The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Monday, October 23, 2017

So mad at Trump he endorses a leftist whine about social class and the draft to hit him

John McCain keeps serving his revenge to Donald Trump ice cold

Speaking of Vietnam, he said this.

"One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never, ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest income level of America, and the highest income level found a doctor that would say they had a bone spur. That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve."

While McCain didn't mention any names, anyone paying any sort of attention knows that he is talking about President Donald Trump, who received five deferments during the Vietnam War, including one for -- you guessed it! -- bone spurs.

Remarking on this on MSNBC, George Will, who spent nearly all of the war years in school and somehow completely avoided military service, went McCain one better and, quite unprovoked, denounced student deferments as though they got people out of military service, altogether, rather than merely delaying it.

He actually said of the students of those years, "They didn't go," and that is simply a lie, though of course he didn't go.

Apart from the few whose deferments didn't run out until Nixon stopped sending draftees to Vietnam, we did go; of this I write from personal experience.

And if we ever have a draft again do we really want not to have medical exemptions?

As well abandon Medicare - or health insurance in general - because some people make fraudulent claims.

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