Steinem vs. McCain

Battling computer problems (fricken Dell is really start to anger me), I was unable to comment on that fella Gloria Steinhem’s attack on McCain yesterday, so I’ll give a shot today, from this NY Post link;

Steinem’s slap at McCain’s service in Vietnam came during a “Women for Hillary” campaign event in Austin on Sunday night.

Her anti-military riff was part of her claim that the press has a gender-based bias against Clinton.

“Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and Joan McCain had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years,” she said.

“Reporters would ask, ‘What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?’ ” Steinem said.

She went on to slam military experience in general – an unusual tactic in a state with some of the country’s largest military installations.

“I am so grateful that she hasn’t been trained to kill anybody,” Steinem said of Clinton.

How desperate is Clinton that she drags out Gloria Steinhem’s corpse – who’s next Bella Abzug? No reporters have to ask John McCain what he did wrong to get captured – it’s in his book “Faith of My Fathers” – the book doesn’t have any color pictures so Gloria might have passed on it.

Hillary knew she needed an excuse as to why she doesn’t have any military experience – that’s why she made up the story about the Marines rejecting her back in the 70s because she’s a girl (NY Times link);

She told the group gathered for lunch in the Dirksen Office Building, according to The Associated Press, that she became interested in the military in 1975, the year she married Bill Clinton and the year she was teaching at the University of Arkansas law school in Fayetteville.

She was 27 then, she said, and the Marine recruiter was about 21. She was interested in joining either the active forces or the reserves, she recalled, but was swiftly rebuffed by the recruiter, who took a dim view of her age and her thick glasses. ‘Not Very Encouraging’

“You’re too old, you can’t see and you’re a woman,” Mrs. Clinton said she was told, adding that the recruiter dismissed her by suggesting she try the Army. “Maybe the dogs would take you,” she recalled the recruiter saying.

“It was not a very encouraging conversation,” she said. “I decided maybe I’ll look for another way to serve my country.”

1975 was the year after I joined the Army – all of the services were taking anyone they could get at that time – as long as her vision was correctable to 20/20, she was under 35, she was fair game to recruiters – and a law school degree would have made her eligible for OCS – a recruiter would’ve broke his neck trying to get her paperwork in order – it was even before urinanalysis – she’d have been a shoe-in. So, like every other story she’s told trying to give her some credibility – it’s a lie.

So when is Clinton going to start serving her country? Letting Gloria Steinhem attack the military from Clinton’s stage isn’t a good way to start. Demeaning John McCain’s years as a POW is a poor substitute for Hillary’s lack of service to her country.

Oh, and just because Hillary Clinton hasn’t been trained to kill that doesn’t mean she’s not responsible for any deaths. Just another reason her 3AM phone call ad gives me chills.

Bob Parks at Outside the Wire quotes Steinem in another interview;

In an interview with the New York Observer, Steinem added,

… from George Washington to Jack Kennedy and PT-109 we have behaved as if killing people is a qualification for ruling people.

See, there’s her problem, right there – she doesn’t understand the concept of a representative Republic. Since when have the American people chose someone they want to “rule” us? Unfortunately for Gloria (and Hillary, for that matter) Americans want someone to lead us and there’s no better place to prove that you can lead people in distressing times than in military.

That’s why George McClellan didn’t get elected.

Category: John McCain/Sarah Palin, Politics