Pilonidal Cyst

Over at Tiny Little Dots there's some great stuff on Dick Cheney's shooting accident asking: "Is Cheney hiding his Lewinsky? Does a bloody shirt trump a semen dress?" On a separate but not unrelated point he also has a good question asking: "Who is fit to lead this country in war?" Okay - maybe you don't want soldiers in office but the point of hypocrisy is valid enough, and often those who have been in war are the least likely to start them...(PS I don't get the Ted Nugent joke either)

Democrats

* Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.

* David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.

* Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.

* Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.

* Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam.

* Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII.

* John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with

Combat V Purple Hearts.

Republicans

* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by marriage.

* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.

* Tom Delay: did not serve.

* Roy Blunt: did not serve.

* Bill Frist: did not serve.

* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.

* Rick Santorum: did not serve.

* Trent Lott: did not serve.

* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.

* Jeb Bush: did not serve.

* Karl Rove: did not serve.

* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. “Bad knee.” The man who attacked Max Cleland’s patriotism.

* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.

* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.

* Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.

* George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U.S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam, disappeared from duty.

* Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non-combat role making movies.

* B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.

* Phil Gramm: did not serve.

* Jack Kemp: did not serve. “Knee problem,” although continued in NFL for 8 years.

* Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.

* Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.

* Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.

Pundits & Preachers

* Sean Hannity: did not serve.

* Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a ‘pilonidal cyst.’)

* Bill O’Reilly: did not serve.

* Pat Buchanan: did not serve.

* John Wayne: did not serve.

* Kenneth Starr: did not serve.

* Clarence Thomas: did not serve.

* Ralph Reed: did not serve.

* Ted Nugent: did not serve. (He only shoots at things that don’t shoot back.)

8 Comments

fantastic, where did you get this from?

tubthumper on February 21, 2006 at 5:39 PM

oops, didn't scroll down on the link. i get it now

tubthumper on February 21, 2006 at 5:40 PM

do you mind if i post this as well, with a link and an acknowledgement over to you??

tubthumper on February 21, 2006 at 5:43 PM

Hey Guys,

Thanks for the plug. Sorry I never got those pics up, by the time I got around to it, it was no longer timely. Been busy lately with that little thing called "life". Unfortunately kids and money come before blogging. I know I know, where are my priorities.

The list isn't complete,

http://tinylittledots.com/wordpress/?p=547

I hope you're not "cherry picking the intelligence" from my site to go to war with me. As for Ted Nugent, he's a rabid outspoken hunter. He has property in Michigan where he ships in animals so he can have canned hunts, much like Cheney.

Cheers!

t

tiny on February 21, 2006 at 5:47 PM

Hey Tubthumper - post away - its Tiny Liottle Dots you should credit.

As for Tiny, what is this 'Life' you speak of?

Gus on February 21, 2006 at 7:07 PM

Rush Limbaugh, ha ha, that guy was the funniest I've ever seen, superb. Gus you gotta do a Rush Limbaugh special!

Davey O on February 21, 2006 at 8:46 PM

This cuts both ways: I can see the point about flabby flag-waving Republicans who shirked facing action sending out largely poor and ethnic minority young Americans to die and be maimed in Iraq but....I went to university [in Scotland] in 1967 and demonstrated and protested and argued against the war in Vietnam, I knew American exchange students whose cry was 'Hell, no, I won't go' and I feel queasy about applauding those Democrat politicians who signed up to an imperialist war, to the smell of napalm in the morning.

delescluze on February 21, 2006 at 9:24 PM

Yeah I know what you mean delescluze, as I said: "...but the point of hypocrisy is valid enough."

Gus on February 22, 2006 at 4:35 PM

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