Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, showing the kind of thoughtfulness and gravitas that has made him such a towering historical figure had this to say today about John McCain:
“He has a hard time thinking beyond that,” Harkin said, according to The Des Moines Register. “I think he’s trapped in that. Everything is looked at from his life experiences, from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous.”
It is possible that in talking about those who have served their country he might be thinking, not of people like McCain who suffered grievously in war but of people like himself who...
...served in the Navy on active duty for five years, and remained in the reserves until 1989. But while running for president in 2004, he was forced to admit that he never did combat air patrols or photo reconnaissance in Vietnam as he had claimed.
According to The Wall Street Journal, which acquired his military records at the time of his presidential bid, Harkin ferried damaged aircraft between repair stations in Japan and the Philippines, and ran test flights of the planes after they were fixed.
Oddly the Senator didn't cite as examples some former Presidents with military backgrounds like General George Washington and General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Must have been an oversight.
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