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Johonny

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3. IDK

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 11:03 AM

Feb 2012

seems like war records have hurt candidates not helped them recently. Bush vs. Clinton. Then Clinton vs. Dole. Then Bush vs. Gore. Then Bush vs. Kerry. Finally Obama vs. McCain. If the media loves a war record then the candidate with the weak war record wouldn't have such an easy time of late. The problem is so few Americans (relative) serve these days that the voting public doesn't hold it against a candidate. Plus it is not like the war have exactly been popular. Even gulf war service doesn't get the props from the media. You had Palin and Biden sending kids to fight and Romney sending his kids to safety and the voting public just doesn't seem to care.

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If Romney was a Democrat, god forbid, he would be attacked as a draft dodger.... [View all] WCGreen Feb 2012 OP

Romney's Vietnam-era 'mission' work was in a French castle with servants at his beck and call... blm Feb 2012 #1

Being a draft dodger isn't bad pinboy3niner Feb 2012 #2

Well Romney had it both ways... WCGreen Feb 2012 #7

IDK Johonny Feb 2012 #3

Add Nixon vs. McGovern to your list Downwinder Feb 2012 #4

Also, many people of voting age simply were not alive during Vietnam. Jennicut Feb 2012 #5

Most people my age think that vietnam was a mistake and I graduated high school in 1975... WCGreen Feb 2012 #6

I have been attacking him for this, but you have the timing backward Motown_Johnny Feb 2012 #8

It's not just the media with the double standard... CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2012 #9