Royalty: UK vs. Utah
Pondering England's bad-boy Prince Harry's tour of duty in Afghanistan, Allison Kilkenny at the Huffington Post reminds us that despite their dad's vocal support of the Iraq War, Mitt Romney's kids haven't enlisted.
Romney says his kids were serving the nation by helping him get elected president. If you remember, Mitt got walloped and "suspended" that campaign, so the kids must be at loose ends. (Josh, of course, may be running for Congress.)
Says Kilkenny: He showed himself to be a racially insensitive, wildly out-of-touch corporatist, who thinks so little of the serfs crammed into Iraqi desert bunkers that he compared his sons campaigning for his pathetic presidential run to soldiers serving in the armed forces. Mitt Romney compared his sons riding in his air-conditioned bus with the service and sacrifice of soldiers. He did so with a straight face, despite almost 4,000 bodies having arrived back home (an increasing number of them suicides), plus anywhere from 23,000 to 100,000 wounded, and approximately 80,000 Iraqi civilian deaths from violence, which is a conservative estimate.Wow. If you would like to read more of Kilkenny's screed, go here. If you want to read the words of Prince Harry's famous bad-boy predecessor to his band of brothers, go here.
1 Comments:
Nobody was going to vote for Romney based on whether or not his sons served in the military. Obama's kids are not in the JROTC either, so it is a moot point.
Basically, the author doesn't like the war (shock!)and Mitt should just have said: "my sons are helping me, and that's their choice".
Just like it was the choice of EVERYONE of the brave men and women who enlisted.
This author makes it sound as if they all went kicking and screaming.
I hate to say this, it is so cliched, but that's typical liberal media for you.
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