Mark Kleiman needs to update his list of wars.
Internal coherence would be nice, too.
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In his haste to frame John McCain's rather brutal response to Barack Obama over the GI Bill -
Oh, let's establish something. I don't approve of the chickenhawk argument, even when it favors my side; I don't think that Senator McCain should have used it, and he shouldn't do it again. In this I am showing internal consistency; unlike, say, Mark Kleiman (more examples here).
- anyway, in Kleiman's haste to frame the narrative in terms away from Obama's incoherence in national security affairs, he has managed to completely overlook that Obama was not, in fact, even remotely too old to serve in Operation Desert Storm. And if the first Gulf War is now such an actual Good War (it seems to have become one once the Republican who started it was safely out of office), by the chickenhawking rule of thumb Kleiman should even now be asking why Obama didn't serve in that conflict, given that the junior Senator from Illinois so obviously supported our fighting it:
I would ask Kleiman why he failed to go after Obama for this lapse in Kleiman's moral judgment, except that his blog doesn't actually allow comments [turns out that he does, but you have to sign up] I don't feel like listening to the rationalization. Mind you, I already know why he went after McCain.
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You can oppose the Farm Bill and be popular for it.
You can oppose the GI Bill and look like Hoover ordering MacArthur to disperse the Bonus Marchers. His original reason for opposing the GI Bill was stupid politics, and he let Obama and Webb outflank him.
Dumb, dumb, dumb. I understand opposing an unclean bill that's been porked up, but McCain opposed the one hitch rule.
Idiot. The Bill already had 26 GOP Co-sponsors
That said, Kleiman is simply being a putz, and it's okay to Chickenhawk Barack. Somebody has to. I don't see why the heck you're wasting your time worrying about being fair to the other side. They aren't worrying about being fair to you.
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it"-Winston Churchill
They should never be able to say, "I was never told."
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
Only Republicans can be chickenhawks, never Democrats.
Remember, as Rush says, for Dems THERE ARE NO RULES, only customs and traditions.
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.