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19 Responses to “Should a “silver spoon elitist” who dodged combat in Vietnam be allowed to speak at war memorials today?”

1. Cuddle Bug Says:
   October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

   Absolutely NOT. But then again how can former presidents who dodged combat and have no morals and are a bunch of liberal pansies run this country.
   What a sad state of affairs this country is in.
   Our Men and Women are dying and for what??? So idiots can go and burn our flag, and the list goes on and on.
   People out there should Wise up. Our streets are filled with guns and drugs. Illegals are getting everything for nothing and the rest of us poor slobs are paying our taxes.

2. chappye7 Says:
   October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

   You must be talking about Slick Willy and the answer is no.

3. honesty Says:
   October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

   who are we talking about Clinton or Gore

4. x2000 Says:
   October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

   No.

   Are you talking about someone specifically?

5. spareo1 Says:
   October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

   No in fact they should be seriously investigated.

6. Ivan S Says:
   October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

   no

7. snickers Says:
   October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

   Hummmm NO!

8. Tom T Says:
   October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

   Bill Clinton spoke at a war memorial today? Didn’t know that. Is there no depth that man won’t sink to for attention?

9. buttercup Says:
   October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

   You need to be more specific. If you are referring to
   George Bush, yes he should be allowed to speak as he
   is the President of the United States and the Commander
   in Chief of the military. By the way, he did serve his
   country, both as Governor and President, and flew an
   airplane in the military.

10. mudmarine Says:
    October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

    Keep Clinton away from our honored dead,he doesn’t deserve the priveledge.

11. darrell m Says:
    October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

    kind of hard to answer your question based on such vague criteria.

12. rockandroll58-79 Says:
    October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

    PRESIDENT George W. Bush is required as president of the greatest country on earth to always speak at war memorials and he DID NOT dodged the combat in Vietnam or the draft like clinton did!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

13. Jason K Says:
    October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

    i take it you mean bush. bush has a good reasion for not going in to the draft.

    like wize any thing bad said about kerrys war past was BS if what was said went aginst millitary records.

14. GoGo Girls Says:
    October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

    I assume you are speaking of our President. How is it dodging when your unit does not deploy? Are you saying everyone in his unit were combat dodgers? He has more rights than most. He is also their commander in Chief. He also has the honorable discharge on his DD214 to back it up. Unless you can prove some of your allegations you are just passing along a lie.

15. justme Says:
    October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

    I truly believe one cannot know another unless he has walked in his moccasins. The Bible tells us the husbandman must first be partaker of the fruit.
    The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops (2 Timothy 2.6)
    Jesus suffered as one of us and he knew what it felt like to be like us and this is how he is able now to intercede for us.
    I think only people who have "been there" are acutally qualified to speak for one who is there and was there.
    But we live in a world that thinks it knows better than Jesus so what can we expect?

16. Joachin Murrieta Says:
    October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

    If you mean GW Bush, yes…he at least has more credibility than his draft-dodging philandering predecessor Bill Clinton….the proof is out there…the poster is obvious a BC apologist…’nuf said folks. Turn out the lights

17. Stone K Says:
    October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

    ummm Clinton ADMITTED he went to Canada… do you need more proof than that?

    How do you dodge a draft if you are already enlisted?

    you seem to know what Silver spoon means, but you seem to fail to grasp the concept of "Enlisted".

    have you ever thought about practicing the idea of understanding and compassion? you know the things the left claims to have? I mean all I seem to be detecting is hate and anger… wait… isn’t that what you would claim the Right has?

    Hmmm are you really a closet republican?

    Add on: correction he fled to Oxford to avoid the draft. Canada just wanted him to help support the draft dodger monument. My mistake.

18. oda315 Says:
    October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

    I think it is acceptable for a politician who did not serve in Vietnam to speak at a war memorial today. After all, it is a politician’s job to make the observance meaningful since they are the ones who send us soldiers off to war. There are complicated reasons behind many who did not serve in Vietnam. As a former soldier, both enlisted man and officer, I have never held the view that somebody who did not serve in Vietnam (or did not serve at all) disqualified that person from being a policitician or even a Commander-in-Chief.

    Let’s face it, Vietnam was an unpopular war. Who could blame that generation for not wanting to go? I do not. There are many in both parties who served and who did not. This does not disqualify them from having empathy for soldiers and for their deaths.

    I think your choice of phrase smacks of a political ideology that most soldiers are trained to eschew. Thus, it makes we wonder who are you to ask this question? Politicians, just like soldiers, are made of all stripes. We cannot judge their humanity by a choice they made 40 years ago.

19. machine_head_327 Says:
    October 29th, 2009 at 12:24 am

    Was Bill Clinton out giving speeches AGAIN!

    Oh, and BTW, the proof of old Billy boy was in the pudding…If you don’t call smoking dope in England, "draft dodging" I don’t know what is!