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Originally posted by dculkin
I disagree. The campaign is like a job interview. The voters should try to vet the candidates as thorougly as possible. That Kerry volunteered for dangerous duty when he didn't have to says something good about him, but it does not mean that you don't look at what he did after the war.
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When I interview folks for jobs I ask them questions relevant to the job at hand. I am unconvinced that this is relevant.
For example, the previous president nuanced his young ass completely out of service. Should that have disqualified him? I don't think so.
One of the smartest guys we've ever had in the presidency was a naval officer trained as a nukular engineer and his complete, whole 4-year term was a train wreck. Nixon and Johnson were both Naval officers, too.
So if I learn anything from military records, I believe we should prevent anybody who's ever been a naval officer from being president.
In other words, that military stuff is good for one thing: The military. When folks go in they shed their civilian rights and become assimilated into the continuum. When folks get out, they shed the uniform and become individuals. In most instances the KASOCs are wildly different.