Si modo
Diamond Member
Firstly, I'm not hollering. Secondly, I have offered up the benefit of the doubt. If I do give that, it is bizarre that he is 'mistaken' about those events in his life.The fact that you felt the need to call him out as a liar for it means you are making a big deal of it.
I can understand mistaking when exactly you signed up for the selective service but not when you graduated from high school.
I am giving him the benefit of the doubt and you are hollering liar.
What he said, though, is not true. That makes it a lie or his being mistaken about important events in his personal life. Either of those possibilities is not very flattering in my book. But, he IS Obama and how DARE anyone point something like that out. I understand, so it's cool.
Yeah, yeah, the wicked important event of signing up for the selective service. Nobody EVER forgets the circumstances surrounding that.
And, Si, I'm on record calling the man a liar so this nonsense about "how DARE anyone point out blah, blah, blah..." falls a bit flat with me. The thing is I can tell the difference between a real lie and someone having a fuzzy recall of shit that happened 30 years ago.
OK. I'll take your word for it that you are not a pure apologist for him.
Now, although I don't usually give too many hints about my age, suffice it to say that Obama and I have a lot in common in that area. Big toasts at graduation parties from the guys included the fact that they did not have to sign up. And, it was HUGE news to the guys in college when they had to start. We spent our childhood watching draftees and others getting killed in Viet Nam. Just my personal experience from the time. Take it for what it is - an anecdote.
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