09/24/20 12:39 PM EDT, Article Only a third of Democrats said military service by their nominee was important at all.
“The Vietnam War is ancient history in the Democratic Party,” veteran Democratic strategist Bob Shrum told InsideSources. 09/24/20 11:46 AM EDT, Article “They should do their full duty to the country, and if there is a draft, they should make every effort to serve their time just like other Americans had to do.”.
My son died of cancer. Joe Biden's lack of military experience would place him among a minority of American presidents who never wore the uniform, including President Donald Trump, if he were elected for the nation's highest office. In fact, some Democratic strategists believe that’s their true goal. He added, the author “went back and looked at Beau’s tenure as a civilian with the U.S. attorney’s office [in Kosovo] and then his year in Iraq.
And what about the “strength of character” in 1968? From the September 18, 2020, edition of Premiere Networks’ The Rush Limbaugh Show, Later in Limbaugh’s broadcast, he spoke with a caller who said that Biden discussing his son’s death was “playing on people’s emotions” and called it “one of the most vile, disgusting things I’ve ever seen.”, Limbaugh told the caller that Biden “tried to say that his son died in part serving in the military, but he didn’t. This is to show his empathy to vets.
He had to get a waiver because of his age at the time of his commissioning. “Joe Biden is a very strong advocate of the military and veterans, despite having not served,” Bassett said. JOE BIDEN:From Scranton to vice president and beyond. Biden frequently tells the story of his decision to spend a summer home from college working as the only white lifeguard at a pool predominately used by black residents. “You have somebody who thinks it’s all right to have somebody go in his place into a deadly war and is willing to pretend to be disabled to do it. Just six years later, at the height of the fighting in Vietnam, that same poolside athlete avoided mandatory military service due to “asthma as a teenager.”, Joe Biden’s high school yearbook from Archmere Academy, Does this prove that Biden was dishonest or made a false claim? In recent weeks, two of the military veterans in the race — Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton — have been highlighting Trump’s draft record and their own military service. “Seth is running to take on Donald Trump and has been leading the field in challenging him directly as commander-in-chief,” Moulton campaign spokesperson Matt Corridoni told InsideSources.
“I certainly don’t agree with someone taking a deferment and to avoid service to their country, particularly when they have aims of public service at the time,” she told InsideSources.
This is to show his empathy to vets. In a 2018 interview on PBS NewsHour, Biden revealed that he had only learned years after Beau’s death, reading the 2016 book The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers, that Beau was exposed to burning waste sites during his military service in both Kosovo and Iraq.
For Comments, Questions, Or Complaints aboutour articles please contact us. He came home from Iraq — and I have to tell you, it really, really offended me — when he volunteered to go there for a year, and he came home because of stage 4 glioblastoma. “Joe Biden is a very strong advocate of the military and veterans, despite having not served,” Bassett said.
He died of cancer six years after he had served in the military. Michael Graham is political editor at InsideSources. "As a result of a physical exam on April 5, 1968, Joe Biden was classified 1-Y and disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager," said David Wade, a campaign spokesman.
The Obama campaign released Biden's Selective Service records in 2008 at the request of the Associated Press.