Ron Paul was married, had 2 kids when he was drafted!

[peonyu]

Ron Paul didn't serve in combat, contrary to the innuendo in the OP, but rather as an officer, a flight surgeon in the Air Force. I can't find any reference that he was ever stationed abroad.

It's not quite the same as serving on a Swiftboat in the Mekong Delta...

He still got to see first hand how fucked up people who fought in combat came back as. He probably treated peers who came back missing arms, legs, a penis and more. What has Obama done in any combat role other than order missile strikes from 6000 miles away to nail a heavily populated city like Tripoli ?

 

[EagleKeeper]

He still got to see first hand how fucked up people who fought in combat came back as. He probably treated peers who came back missing arms, legs, a penis and more. What has Obama done in any combat role other than order missile strikes from 6000 miles away to nail a heavily populated city like Tripoli ?

Given Paul's specialty; I expect he never saw a combat wound. Missing penis would have been when an airman returned and told his wife he had a GF over in SE Asia.

 

[woolfe9999]

And 1. isn't even that shocking, I'm an atheist and have never understood the big stink about voluntary prayer in public schools, for example. As long as students aren't forced to participate, I don't really see the big deal, I couldn't care less if someone wants to pray while I'm around because it has no bearing whatsoever on my beliefs. But obviously the USSC disagrees, it could be construed as a state establishment of religion. Banning prayer in public schools could also be construed as a violation of the Free Exercise Clause, though. The two clauses are kind of contradictory IMO.

This is wrong. The issue is not "prayer in school." It is whether the institution itself can sponsor/organize a prayer session. Since students can pray on school grounds provided there is no involvement of the institution itself, there is no issue with free exercise, and no tension between the free exercise and establishment clauses.

It's also irrelevant whether you perceive others praying as affecting you or not. The trouble with state sponsored prayer is that the institution is implicitly endorsing religion. This sends a message to impressionable children. The idea that state run institutions can endorse religion is an end around to the "no state religion" doctrine. It isn't OK for the state to endorse religion while not officially declaring a state religion. If the state endorses religion, that is a de facto state religion.

- wolf

 

[piasabird]

Was he drafted for WWI?

 

[soundforbjt]

Was he drafted for WWI?

Nope, The Civil War.

 

[Ausm]

I thought they shot him out of the howitzers and that's how they cleaned the barrels.

 

[Ausm]

This. Surgeons do NOT serve in combat. That would be stupid.

You obviously don't know Jack Shit about War in general I take it?

 

[SandEagle]

http://img.ibtimes.com/www/articles/20120109/278884_ron-paul-2012-went-photo-goes-viral.htm


Paul was criticizing so-called "chickenhawks," or politicians who are hawkish about going to war but personally shirked the opportunity to serve in the U.S. military.
"I think people who don't serve when they could and they get three or four or even five deferments have no right to send our kids off to war," said Paul in a clear reference to Gingrich.
Gingrich responded: "I was married with a child." :\

To which Paul famously shot back: "When I was drafted, I was married and had two kids, and I went."
Paul finished his sentence with pursed lips and a steely gaze. The crowd was silent for a moment. Then, it broke out in applause.





he was a flight surgeon

 

[xj0hnx]

I am talking about mandatory school prayer, before the SCOTUS ruled that the 14th amendment prevented school prayer, some schools had MANDATORY school prayers. Ron Paul would repeal the 14th amendment and once again we could have MANDATORY school prayer.

I doubt you could get any more stupid if you tried. Could you post even a single link with Ron Paul saying anything even remotely close to wanting to force mandatory school prayers?

In the mind of Ron Paul if the state governments wanted to do these things they should have a right to. People need protection from tyrannical governments, and state governments can be just as tyrannical.

Obviously one man cannot repeal the 14th amendment. It is doubtful if support for such a repeal is even in the double digits.

Hey moron, in the mind of Ron Paul the state governments could also legalize gay marriage, drugs, and abortions, but I guess that's just too much for your infantile mind to process as long as you have all the baseless hyperbole rantings from the likes of idiots such as Rabidfailgoose filling your pea brain.

 

[pcgeek11]

Usually reserved the Army/Marine medics.

Even in M.A.S.H. they were portrayed as 3-5 miles behind the lines.

Marines do not have Medics. They use US Navy Corpsmen ( the best in the world ).

 

[pcgeek11]

You obviously don't know Jack Shit about War in general I take it?

I served 20 years+ in the military. How much time did you serve?

 

[RabidMongoose]

I doubt you could get any more stupid if you tried.

Sure he or anyone else could. They could just be a Paulbot.