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| 2003-11-22 | |
| This article in the New York Times, discusses Dean’s suspect deferement from the draft in 1970. Then-student Dean was eager to get a medical exception so he wouldn’t be drafted. The back condition that kept Dean out of the military didn’t appear to be that serious. In the 10 months after his graduation from Yale, time he might otherwise have spent in uniform, Dr. Dean lived the life of a ski bum in Aspen, Colo. His back condition did not affect his skiing the way the rigors of military service would have, he said, nor did it prevent him from taking odd jobs like pouring concrete in the warm months and washing dishes when it got cold. However hipocritcal that might be, that is not why I’m writing this entry. The following two short paragraphs are: In early 1970, more than a year before Dr. Dean’s student deferment was due to lapse, he decided to see where he stood. If approved for service, he said, he thought he might try Officer Candidate School, as a Yale friend had done. He said he had never considered the National Guard. This is incredibly arrogant, stupid, and hipocritical. "Sure", says young Dean, "I don’t want to serve in the military, to the point of relying on a cooked-up medical reason, but if I’m forced to serve, I’ll do so as an officer." Here’s yet another reason to keep our military an all-volunteer force; to keep hipocritical snobs like Howard Dean out of the Officer Corp.
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| Posted by:Sorge |
| #3 I read Dean even was on the wrestling team in college. msn.com had a great spread on all nine nit-wits last month - that's where I got that from. Wrestling - one of the most demanding sports in all of collegiate athletics but he couldn't handle recruit training...he claims it was the excessive running that he would have to do at boot camp that worried the doctors screening him...probably all b.s. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2003-11-22 11:08:24 PM |
| #2 He didn't even have enough character to go as a DOCTOR?!?! So let's put the 'blue-collar rolled up sleeves, everyman' myth to rest: spoiled rich kid, went to Aspen and was a trust-fund ski 'bum', then went to med school. Hmm, if he's such a 'bum' how did he pay for it? Sounds like just another privileged aristo. If there were any rape allegations, I'd say he was Kennedy. |
| Posted by: commo 2003-11-22 7:18:50 PM |
| #1 "Niedermyers"! -- one word and I know EXACTLY what you mean! |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-11-22 4:52:25 PM |