Records detail Biden’s draft deferment

[DogPoundPup]

DOVER, Del. | Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden received five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War, the same number as Vice President Dick Cheney, and later was disqualified from service because of asthma.

Officials with Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s campaign released Biden’s Selective Service records at the request of The Associated Press.

According to the documents, Biden, 65, received deferments while he was an undergraduate at the University of Delaware and as a law student at Syracuse University.

A month after undergoing a physical exam in April 1968, Biden received a Selective Service classification of 1-Y, meaning he was available only in the event of national emergency, “because of asthma as a teenager,” said David Wade, a campaign spokesman.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/776181.html

[TheDebbieDee]

1. Here's the thing for us vets to remember: While Biden may have

five deferments, he has never actively championed going to war! Whereas Cheney's dick gets hard at the thought involving the country in another war...........

[depakid]

3. "he has never actively championed going to war!" ???

I wish that were sarcasm....

[TheDebbieDee]

27. Enlighten me, oh wise one! On what occasions

did Sen. Biden push the country toward war? Honestly. I'd like to know when.

[cliffordu]

30. I think I detect a bit of a smear coming from that one.....

[kestrel91316]

2. AP wants to know why he hasn't "served his country"? What tools.

Asthma is a very serious disease. I suppose now they'll try to claim he never really had it.

[whistler162]

4. in 1977 when I graduated from high school

I looked in to joining the Air Force and they didn't really want me becasue of asthma and allergies in my youth. Interestingly next year my brother joined the Air Force and he had asthma and allergies as bad or worse than I did.

[Left Is Write]

11. And why doesn't three decades in the Senate count as "serving his country"?

[kestrel91316]

18. If you're not in uniform killing "gooks" or "ragheads", you're not serving

according to these freaks.

[AuntPatsy]

12. Can someone remind me how are current prez and vp actually served?

and riding around in a borrowed jet a time or two while drunk as a skunk before going to party in No's on sats does not count as serving this country.

[K8-EEE]

16. Yeah like they every asked PRO-WAR CHENEY!!!

Come on it's not like Joe has a hard on for every dumbass war like the BushCo chickenhawks.

[ben_meyers]

5. Asthma as a teenager?

Jesus H Christ, When they drafted my ass they were taking anything warm and breathing! Hell I showed up with high bp and a hangover from a 3 week pre-induction bender and woke up at Fort Leonard Wood, that was in '66.

[cliffordu]

6. As an OFFICIAL VETERAN (tm) I am PERSONALLY ABSOLVING Sen. Biden

of any REAL or IMAGINED SIN from getting his deferments.

The world is a much better place since his life has worked out like it has.

[LynneSin]

7. Joe Biden came from a blue collar family - he had no one to pull strings for him

He was going to college and his first child Beau came in 1969. His deferrments were legitimate and as another posted stated Biden is not a warhawk like these repukes are.

[AlCzervik]

20. Thank you.

[Unsane]

8. Ron Fournier's AP in action!

[Cha]

9. Good for him..not getting his ass

blown up in the horrible ugly fucking war, VietNam.

My husband at the time got deferred because we had babies..and now I hear he was for bush and now mccain.:nuke:

[Undercurrent]

10. Good for him!

My first husband was a Vietnam vet. He was emotionally destroyed by PTSD, and later physically destroyed by rhabdomyosarcoma (a deadly soft tissue sarcoma) from his exposure to Agent Orange.

So for me, any man who was able to avoid being drafted into that horrendous, and immoral meat grinder called the Vietnam war has my respect.

[Diane R]

13. Asthma is a legitimate excuse.

[Thothmes]

32. Depends on severety.

I had it and was accepted for service. My was mild and could truthfully say that it never limited anything. But I was enlisting and they often looked the other way for enlistees. Also had flat feet but they waived that also.

[gateley]

14. Wasn't being a college student a deferment? Or am I mis-remembering? nt

[Muttocracy]

23. far as I know that's what kept my dad out of Vietnam - he was in grad school and

teaching. My sister was also a newborn, but I don't know if that affected things? :shrug:

[WinkyDink]

35. Yes, both. Not what plain "college" referred to.

[WinkyDink]

34. Not in 1971, it wasn't. Nixon started the "birthdate" drafting.

[1corona4u]

15. And your point is?

I have asthma. It's hard to do a lot of things when you have asthma.

[DogPoundPup]

19. I only posted it for everyones info ... I didn't know. Did you before you read it?

I am not slamming him in way, shape or form.

[1corona4u]

21. See, here's the thing....

when people on this board, post things like that, we just feed the freepers. We make it easier for them to find things to attack us over. Sometimes, you just have to make a decision as to whether or not something belongs on this board. I could have lived without knowing this, as I'm sure many others could have too.

We need to stop and think before we just post willy nilly. That's my thought anyway. And, yes, there are a TON of things I have known, and not posted on this board, for this very reason. I'm not doing the homework for the freepers!

[DogPoundPup]

22. Here's another thing...IT'S AN A/P story ... as if it's going to be a secret?

Please don't preach to me what to post. Had I posted in latest breaking news, then you MIGHT have had the right to bitch me out.

[1corona4u]

24. I'm not "bitching you out", I just said, think before you post.

It's a reasonable request.

[DogPoundPup]

25. I do think before I post, thank you very much. And why are you so offended again? It's A/P news!

Or did you address that and I mised it?

[ben_meyers]

26. O Please! It was released by the Obama campaign

it's an AP article from a Kansas City paper and its been on Drudge all day and your worried about freepers finding it here?

[1corona4u]

28. Yeah, you're right.

There have been so many lunatic post on this board for the last 2 days. I'm sure that will keep them busy for a while.:sarcasm:

[ben_meyers]

31. Ya got that right!

[ben_meyers]

29. To ease your mind

Here is the post at FR

Joe Biden used 5 deferments to keep out of Vietnam
AP ^ | August 31, 2008 | RANDALL CHASE

Posted on Sunday, August 31, 2008 11:41:54 AM by Joiseydude

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071911/posts

I think they're on to us!

[jillan]

17. Well at least it wasn't for a boil on his butt like that asshole Rush.

[WinkyDink]

33. Now let's check Cheney's.