When Will The Left Flip Flop Again On Military Service?

So here we are in another Presidential election year, and yet again we are asked to choose between a candidate with no background of military service and one with military service. In 2004 John Kerry ran on his military service. He saluted the audience during his nomination acceptance speech at the Democrat national convention. He spoke of his band of swiftboat brothers, and both he and his surrogates lambasted President Bush for only having served this country as a lowly member of the Texas Air National Guard. They even tried to start a phony scandal over Bush not having completed that service.
To put it simply, military service was key to the Democrat strategy in the 2004 election. Which was a change from when Bob Dole, a decorated combat veteran, ran against Bill Clinton, a draft dodger, in 1996. During that election we were told that military service isn’t important for a President. But now that Barack Obama is the Democrat candidate – a man who hasn’t completed a single term in the Senate let alone a tour of duty in the military – when will the Democrats get around to telling us that military service suddenly doesn’t matter again?
Soon, I’d imagine, which would leave us with this summary of Democrat positions on military service:
1996: Military service doesn’t matter.
2004: Military service matters.
2008: Military service doesn’t matter.

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  • http://Array Buzz

    Bill Clinton, a draft dodger

    That seems to ring a bell, hmmm let me think. Oh yea your Emperor Cheney, that’s right. I think he was building a Death Star or something like that.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Conservative position on John McCain:

    2007 – Hate him.
    2008 – Love him.

    Look! dannyboy’s half right, again! Here’s the rest of the story!

    Conservative position on John McCain:

    2007 – Hate him.
    2008 – Love him more than Obama.

  • thetodd

    Soon, I’d imagine, which would leave us with this summary of Democrat positions on military service:

    1996: Military service doesn’t matter.

    2004: Military service matters.

    2008: Military service doesn’t matter.

    Then wouldn’t this be a summary of Republican positions on military service:

    1996: Military service matters.

    2004: Military service doesn’t matter.

    2008: Military service matters.

    ?

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    But now that Barack Obama is the Democrat candidate – a man who hasn’t completed a single term in the Senate let alone a tour of duty in the military – when will the Democrats get around to telling us that military service suddenly doesn’t matter again?

    First off Obama probably couldn’t pass the back ground test to get into the military based on the fact that he is a friend of a domestic terrorist. Second the guy has no clue when it comes to the military, other than retrograds adn surrender.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    Gents,

    You are correct to point out that Leftists’ ethics are completely malleable and can weathervane on a dime. They are argued vociferously, regardless of their merits and no matter how diametrically opposed they may be to previous positions.

    Ex. Screaming for Bob Packwood or Justice Thomas’s blood for supposed sexual harassment vis-a-vis substantial allegations of Clinton’s rape of Juanita Broadderick, assaults on Katherine Willey, Paula Jones and Oral Office Affair with daughter-aged employee Monica Lewinsky… it’s Move On dot Org.

    Situational ethics — not fixed principles, big time.

  • dannyboy

    Conservative position on John McCain:

    2007 – Hate him.
    2008 – Love him.

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