Nikon
This guy defines class. He is a classy guy.

Cherry Pop Culture
I hope the kids in his home state grow up and learn not to emulate him.

Binro the Heretic
What about the assholes applauding him?

SolRo
you'd end up using losing a vial of sarin gas.

Chalkdust
SolRo made the joke I was gonna make

SolRo
the only way to fix the problem is to go into the room with a machette. that way the only thing that would be lost is the sharpened edge, and that is easly fixed.

Camonk
SolRo, you gotta learn to go out on a high note. You only get one like once every six or seven years, so immediately stop and bow out, or you ruin it. Like this.

StanleyPain
Of course, when McCain was running for President we had to hear about his fucking military service every 10 minutes.

Cena_mark
Its kind of inevitable for a triple amputee. Its not like she can meet people without somebody asking about her lack of appendages.
This is worse than what swift boating of Kerry. Republicans are so willing to shit on the services if their guy doesn't have any military experience.

dead_cat
I've always wondered what would happen if two candidates with military service ran against each other.

SteamPoweredKleenex
Obviously not. The military's standards haven't dropped THAT low.

dead_cat
Of course not. Walsh didn't want to make the other veterans look terrible by out-heroing them all from his military desk job.

CornOnTheCabre
Republicans have always had the utmost respect for the ROLE of American soldiers.

They falter when it comes to actually caring about the human beings that play the part.

Rodents of Unusual Size
From the news today...

"In response to the Democratic criticism, Walsh issued a statement calling the controversy a "political ploy to distort my words and distract voters."

"Of course Tammy Duckworth is a hero," he said. "I have called her a hero hundreds of times."

He added, though, that most veterans he has met since entering Congress rarely talk about their service or combat experiences while "that is darn near all of what Tammy Duckworth talks about."

McCain, too, has been a target of Walsh, who last spring said voters elected Barack Obama because he was an African-American historic figure and added: "It helped that John McCain was about 142 years old." "

joelkazoo
It's more a case of Duckworth is missing 3 of her libs, thus it's more likely someone will ask her "what happened to you?" in comparison to a veteran who does have all their limbs, and can walk down the street undetected. My aunt's husband served 3 active tour of duties in Vietnam, and told absolutely nothing about it until her death 30 years later, not because he didn't want to talk about it, but because nobody bothered to ask him.

Robin Kestrel
Not all Americans, not even the majority, I'd say. But the worst of the right wingers just keep getting more and more extreme... to me its seems like they are about two steps away from being the Nazi party of the 21st century, yeah.