That Vietnam Service Thing

The press has been reporting accurately that anyone who was a member of the National Guard in the Vietnam Era got there because his daddy had enough influence to get him the slot. Service in the Guard in those days was anything but honorable, to be certain, and Richard Blumenthal should be called out for trying to spin his Guard service into actual Vietnam miles. Funny the national journalism establishment forgot that fact in the nine or so years that The Great Moron George W. Busch was on the national stage. In those days, National Guard service like Blumenthal's was treated as service to the country… if not heroic, at least a recognized form of public service that could not be attacked. Now, the press is noting, rightly, the chickenshit use of National Guard billets to protect the sons of the rich and powerful from the draft. Many a fat cat and pol found a home for his kid in the Guard. George W. Busch, Dan Quayle, Richard Blumenthal, Jeff Sessions and many others managed to avoid service by getting daddy to twist a few arms. There were no National Guard slots for the less-well connected. Most politicians are sociopathic liars. Ron Raygun's publicity people told the fan magazines that he was serving overseas when, in fact, he never left Los Angeles, and Raygun eventually believed he had served in combat. LBJ arranged to get himself a Navy Cross even though he never faced enemy fire. Joe McCarthy lied extravagantly about is war experience, inventing wounds, exaggerating the number of missions he actually flew, and making himself a "tailgunnner" when was in fact an observer. I can't say I can condone Blumenthal's narcissism, but I hate to lose a senate seat to the GOOP over it. Maybe we can forget it if we revisit the list of GOOP cowards who have been leading us in recent years. http://www.nhgazette.com/chickenhawks/