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Where's your data to back this up? Also, why didn't you put Al said in your title. Should you want to call Mitt's background into question, do it with something besides hearsay.
Look it up. If it is wrong I will admit the mistake.
As I have reported several times previously in reference to this myth: the spitting on Vietnam vets when they returned home has been long ago debunked as a myth ... part of a campaign to discredit anti-war movement protestors at the Chicago convention (myth developed and propagated by GOP sympathetic groups).
I came home from that war and walked down Haight & Ashbury streets in S.F. in uniform during the summer of love and was greeted with hugs, flowers, and joints to smoke by the hippies. I was never once to my recollection ever spat on or even shouted at negatively.
Did ya' see Charles Manson there too? Musta been awesome!
Not true at all. I always admired Senator McCain. He blew it playing to the right with that super idiot palin.
Now that he lost because, in part, you voted against him, it's easy for you to say "Gee, I liked him!"
There is no Republican presidential candidate you will support, so who cares what you think about our candidates? War hero/not war hero; moderate/conservative; male/female -- you won't support them so why in heavens name do we Republicans care what you think about them?
In short, you're hyperpartisan and unreachable, so our candidates don't need to appeal to you.
Now that he lost because, in part, you voted against him, it's easy for you to say "Gee, I liked him!"
There is no Republican presidential candidate you will support, so who cares what you think about our candidates? War hero/not war hero; moderate/conservative; male/female -- you won't support them so why in heavens name do we Republicans care what you think about them?
In short, you're hyperpartisan and unreachable, so our candidates don't need to appeal to you.
"You know, I went to Haight-Ashbury, expecting it to be this brilliant place, and it was just full of horrible, spotty, dropout kids on drugs. It certainly showed me what was really happening in the drug culture. It wasn't what was I thought of all these groovy people having spiritual awakenings and being artistic. It was like the Bowery, it was like alcoholism, it was like any addiction. So, at that point, I stopped taking it, actually, the dreaded Lysergic."
George Harrison on visiting Haight-Ashbury in August of 1967
The 60's were pretty much Peace, Love, Dope anyway. I would have loved to go there, just to see.
Anyone tried to get out of going to Vietnam. Only those who had no alternatives went. I remember the lottery system....and they called the numbers during the nightly news....you had to live during that time...no one can judge him on that....
Those who went can. At least the ones who came back.
Seriously, I was in Viet Nam before the lottery. I really could give a rat's patoot about who got deferred and who didn't. I was too busy trying to keep my ass, and the asses of the others in my platoon alive to give it much of a thought.
Of the last 5 Presidents, only one, George HW Bush, was a combat veteran.
Of the last 5 Presidents, only George Bush Jr (aka W) was a monger for wars. Romney is also a monger for wars. The issue is not whether somebody went to Veitnam or served or hid behind deferments or went to jail or Canada. I don't care as long as they were not war mongers. But don't hide your ass from going to tell everybody else who is not as rich as you are to go. That is THE issue here to me.
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