But by all means, keep posting – it’s important moderate voters clearly understand the depravity and dickness of the GreedOverPrinciples base, epitomized by you.

Intuitively I know that has to be true WMD. Which is why honorable Democrats should be outraged when dirtballs like John Kerry, Jesse MacBeth and 2punk tommy lie about their supposed service records.

But given the record of the Democrat party and it’s anti-American wing, it is completely reasonable to assume that any Dem that speaks out against the US military under cover of their own supposed service is just another liar.

MON….absolutely. Each side has their less agreeable sorts. Having many Republicans in my family, I do try to get along and understand what makes each person tick. We can disagree.

There are bomb throwers on both sides.

Definitely shouldn’t have canceled the event in that case but should have rescheduled to an evening and invited parents to come with their kids. Definitely over reaction on the side of the protesting parents (there will always be protesting parents – no matter what the question) and by the school (cancel the event rather than seek a satisfactory compromise).

Chestnut,

Recruiting numbers are in the toilet without signing bonuses up the wazoo. Military.com will even back that up.

“Vets for Freedom is a nonpartisan organization established by combat veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Our mission is to educate the American public about the importance of achieving success in these conflicts by applying our first-hand knowledge to issues of American strategy and tactics in Iraq.

We support policymakers from both sides of the aisle who have stood behind our great generation of American warriors on the battlefield, and who have put long-term national security before short-term partisan political gain.

Vets for Freedom is the largest Iraq and Afghanistan veterans organization in America.”

I don’t see recruiting mentioned anywhere, but I agree with you that parents should be seeing this group speak also.

JHC… this is why none of us take any of you hand-wringing clowns very seriously.

BTW — recruitment numbers also aren’t nearly as bad as you liars make them out to be.

“As a veteran, I was against this group of veterans going into a public high school and speaking about military service. ”

but now sez:

” I think it would be beneficial for kids to actually see and hear from our troops about the reality on the ground.”

Glad to see you come around and change your mind.

Actually, Dems I know do work for a living. Frankly, indies I know work, too. So do the GOP’ers I know. I don’t personally know anyone who doesn’t work who isn’t elderly and retired. It’s my world. What’s yours look like?

Pete, pretty sad if that’s the truth. Sometimes the right to protest gets in the way of not what can happen but what should. I think it would be beneficial for kids to actually see and hear from our troops about the reality on the ground. Yes, it’s terrifying to live in a war zone and the threat is real but so is the work that our troops are doing with the communities over there to help rebuild their society. Both sides of the story complete the story and should be told.

No clue, honestly. I would agree with you if that’s what they were asking to do. If they were out there recruiting, I’d disagree with them.”

… So, WMD has relied only on his extreme ignorance when forming a strong opinion to oppose this appearance of veterans discussing their experiences.

Figures. Typical liberal. So fucking outraged, he has know idea about what.

I’ll still be laughing tomorrow.

Next, WMD cites as an egregious lie, a claim that a recruiter told a recruit that he could get in to the military band. Oh the humanity. What next, they’ll start telling the recruits that food at basic training is 5-stars?

What a fucking joke.

Over here in the East Metro of Saint Paul, most Dems I know are retired, aging hippies with too much free time on their hands. They are the ones who provide the Dems with reliable foot soldiers.

That they did not go to the Franken event probably speaks volumes (in negative tones) about Franken’s campaign.

It’s up to you to believe that others have or have not served. I can’t change your mind for you. It might shock you to know there are many Dems who are veterans and not all are leftwing wingnuts. There’s a huge middle…..

You can thank fellow Democrat frauds like John Kerry, Jesse MacBeth, 2punk Tommy and many, many more for that.

As far as we know, the closest you ever came to a military facility was your best bottle throwing distance. You’re just another anti-American moonbat out here trashing our troopers.

Take it over to MNPublius.

Unfortunately for you, I’m not bitter. I’m a very proud veteran. My father is a military retiree after serving 25 years and my father in law served 30.

I still have issues with students being recruited in public schools unless the students come to the recruiter. Currently in most schools the system is the same for military recruitment as it is for college and trade school recruitment and I think that’s very fair. Students seeking post-high school options go to the recruiting meetings and find out what options are available. That’s the way it should be.

As to schools, you’ll probably find me much tougher on schools than you would imagine. I am constantly arguing that our public schools are failing our students – and not for a lack of money or class size. That’s the biggest strawman in the whole game. Our problem is a failure to demand excellence and to teach in depth and to hold students to standards that will allow them to excel in higher education. Our public schools are exactly why the US ranks 17 out of 21 in math and science education in the latest TIMMS study. If parents don’t take the reins on their children’s educations, they will be left behind and their options will narrow dramatically post-high school. I have had this argument for years with friends and acquaintances who teach for a living. There is a huge disconnect between what teachers and school systems think is necessary to succeed in higher education and what college and university professors require to succeed. Unfortunately the funding and accountability system we have right now does not demand that public schools be held accountable for how their product meets the needs of the university system. If it did, we’d see massive changes in public education requirements.

Also, I do NOT support birth control or abortion information in public schools. Supporting choice is not about supporting abortion and definitely not about supporting access to abortion and birth control without parental consent under 18. Supporting choice has to do with WHO makes the choices in life – not just over abortion – but over birth control for unmarried women (over 18), hospice care and palliative care, end of life decisions, too.

It’s the GOP that needs to stop feeding people talking points.

Given the pathetic failure that is public education today, the military is all too often the last best chance a student has to succeed in life.

My God, first they steal a kid’s education, then cut a genuine opportunity to overcome that theft off at the knees..is there any bottom to the Democrat moral pit?

So you know for a fact that recruiters are lying. Wow, that’s a very damaging allegation. Why haven’t you forwarded your facts to the liberal media? I am certain they would be very interested that the military is lying to our children so Bush can sent the off to war and use them as cannon fadder.

Again, I could be wrong but I thought that paying business fines that are unrelated to a campagn out of those campaign funds would be illegal. I thought they had to be related to the campaign.