John McCain, his father, and grandfather
Since when is having a family history of service in the United States military a negative?
John McCain's "father and paternal grandfather both became four-star United States Navy admirals. His family (including his older sister Sandy and younger brother Joe) followed his father to various naval postings in the United States and the Pacific."
Such a history of service is a source of great pride, not shame.
Tom Harkin doesn't it see it that way at all. He has decided John McCain's service and that of his family make him unfit to be commander-in-chief.
From FOX News:
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin is catching grief for suggesting John McCain’s family history of military service makes the presumptive Republican presidential nominee unfit to be commander-in-chief.
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.”
The paper also quotes Iowa’s junior senator telling reporters, “It’s one thing to have been drafted and served, but another thing when you come from generations of military people and that’s just how you’re steeped, how you’ve learned, how you’ve grown up.”
That is unbelievable. It's disgraceful.
What was Harkin thinking?
If he thought he was doing Barack Obama a favor, he was wrong.
Harkin makes Democrats look positively anti-military and anti-American.
I question Harkin's patriotism.
Note to Obama: Get a larger American flag lapel pin. You'll need it.
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