Ho Chi Minh
Jane Fonda
Richard Blumenthal
If you guessed Blumenthal, you're a winner!
Here's a bonus question: Is Blumenthal actually a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars? I don't know the answer, but I sure would like to know. If he is, he got in under false pretenses.
3 comments:
What's the difference between George W. Bush and Jane Fonda?
Jane Fonda went to Vietnam.
(This works on Bill Clinton too. Barack Obama may yet go to Vietnam, but he was about eight years old when the war was going on, and ineligible for the draft. It really makes me feel old to know that for the first time in my life, the President of the United States is younger than I am._
Bush served in the Nat Guard. Whether he had juice to get in or missed meetings is another argument. In that era, many got in to the guard to avoid going to Viet Nam. Pro athletes classical example. Today it's different.
Bush ranks above Clinton because the latter used lies, trickery and deceit to avoid the military altogether.
I have always been careful not to question people like John Kerry about their service in VN because I was in Germany. Kerry ranks above me, for example.
Fair enough about Clinton, and a consistent line of principal regarding Kerry, but you haven't put Bush in a particularly good light. Anyway, Fonda did go to Vietnam, as you graphically highlighted, and Bush didn't. Neither did Cheney, who "had better things to do" than put his own life on the line for a cause he somehow construes to have been of vital importance to his country.
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