"I don't know what @realDonaldTrump said, but I'm sure he didn't call me a loser. I didn't hear him call me a loser, so this has got to stop. Stop using my image." pic.twitter.com/u8jpKKGOld
— Wojciech Pawelczyk (@WojPawelczyk) September 7, 2020
At first glance the Democrat attack on Trump for alleged disparaging of the military is a head scratcher. The Democrats have made disparaging our military a political industry over the past half century, so this line of attack does little to stir them up. Republicans aren’t going to believe the allegations. There may be a much more sinister reason than cheap politics for doing this as Paul Mirengoff at Powerline speculates:
The lead story in today’s Washington Post is called (in the paper edition) “Trump has history of disparaging military.” If you read the story — and I’m not recommending that you do — you won’t find much alleged disparagement.
For example, Trump didn’t disparage the military when he said he was lucky to get a high number in the lottery that determined who would be drafted during the Vietnam War era. Most of us whose birthday coincided with a high number felt that way. We weren’t disparaging the military or service therein, we just didn’t want to fight in Vietnam.
I don’t know what number Joe Biden drew, but if he wanted to fight in Vietnam, he would have volunteered for service. He didn’t. Indeed, he claims he got into politics because of his opposition to the war. (Does anyone doubt that Biden would have found his way into politics, war or no war?)
As I discussed yesterday, in attacking President Trump for his alleged view of military service, the Democrats, via the mainstream media, have resorted to their 2004 playbook. Then, they pushed unsupported claims about George W. Bush’s military service. Now, they push claims about Trump’s views that are implausible, lack credible support, or don’t really show disparagement.
But there’s more going on with this line of attack in 2020 than there was 16 years ago. Back then, the Democrats and the MSM were just hunting military votes. This time, I think they are hunting more direct military support.
I think they believe that military intervention might determine who serves as president. The charitable version is that they fear a defeated Trump won’t leave the White House, thus requiring military action to remove him. Another version is that Democrats don’t intend to accept a Trump victory in a close election, and will want the military to help it oust a victorious Trump. (A variation on both versions is that there won’t be a clear winner.)
Go here to read the rest. It is astonishing how frequently the Democrats long for a Seven Days in May military coup scenario. No one reads much history these days. Once the military gets into the business of making and unmaking Presidents, we can say farewell to our Republic and hello to Civil War II.
There is certainly a possibility of military involvement to assure the proper counting of ballots but I see no possibility of a military takeover. If they did, why does anyone suppose they would favor the current Democrat leaders?
The left owns us. They make a silly little accusation and at this key time, we spend all our efforts trying to prove whether or not Trump is a good guy or a bad guy, when it ought well be spent exposing all their evil and their plans to do us in as a nation.
Don
After doing a quick on line search for Joe Biden’s military record the first notation is below this post. According to this article Joe Biden received numerous education deferments. After graduating this athletic football player and lifeguard was classified as unfit for service because of teenage asthma.
Our nation should be calling for the release of Joe Biden’s medical records to see the extent of the lung disease that disqualified him from military service.
In addition to failing to disclose records that are similar to what Joe Biden condemns Donald Trump for; Joe Biden has other actions that he should be expected to answer for. There is a senate record of voting for numerous wars. He should also be expected to answer accusations that he opposed killing The 911 mastermind, what his advice was about bombing Libya and Protecting the embassy in Benghazi. After all he likes to tell how he was Obama’s most trusted advisor for foreign and military issues.
https://www.insidesources.com/joe-bidens-draft-record-looks-a-lot-like-donald-trumps-do-democrats-care-2/
Why the military might favor the Democrats
Evil is as evil does. Is the mushy middle awake yet to the threat the Democrats pose? If not now, when?
According to this article Joe Biden received numerous education deferments. After graduating this athletic football player and lifeguard was classified as unfit for service because of teenage asthma.
No, he’d have received two which were renewed year after year. One would have been for his time as an undergraduate (1961-65) and one for his time in law school (1965-68). They didn’t grant deferments for post-baccalaureate study after 1967. I’m going to wager he applied for a I-Y deferment because he was vulnerable to being conscripted after he completed law school. The practice at the time (if I’m not mistaken) was to rank-order those who hadn’t served by age and conscript in that order, provided the subject was not exempt for some over-riding reason (medical disqualification, dependent children, &c). Biden was 25 years, 7 months old at such time as his student deferment ran out. He aged out of eligibility (per rules then in effect) in November of 1968.
Over the last fifty years, there have been two actual draft dodgers among presidential aspirants: Bill Clinton, who conned officials into allowing him to shirk his ROTC service obligations; and Bernie Sanders, who (after having lost his graduate school deferment) hired a lawyer to press a bogus claim for conscientious objector status; the lawyer won so many continuances that Sanders aged out of eligibility before his draft board ever decided the question.
Aside from those two rogues that, just about every consequential presidential candidate of the last 50 years has had a service record within the limits of the law and common practice, but on a broad spectrum of value. (The records of Bill Bradley and Alan Keyes remain a puzzle). Trump, Biden, and Howard Dean are at the low end of the spectrum; John McCain, Wesley Clark, Bob Dole, Bob Kerrey, and George McGovern are at the high end.