Cowards queue for candidacy
I was disturbed by reading a Washington Post article this morning about the military background of the major presidential candidates--there is none. Except for John McCain, not a single leading candidate for President has served in the military. The Post charitably gives George Bush credit for his frat boy flying days in the National Guard--I do not.
As a veteran, I am appalled. I don't think that military service is an absolute litmus test for political office, but come on, none of them? War mongerers like Fred Thompson and Romney have not served and as the Post also points out, none of Romney's 5 sons have deigned to be in the military either. Although Romney disengeniously suggests that their helping him run for office is equivalent.
Really.
I'll give Hillary Clinton a pass on this because there weren't many women in the military when she could have gotten involved, but the hell with the rest of them.
As the Iraqi war rages on, it becomes clearer that war is something that you send someone else's kids to. The problem here is gradual rise of the professional politician class in America where public service means being the head piglet sucking at society's teat. What happened to giving back to society?
Posted on August 24, 2007
