May 17, 2008

Dear Senator Harkin:

You sir don't know what the hell you are talking about!.  Your comment that Senator McCain's "Life Experiences" in the military make him unsuitable for the presidency almost caused me to lose my lunch.  According to a story on you from the DesMoines Register:

"Republican presidential candidate John McCain's family background as the son and grandson of admirals has given him a worldview shaped by the military, "and he has a hard time thinking beyond that," Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Ia., said Friday.

"I think he's trapped in that," Harkin said in a conference call with Iowa reporters. "Everything is looked at from his life experiences, from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous."
Dangerous? Why you pansy assed excuse for a Senator! First of all, he wasn't ALWAYS in the military, an awful lot of his experience has been exactly where you have been, the halls of Congress. Second of all, you LIED about your "combat" experience and your exact words were captured by David Broder: 
"One year was in Vietnam. I was flying F-4s and F-8s on combat air patrols and photo-reconnaissance support missions. I did no bombing."
Well I don't think you can hold a candle to my late father-in-law, Kenneth Locke, who flew dozens of missions in a B-26 Martin Marauder.  "Flak Bait" to be exact, the plane with over 200 missions over Europe in WWII and Ken was on that 200th Mission. 

You can't hold even a tiny candle to my dad, the late Col. George M. Roper, Jr.  Dad enlisted in 1940 because he knew a war was coming.  His dad Lt. Col George M. Roper, Sr. was a Japanese POW in the Philippines during WWII spending the last 6 months of captivity in the Bilibid Prison Hospital.  His dad enlisted in 1906 in the Calvary and served in both WWI and WWII.  Dad served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam and for you to claim kinship with these heroes by saying you flew combat air patrols over Vietnam makes me sick.

My dad grew up in the military, his dad gave some 42 years to the military and dad 32.  Dad attained his rank of full bull without the aid of a college degree and was one of the smartest, most patriotic men I've ever met.  He was my hero and I'm damned pissed off that you would even try to make a comment about Senator McCain.  You aren't fit to lick his shoes and if you don't know that, I by-G*D will tell you so!

How dare you even think that you can denigrate multiple generations of career service families.  Many of those families have spent far more life experiencing years in the military than my family and many have given a son or daughter to protect your right to be a damned horses ass. 

So grow up Senator, accept the fact that you are a liar and Senator McCain is a Hero.  Oh, and while you are at it, a sign of growing up might be to issue an apology to Senator McCain and all of the "military families."  It is not only the least you can do, but conversely it will be the MOST that you have EVER done. Oh, and one last thing Senator.  My Uncle James was in the Army in WWII.  He is a liberal and a Democrat and is still 100 times the man that you are!

Jerk!

Thanks to Gateway Pundit, & Flopping Aces, via the incredible Larwyn

UPDATE:  More from Big Dog

UPDATE # 2:  An update from Larwyn:  "Now we can go thru, minutely, OBAMA's LIFE EXPERIENCE!! Harkin has opened the door  to influence of family & cultures (like the culture of the military) - All is game, tks to Harkin!!"

UPDATE # 3  Found THIS in a comment over to Althouse's place

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There's a lot of reasons I have for not liking Sen. McCain, but his military experience and/or his military raising is NOT one of them...

GM, I am gonna be nice, it's your blog and I won't go overboard, but Harkin is a WUSSY...

Well, it sounds like wussy anyway...

Posted by: TexasFred at Saturday, May 17 2008 09:08 PM (I04No)

2 I see.  So all the things one learns from a military upbringing and being a member of the military count for naught in Harkin's eyes.  Things like honor, sacrifice and self-discipline.  I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Harkin probably missed those parts of his own military experience and training.  So much so that he had to lie about it.

Posted by: Oyster at Sunday, May 18 2008 05:03 AM (hCybq)

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Let us not be surprised that Tom Harkin made such a statement.  I agree with you that Harkin made the statement to smear McCain, but this is not an entirely new or novel stratagem among liberal democrats.  One only needs to consider the source; the difference between Harkin and McCain (both fourth-term senators) could not be more distinct.  As an Iowan democrat, Harkins has helped to dismantle the agricultural framework of this country, transforming it from rugged individualist agri-business into a subsistence dependency; he is one of those stalwart socialists who helped turn the entire framework over to corporate giants.  Harkin left the Navy in 1967 (while the nation was still at war in Vietnam); McCain’s combat service began in 1966 and ended in 1973 when released from captivity.  While Harkin was seeking political office “back home,” McCain risked personal injury rescuing a fellow pilot from an aircraft fire aboard the USS Forrestal; he was short down over North Vietnam in the same year.

 

What should we conclude about Harkin’s statement?  For one thing, he represents that genre of politician McCain railed about in 1966.  Frustrated by micromanagement from Washington, McCain and fellow pilots believed, “. . . we thought our civilian commanders were complete idiots who didn’t have the least notion of what it took to win the war”; the same frustration shared by author Stephen Coonts, who wrote the exceptional story Flight of the Intruder.

 

If by “military mindset” Harkin suggests that we need a no-nonsense leader, a man who consistently demonstrated professional integrity, toughness, an unwillingness to compromise on the most essential issues, and a maverick who does the right thing because it is right, then McCain is preferable over the baby-kissing sycophant who will do or say anything to achieve the White House.

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