None of Romney's sons has served in military

[eagler]

This has been posted before but needs to be continuously brought up, because it says alot,
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/05/14/none_of_romneys_sons_has_served_in_military/

BOSTON --While Republican Mitt Romney is hawkish on the presidential campaign trail, none of his five sons has served in the military and one of them says it troubles him.


"I feel guilty not having done it," Josh Romney, the 31-year-old middle son, said amid a profile of his father broadcast Sunday on the CBS News program "60 Minutes."

Matt Romney, at 35 the second eldest son, also told interviewer Mike Wallace, "I hope to be able to make a sacrifice of that caliber at some point in my life."

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Not too late to join up boys. The army is taking people into their 50s now I think.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. and he has what, 23 sons and 17 daughters, right?

or something like that.

[MNDemNY]

6. Only counts those of "first wife".

[MNDemNY]

3. I'm shocked, SHOCKED!!

[Fridays Child]

4. But they've been on "missions," which, according to Mormons I know, is...

...considered to be a public service that's equivalent to military service. :eyes:

[Ezlivin]

5. But serving as LDS missionaries is the exact same thing

Right?

They have enough passion and love for their church to put their lives on the line in foreign lands to tell others that Joseph Smith uncovered golden tablets at Hill Cumoroah and then translated them with the Urm and the Thummim?

[partylessinOhio]

7. Don't Mormons believe in military service? I believe that have to go out

and try to convert others to their religion. They also have to wear those "garments" that they cannot take off so how would that fit with wearing a uniform and serving their country?

Then of course no rich people ever serve and the Romneys are very wealthy. Does anyone know how they gained this wealth?

[onenote]

20. posts that smack of religious bigotry should be beneath us

Members of the LDS church serve in the military. George Wahlen won the Medal of Honor for his heroic efforts at providing medical aid to fallen soldiers at Iwo Jima. Mormons have died, and sadly will continue to die in Iraq.

[SteelPenguin]

8. Neither has Chelsea Clinton

I see no need to attack Romney's sons, when Romney himself is a complete flip flopping chickenhawk douchebag.

Would it be better if Romney had disowned his own children if they had refused to serve?

I don't think it says anything other than adults can have differing opinions from their parents. Thank god too otherwise I'd be a callous libertarian like my father. Should we hold my views against my father? That's just not right.

[eagler]

10. If this damn war is so important then all who support it should be asked to

actively participate.

[SteelPenguin]

23. Who says they support it?

Do you agree with absolutely everything your parents believe in? If you disagree and they were in public service would you call them out on it?

Most wouldn't because it would be disrespectfull to their parents. Disagree in private I'm sure, but in public most would not comment directly on it.

Plus they're not running for office. I just don't think someone's adult children need to be brought into the discussion.

[mitchtv]

35. I believe they are working in and/or supporting

Chickenhawk's campaign, that's enough for me

[partylessinOhio]

11. Why bring up Chelsea and not the drunken Bush twinnies?

I personally do not believe that women should be asked to serve in the military. Further, I also do not believe in war for lies, war for profit and invasion of sovereign countries. I believe in peace.

[eagler]

12. God Bless Cindy Shehan

[SteelPenguin]

24. Or Cheney's daughter for that matter

Of course that would invove a stretch of the don't ask don't tell...

I bring up Chelsea because she's the daughter of one of our presidential candidates who might be competeing directly against Romney. I also bring her up because Rush Limbaugh and the right savagely made fun of the poor girl for many different things, particularly when she was a minor and helpless. It was wrong then to pick on the child of a president or presidential candidate and it's wrong now.

I don't care what Romney's kids think, or what Chelsea Clinton thinks. I don't care if any of them have served, or haven't served, and what their reasons are. I don't care whether they support the war, or just say the support the war to support their parents, or vice versa.

I care what their parents think, and do, and say.

Romney is a douchebag flip flopper who would sell his mother down the river for an ounce of power. Who gives a fuck what his 30 year old kids do.

[wuushew]

27. That makes you a poor feminist

n/t

[kestrel91316]

15. My guess would be those five boys all enthusiastically support

this war with their flapping lips.

[SteelPenguin]

25. So what if they do

A child's positions should have no bearing on the parent. I have different opinions than my parents, should that be held against them by their friends?

[kestrel91316]

32. Anybody who supports the war should be willing to go serve, if they

have no physical impediments. Particularly if they are using that support to bolster their family's political and financial fortunes, as a presidential campaign tends to do.

[Bucky]

17. And why are we letting Malia and Natasha Obama off the hook? Make them serve their country!

"Daddy needs you to go make the world safe for our freedoms, princess. If you don't Elmo will be tortured."

[eagler]

19. The point here is to call out the war hawks(or rather,chicken hawks)

and to tell them to put up or shut up.

[SteelPenguin]

26. LOL

No daddy, not Elmo!

[Iris]

21. well, there weren't FIVE of her.

But I agree that his sons should not be responsible for holding up his rhetoric. If the 31 year old feels so guilty, he should join up if that's his choice. Otherwise, I don't care how he "feels".

[SteelPenguin]

28. Yeah we don't care, because it doesn't matter

How his 31 year old feels is about as relevant to the debate as Paris Hilton finding God. It's what Al Gore derides abotu the entire system. People are making a story about half a sentence one of Romney's sons made in an interview that probably lasted hours.

I could care less, and bringing it up on our side with derision makes us look bad, imho.

[Iris]

29. well said.

I've been bothered lately by my cynicism and flat-out anger at how stupid some people seem, but I've realized it's because I need to learn to filter. And, as you point out, there's a lot to filter, but most people don't realize that.

[SteelPenguin]

30. I'm not angry at people for it

I think after all the crap that Bushco has done to this country people are bound to find any loose thread and start yanking on it. Hard. We're just fed up.

I just don't want us to waste our energy on meaningless fluff pieces and instead focus on the fact that the Republican Party wants to keep our nation in a state of endless war, destroying the environment, bullying the world, bankrupting the middle class, and more.

[Iris]

31. well, believe me, I don't want to be angry at people! n/t

O8)

[AndreaCG]

33. A more pertinent point: Neither have Barbara and Jenna Bush

And their damn father LIED US INTO THIS INFERNAL WAR!

[Gato Moteado]

9. typical repuke......

let's have some military action to enrich my friends and contributors in the arms and oil industry. but i ain't sending my kids into the war....let the poor people and the blacks and hispanics take care of the dirty work. my little white mormon children are too good for that stuff. their childhoods should be spent like other privileged white children...driving new cars around with their friends, playing sports, shopping at the mall. sure, they'll wave the flag for a photo op here or there, but they won't go anywhere near the military.

the fact that 100% of the public hasn't gotten this all figured out by now is astonishing. there are still 28% (mainly freeptards and other white trash) willing to pee all over themselves and support republican fascist policies.

it was a repub himself, dwight eisenhower, that gave warning of what we're seeing now. a president and general, ike had the guts to point this out. i imagine he's a rino to the freeptards.

[LibDemAlways]

13. Guess they all had "other priorities," sort of like Cheney.

About as close as the kids of most wealthy politicians ever get to the military is watching a rerun of "Private Benjamin" on tv.

[kestrel91316]

14. There's no time like the present. I suggest all 5 sign up RIGHT NOW.

[Puglover]

16. Um Josh, Matt.

Like my old granny used to say. "Talk is cheap"

[Vickers]

18. Like father, like sons. The daddy never served his country, either.

I guess they didn't push military service at The Cranbrook School (an expensive prep school in high-dollar Bloomfield Hills, MI).

:eyes:

[lonestarnot]

22. sounds like the bushitler twin morons.

[TX-RAT]

34. Sounds like allot of politicians kids.

They way it has been and the way it will always be.

[lonestarnot]

37. O ... K

:eyes:

[AllegroRondo]

36. unless his sons are actively working on his campaign

i dont see why it should matter.