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Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric:
I can agree with about half of what you say here, Mr. Mopery. Clinton was a better statesman, because he is willing to say whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear and Bush isn't. Not knocking Clinton on that point, because that is what a good diplomat or statesman does...he disagrees with his opponents in a very "agreeable" manner.
But to say that he avoided the draft with more panache???  He just left the country...not much panache required to do that. If anything, I would say Bush had more panache. He avoided the draft but can still claim military experience on his resume'.
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I don't really know that much about Bush's days in the Guard and I just ran across the bit about him "missing a year" online, thought I'd post it and see what people thought. If there was some kind of clerical error, my mistake, though I appreciate that you leave some room for doubt on the issue. It's not worth belabouring the point, either way.
But I definitely think Clinton avoided the draft with more panache. He went to, where...Oxford was it? On a prestigious scholarship. There is evidence that he earned the trip to Oxford on his own merits, whereas Bush got into the Guard because one of his father's friends made a "request".
Plus Bush was stuck mostly in Texas; Clinton went to Europe and saw something different. I'm sorry if anybody out there loves Texas dearly...please understand that I lived in that state for much longer than was medically advisable, in Dallas, Houston and Harlingen...but I think it's a fairly crap state. Lousy architecture, pre-fabricated everything and a very wasteful consumer culture. Yes, I'm flaming the state but I was forced to live there long enough that I'm damned well entitled. Grr!
(pant, pant...gasp...hic...sigh) Annoyance fading...fading...gone.
Sorry for that. And yes, by all means you Texans out there are welcome to throw some mud back at me.
Anyway, my point was that Clinton got to see the world, got a good education and there's some argument for the idea that he earned his opportunity to dodge the draft. Bush needed a phone call and a memo from Daddy's friend.