the same as John Kerry, huh?
Hmmm...
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Quote:The schools are not 'strapped for cash', they do, however, remain highly respectful of those who make donations and/or are friends of the institutions of higher learning, especially from positions of influence.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
So, let me get this straight. You're saying that bothHarvard and Yale, two of the oldest, most expensive, and elite universities in the USA are so strapped for cash that they'd blindly admit the son of a wealthy politician, and then allow him to exit their campi with diplomas ? Even an elite MBA program ?
Like you don't know this Chrisisall
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I didn't approvingly or disapprovingly offer up Hillary Clinton's quote. It was merely a statement of fact.
Seems some are so caught off guard by what she said, they're confused by the relevence of her comment. A high ranking Left wing Senator has called Kerry on his own words. Not Rush Limbaugh, not Neal Boortz, not Sean Hannity, but Hillary Clinton.
Vast Right-wing Raptor
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:The schools are not 'strapped for cash', they do, however, remain highly respectful of those who make donations and/or are friends of the institutions of higher learning, especially from positions of influence.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
So, let me get this straight. You're saying that bothHarvard and Yale, two of the oldest, most expensive, and elite universities in the USA are so strapped for cash that they'd blindly admit the son of a wealthy politician, and then allow him to exit their campi with diplomas ? Even an elite MBA program ?
Like you don't know this Chrisisall
So, is it only sons of GOP politicians, and never the case with Democrats ? Wouldn't JFKerry be the recipient of the same treatment as GW Bush ? If so, then Kerry's attempted jab at W's intelligence seems to encompass himself into the same catagory as W.
So, where's the joke again?
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Just last week, the Heritage Foundation reported the following...
The current findings show that the demographic characteristics of volunteers have continued to show signs of higher, not lower, quality. Quality is a difficult concept to apply to soldiers, or to human beings in any context, and it should be understood here in context. Regardless of the standards used to screen applicants, the average quality of the people accepted into any organization can be assessed only by using measurable criteria, which surely fail to account for intangible characteristics. In the military, it is especially questionable to claim that measurable characteristics accurately reflect what really matters: courage, honor, integrity, loyalty, and leadership.
Those who have been so quick to suggest that today’s wartime recruits represent lesser quality, lower standards, or lower class should be expected make an airtight case. Instead, they have cited selective evidence, which is balanced by a much clearer set of evidence showing improving troop quality.
Indeed, in many criteria, each year shows advancement, not decline, in measurable qualities of new enlistees. For example, it is commonly claimed that the military relies on recruits from poorer neighborhoods because the wealthy will not risk death in war. This claim has been advanced without any rigorous evidence. Our review of Pentagon enlistee data shows that the only group that is lowering its participation in the military is the poor. The percentage of recruits from the poorest American neighborhoods (with one-fifth of the U.S. population) declined from 18 percent in 1999 to 14.6 percent in 2003, 14.1 percent in 2004, and 13.7 percent in 2005.
This report updates the previous Heritage Foundation report, with data on all U.S. recruits during 2004 and 2005. We introduce the term “wartime recruits” to identify volunteer enlistees in all branches during 2003, 2004, and 2005. Like the previous report,[3] the analysis considers the following characteristics:
Household income,
Level of education,
Race/ethnicity, and
Regional/rural origin.
In summary, the additional years of recruit data (2004–2005) support the previous finding that U.S. military recruits are more similar than dissimilar to the American youth population. The slight differences are that wartime U.S. military enlistees are better educated, wealthier, and more rural on average than their civilian peers.
Recruits have a higher percentage of high school graduates and representation from Southern and rural areas. No evidence indicates exploitation of racial minorities (either by race or by race-weighted ZIP code areas). Finally, the distribution of household income of recruits is noticeably higher than that of the entire youth population.
Demographic evidence discredits the argument that a draft is necessary to enforce representation from racial and socioeconomic groups. Additionally, three of the four branches of the armed forces met their recruiting goals in fiscal year 2005, and Army reenlistments are the highest in the past five years. A draft is not necessary to increase the size of the active-duty forces. Our analysis using Pentagon data on wartime volunteers effectively shatters the case for reinstating the draft.
To see the full (much lengthier) report: http://www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/cda06-09.cfm
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Cartoon,
Thanks for the info. I suspect this can be concluded logically by any thinking human. After all, there are educational requirements, and rigorous physicial and pysch tests to become a soldier. There are no such requirements to become a random citizen, or a politician. Kerry is an idiot.
otoh, I do feel that this story was brought into heavy focus primarily not as an election year stunt, but to hide a story that everyone in govt. wanted to hide. It was the GOP who pushed for surveillance drones in the combat zone, and it was the democrats who pushed to arm those drones. Without these not so brilliant military decisions being made by politicians back in washington, this wouldn't have happened.
So here it is again, the real top story of the day which the Kerrygate story buried:
Robot attacks school, kills 83
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1061375
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