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Democrats were against the war in Vietnam and Jimmy Carter gave amnesty to all Vietnam draft dodgers so why?
Are Democrats trying to say that Romney was wrong for not going to Vietnam even though he wasn't drafted?
Joe Biden got 5 deferments during Vietnam and liberals think he is a hero!
15 Answers
- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
Clinton did his best to avoid the draft too.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/dem...
Where was the outrage from Democrats over that?
- Anonymous9 years ago
Democrats have a double standard. They hold everyone else (particularly Republicans and Conservatives) to a much higher standard then they hold themselves. It's a case of do what we say, not what we do.
In fact all the born-again radicals Democrats in 1975 who handed South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia over to the Communists and celebrated their victory were the very SAME "moderate" Democrats who overwhelmingly voted FOR the Vietnam war in 1964. Talk about your double standard.
They are hypocrites who think they can defame Romney for doing exactly what they did and no one will notice their hypocrisy.
Source(s): Vietnam vet (USAF medic 1969/70) history-buff.... - Anonymous9 years ago
Democrats supported the Vietnam War until it became an unwinnable sink hole. Don't you know that Presidents Kennedy and Johnson sustained it for years? Your rewrite of history cannot change facts. You are commiting the fallacy of begging the question.
- Anonymous9 years ago
I don't blame anyone who didn't want to get dropped into that meat grinder. But then don't say you longed to go. Going wasn't that difficult. John Kerry somehow managed it. Romney hung out in France trying to convert people into his cult. I'm sure there were some Vietnamese who could have used saving.
BTW You know who else got 5 deferments? Cheney. It seemed he didn't like war until he was in a position to profit off of it.
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- 9 years ago
Democrats started the vietnam war with Lyndon Johnston and the Republicans ended it with Richard Nixon.
edit: Sorry, I think it was President Ford that the Vietnam war ended, but still a Republican.
- Anonymous9 years ago
Democrats will say or do anything to divert our attention from the damage they have done to our Constitution for nearly 100 years:
Democrat President Wilson (1913-1918) said, “You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.” He may have been the first democrat to appreciate the potential use of multiculturalism (“If it’s white or American, trash it!”) in deconstructing the Constitution, saying, “No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.” Obama put it this way (without using a teleprompter!): "Every nation is exceptional in its own way."
Democrat President Roosevelt (1933-1945) “let it all hang out” in his speech before Congress on January 11, 1944:
“We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights...” which included:
-The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation
-The right of every family to a decent home
-The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health
-The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment.
Democrat President Johnson’s Great Society became the largest redistribution of wealth program in our history. Obama has thrust national healthcare upon us, the hallmark of all socialist and welfare states.
25 years ago none of the above was common knowledge. It is only because of more honest, unbiased reporting on the Internet, talk radio and Fox News (all non-existent 25 years ago!) that today we know that the democrat party has been gradually changing America into a European style welfare state.
-2/4/10 Gallup poll: 61% of liberals have a positive view of socialism.
-6/2/11 Gallup poll: 71% of democrats favor re-distributing wealth.
-Now they have national health care, the foundation of all welfare and socialist states.
- ingsoc1Lv 79 years ago
Well romney got four deferments while protesting in favor of the draft. I guess your cool he thought the draft was good for only those that could not afford college and trips to France.
- Mr. WolfLv 79 years ago
In 2007 Romney said "I longed in many respects to be in Vietnam and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam.” but Selective Service records show he received four draft deferments. They included college deferments and a 31-month stretch as a "minister of religion" in France, a classification for Mormon missionaries.
Romney lied!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You Obama Haters act as if it is OK for Romney to lie to you because you hate Obama.
- BrianneLv 79 years ago
The democrats never look at their own records, like Kerry, standing over there amongst the enemy denouncing this country with GI Jane, and he could of been president. I don't think I'll ever forget this! Clinton is no war hero and Carter, well look what he did. I'm not worried about Romney, they need to realize we aren't worried about this but worried about Obama finishing off this country.
- Anonymous9 years ago
Mitt evaded the draft and then criticized the anti war protesters. Mitt is a coward and a hypocrite.