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Obama: Sure, I wanted to join the military!

I buy this as much as I buy Hillary’s assertion that she wanted to join the Marines.

But hey, we can’t totally reject The One’s assertion outright, since there’s no way to prove he did or didn’t want to sign up.  But considering that he didn’t write a word about it in either of his two Biblical chapters memoirs, color me with the Skeptical crayon.  Check it out:

Mr Obama was asked by George Stephanopoulos of ABC’s “This Week” programme whether he’d ever thought about military service and replied: “You know, I actually did. I had to sign up for Selective Service [a means of conscription in case of war] when I graduated from high school.

“And I was growing up in Hawaii. And I have friends whose parents were in the military. There are a lot of Army, military bases there.

“And I actually always thought of the military as an ennobling and, you know, honourable option. But keep in mind that I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren’t engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it’s not an option that I ever decided to pursue.”

Oh, I see.  Because there just is no need to join the armed forces unless you get to blow people up.  This will no doubt come as quite the surprise to the millions of Americans who have joined the military over the last several decades without such a motivation, right?  Love of country, college tuition assistance, job training?  Nah…bunker busters and human entrails, baby!

Ace has a colorful retort:

Vote for Barack Obama

It is only due to bad timing he didn’t get his chance to kill livestock, cut off ears, ravage villages, blow up bodies, and behave in a fashion reminiscent of Jenjhis Khan.

Heh.

Exit question: If the left uses the brain-dead mindless smear “chickenhawk” to describe people who support our troops who go off to battle (yet these folks haven’t personally enlisted themselves), then what term would these idiots like to come up with for people like Obama who claim to want to go to war to kill people, but then don’t actually enlist to make it happen?  Is it somehow more noble to want to go and kill yet don’t follow through?

September 8, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | Obama, shameful