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President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Jan 20, 2021.

  1. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    The MAGAs always counter with Biden’s deferments for asthma.

    About that:
    1) Asthma has always been a disqualifying condition for military service. My father tried to volunteer for Korea and they wouldn’t take him because of asthma.
    2). Biden’s father was a used car salesman, not particularly rich or politically connected.

    Given those things I tend to think his deferments were legitimate.
     
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  2. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    Thank goodness Biden will be the last president whose draft status we will care about.

    At least until Herschel Walker.
     
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  3. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    God's
    Only
    Party

     
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  4. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

  5. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Them sunzabitches are tough ... you seen their Class of '23 recruiting rankings?
     
  6. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    Republican hypocrisy is so colossal, it almost overshadows their wretched views. Almost.

     
  7. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

  8. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Don’t do Pigpen like that. He has a heart of gold.
     
  9. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    Love the group name

     
  10. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Biden was born in 1942. He was of draftable age in a time well before Vietnam. Had he been drafted and inducted, he never would have been sent to a war zone.
     
  11. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    For a non-combat role, would asthma still be disqualifying?
     
  12. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    My grandfather was a carpenter prior to WWII. He was missing a big toe that got chopped off when he was as a kid. He tried to enlist more than once. They wouldn’t take him. He asked to work as a carpenter building barracks, etc. They still wouldn’t take him.
     
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