buttigieg also trashed the current president for faking disability to the vietnam. only bad people avoided the vietnam draft. that s the democratic position now. don t tell joe biden. he got the same deferments that trump did. don t tell bernie sanders. there s a larger question here. as peter van buren pointed out, if trump s military record is fair game, so is pete buttigieg s. and here is the truth. he did all of six months in 2014 as a rubber as a reservist deep inside bogram airfield. locked and loaded inside a toyota land cruiser. it s unlikely he had a cold meal in afghanistan. mayor pete is milking his service politically stretching his short tour into civic
attribute some complex knowledge some wisdom based on a relatively short time in a nonposition in afghanistan is pushing things just little too far. especially when he turns that against donald trump while ignoring that joe biden after multiple deferments same number that dick cheney got, joe biden was found one not to go to vietnam because of his teenage asthma. if bone spurs and asthma doesn t share a nudge in the medical direction. tucker: so many questions. i thought not serving in vietnam can the left for my whole life has told us was an ill legitimate war we couldn t win. since when did not serving in vietnam, like bill clinton or joe biden, become disqualifying? it s very interesting. as you point out, bill clinton made extensive efforts to avoid
his work is honorable and we applaud him. but at the same time, to try to attribute some complex knowledge, some wisdom based on a relatively short time in a nonposition in afghanistan is pushing things just little too far. especially when he turns that against donald trump while ignoring that joe biden after multiple deferments same number that dick cheney got, joe biden was found not to go to vietnam because of his teenage asthma. if bone spurs and asthma doesn t share a nudge in the medical dictionary, then i m not sure where they do belong together. tucker: so many questions. i thought not serving in vietnam, which the left for my whole life has told us was an illegitimate war we couldn t win. since when did not serving in vietnam, like bill clinton or joe biden, become disqualifying?
serving in vietnam up to including possibly to renounce his american citizenship at the u.s. embassy in london. bill clinton refuse to talk about those things. he was elected to the white house. in 1992 new york times ran an editorial talking about the dishonorable war in vietnam and how choosing not to serve in that war was almost a marker of morality as on th opposed something negative. when it comes to time to criticize donald trump, pete buttigieg is quick to pull those things out from the history books and talk about angsts out of complex while ignoring that joe biden got the same deferments, dick cheney, george bush and mitt romney. at the same time refusing to ask questions of his current generation including aoc about why they didn t serve when the opportunity to volunteer was in front of them.
president for faking disability to the vietnam. only bad people avoided the vietnam draft. that s the democratic position now. don t tell joe biden. he got the same deferments that trump did. don t tell bernie sanders. there s a larger question here. is peter van buren point the out, if trump s military record is fair game, so is pete buttigieg s. he dilled all of six months in 2014 as a reservist deep inside bogram airfield. locked and loaded inside a toyota land cruiser. it s unlikely he had a cold meal in afghanistan. mayor pete is milking his service politically stretching his short tour into civic