Tom Harkin (D-Bahamas) Is A Tool
Posted by Chris Neuendorf on May 22, 2008
Our favorite absent senator took time to open his stupid mouth last week. It was in the Register last Friday and finally Fox News picked it up and it is currently on their front page.
Anyway, most Iowan’s have probably already heard it but Mr. Harkin thinks that McCain being in the military is dangerous!
Harkin, who has a history of embellishing his own military record, told Iowa reporters last week that McCain’s background as the son and grandson of Navy admirals creates a “dangerous” situation because he can only view the world through the prism of the military.
“He has a hard time thinking beyond that,” Harkin said, according to The Des Moines Register. “I think he’s trapped in that. Everything is looked at from his life experiences, from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous.”
What a tool. I would think, maybe, most folks with an extensive military background are probably LESS dangerous when given the reigns to our military machine. They’ve been there, they know the cost of deploying our military. They know the how it disrupts lives when folks members have to leave their family members behind for a deployment. They understand the potential risk to the troops because they have been there themselves. They have faced that risk.
Did Bill Clinton’s lack of military service effect the way he saw events before and after “Blackhawk Down?”
You military guys tell me if I’m off the mark here. Not about the fact that Tom Harkin is a tool. I am 100% right about that.
May 22, 2008 at 8:41 pm
I think that you’re correct, Chris. Several presidents have been military commanders at the highest level, such as Washington, Grant, and Eisenhower. They were considerably more conflict-averse than other presidents. Washington had a famous proscription against foreign entanglements, and Eisenhower criticized the military-industrial complex.
Other presidents survived combat, but were not involved in decisions at the strategic level — men like Bush I, Teddy Roosevelt, and Kennedy. All three either won — or should have won — the Nobel Peace Prize.
May 22, 2008 at 10:41 pm
He’s right. We should only let life long politicians be politicians. They certainly don’t have a skewed sense of reality.
May 23, 2008 at 6:06 am
Wow, I am impressed. It only took a few months to turn military experience into a negative trait for a President, once we had a candidate with a solid military record. So the Democrats have spent the last 6 years going after Bush’s National Guard record (did he or didn’t he serve, which probably matches the length of time the republicans went after Clinton), when in fact according to Harkin he would have been better prepared for the Presidency if he didn’t serve. Ah, I do love it when Harkin is out there representing Iowans with such brilliant insight.
Sorry Harkin, but military experience still ranks pretty high on my qualifications lists. It won’t necessarily sway me, but it definitely doesn’t hurt the candidate.
Yes, Harkin is a tool. A power tool. A cordless power tool.
One final observation. McCain has a ton of non-military negatives to focus on, why do democrats keep wanting to bring up his service record?
September 11, 2008 at 2:59 pm
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