GOP saying Obama/Biden is first ticket in 68 yrs without military experience- Can we debunk this? [View All]

[highplainsdem]

Personally, I don't think this is likely to make much difference to those voters most likely to vote for Obama anyway.

But since the Rethugs know Biden has been added to the ticket for his experience, they're apparently deciding to go after his lack of military experience.

Anyway, does anyone here know enough about the military experience of both the nominee and the VP on past tickets to debunk this one, so at least that "68 years" part of it can be debunked?

I hadn't heard this attack on the ticket before. It turned up minutes ago when I was checking Google News for stories on Obama, and it's the headline of a piece at Town Hall by Michael Medved:

http://michaelmedved.townhall.com/blog/g/11acdf10-67e7-4148-90fe-d9bc28d7dc0c

Medved's suggesting Republicans "make a big deal" of this.

If we can't debunk the number of years it's been since there was a ticket where neither running mate had military experience, is there a good example from earlier years of a GREAT ticket, a winning ticket and a successful presidency, where neither running mate had any military experience?