Biden's draft deferments equal Cheney's during Vietnam War

Foreign relations is not national security and this isn't six degrees of separation. My brother had asthma and he ended up in Da Nang.

I actually filled a “Draft Quota” from Scranton and have often wondered how Biden avoided Military Service despite being of ideal age during the Vietnam era? Biden graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965, just as the war began to escalate intensively and would have been exposed to the draft. Instead, he attended law school (at Syracuse University) graduating in 1968-- the very height of the war and the Vietnam draft but somehow continued to avoid service by applying for five separate deferments. Although in his best-selling memoir published last year, "Promises to Keep," Biden recounted his active childhood, working as a lifeguard and excelling at high school football, he never mentions asthma but he now claims that “during the Vietnam War, he got a draft notice but flunked the physical due to asthma.” Having been Drafted and Inducted into the Army in June 1967 in Wilkes-Barre, the Armed Forces Entrance and Examination Station for Northeast Pennsylvania including his “hometown” of Scranton, I have a little first hand knowledge on how physicals were conducted. I had three disqualifying features detected during my Draft Physical including a “loose knee” from a wrestling injury that should have been surgically corrected. Instead of being disqualified, the doctor stamped my Physical “Waiver” but did warn me to “be careful with the knee in Vietnam so it didn’t dislocate again!” I was inducted later that afternoon and ended up serving an extended tour in Vietnam. I guess I might have “Taken Biden’s Place” in the War but never got so much as a thank-you from him! Then again, my circumstance might have been a little different than Biden's. When I was drafted my father and brother (who suffered with terrible asthma for his entire 24 year military career) were active duty military officers, and my mother and four uncles were WWII combat veterans. Being found "unfit for service" would have been too embarrassing. Then again, some people have no shame so can’t be embarrassed. I remember how Senator (and Medal of Honor recipient) Bob Kerrey put it in 1992 when he said “as I remember it, at that time if you could walk and chew gum, the military would take you.” Wonder how much Joe whined during his physical? Former Virginia Governor, current Senate candidate and Democrat Convention Keynote speaker Mark Warner was quoted in the 26 August Washington Post as saying: “(Biden) has real-world grass-roots, blue-collar appeal. He can go into a VFW hall or Kiwanis Club meeting and ….” He might be able to go into a Kiwanis Club but he definitely has NOT earned the right to enter a VFW Hall! Then again, maybe Biden is a Military expert! He displayed a phenomenal ability to avoid a military conflict, especially when it posed personal danger to himself.

What hypocrites the Democrats are. Same deferments as Cheney? Well, well well.... Asthma mentioned no where else? And for those who don't know, Martin Luther KIng, Jr. was a Republican.

Wow what exemplary leadership! I'm glad to know the VP is behind the military....way, way behind. I spent 20 years as an military physician, loved every minute of it. I deployed to war, broke my neck exiting a C-141 one day. I live in pain every day. When I volunteered for airborne school en route to my airborne brigade I hid my inhaler for asthma in my pocket so the blackhats wouldn't see it. I guess the VP never thought about doing that huh. Like Patton said, you can lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way. At least the VP got out of the way. AATW!