“This is just one more politician who is willing to risk the lives of our loved ones and celebrate sending them off into a war that we never should have in…”

So says Nancy Lessin, a spokeswoman for Military Families Speak Out, on the day that Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney was honored by the National Guard for extending pay for state workers on active duty. According to this article in the Boston Herald, Romney has been a big supporter of the war in Iraq, but apparently hasn’t thought to ask his own five sons — ages 24 to 35 — to sign up for National Guard duty. Speaking of which, I wonder where the Bush girls are partying today? My guess is that it’s not in Baghdad.

6 Responses to “Politicians Kids and Risk Aversion”

I think that it was inapporiate to involve a politican’s children in the discussion of war. In case you haven’t heard, it’s a voluntary military.

Why are liberals are so insisted that politicans’ children MUST serve in the military if their parents support the war?

I think it was inappropriate for Rush Limbaugh to say the following about Cindy Sheehan and her dead son:

Her story is nothing more than forged documents. There’s nothing about it that’s real, including the mainstream media’s glomming onto it. It’s not real. It’s nothing more than an attempt. It’s the latest effort made by the coordinated left.

How dare he question a simple citizen of the US who had a mission to merely talk to a man who sent her son to die in an illegal, immoral, selective war?

Once again, the liberal mainstream media took Rush’s comments out of context. He explained, if you actually listens to his show, that he was talking about the liberal media’s attempt to use her ordeal to fit their agenda to damage President Bush’s leadership.

First of all, the words “Bush” and “leadership” are mutually exclusive. You are not entitled to put them together in the same sentence. Any president who takes five weeks of vacation while a war is on is not showing any kind of leadership.

Secondly, it’s amazing how it’s OK for the radical, Neo-Con, religious right to take any statement from a Democrat out of context (”I voted for the war, before I voted against it”), but it’s not OK to do it to a right-wing drug addict of a talk show host? How do you take these words out of context: “Her story is nothing more than forged documents.”

I don’t think you can. Once again, you view Rush with rose-colored glasses.

Why do you have to refer to Rush Limbaugh as a drug addict? In case you forget, he’s still recovering from his addiction. I thought you liberals care about drug addicts.

I guess you haven’t listened to his show because, if you had, you would hera Rush putting that statement in context and that he didn’t said that Cindy’s child never exisited.

You mean I would’ve “heard Rush correct what he said to put it in some kind of context,” just like Pat Robertson tried to backtrack and say he didn’t really say we should kill Chavez, even though that’s EXACTLY what he said??

Rush needs to get off the radio before he causes the ouster of all the Republicans in office next election. He’s overplaying his hand, he thinks the whole country is behind him. Notice the building fear and terror in his voice and the voices of his co-horts in hatred — Coulter, Ingraham, Hannity, Savage, Levin… They’re all terrified these days, and in an attempt to get peoples’ attention, they’re resorting to ever more outlandish words and phrases. Trouble is, it’s no longer working, is it Travis…

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