Why aren't Presidents Required to Serve in the Military to be President?

[Billiejeens]

“Why aren't Presidents Required to Serve in the Military to be President?”​

Shit, if the Left had it their way they’d require presidents be anti military illegal foreign trannies.

Sad, but clearly true.

 

[Billiejeens]

Actually, the post-World War II draft ended in 1973. All men over the age of 18 were required to register for the draft, most by far never served.

Ignore that twatt - she is just stupid on the grandest of levels.

 

[struth]

Here we just had a totally different type of Coup
But a Coup is still a Coup

true…the obamagate coup, or attempted coup was done by law enforcement types not the military

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Maybe they can add an addendum declaring that anyone with bonespurs can serve in some capacity. No more notes from Daddy's Dr. who rents office space from the old man claiming little Johnny footsie is a hurtin' the poor thing.

My wife had bone spurs and was basically unable to walk for months. Physical therapy helped but only to reduce the pain. After a while, bone spurs simply disappear.

 

[BrokeLoser]

Maybe they can add an addendum declaring that anyone with bonespurs can serve in some capacity. No more notes from Daddy's Dr. who rents office space from the old man claiming little Johnny footsie is a hurtin' the poor thing.

Did the Kenyan serve?
Serving in Kenya doesn’t count.

 

[Mr Natural]

Did the Kenyan serve?
Serving in Kenya doesn’t count.

Did St Trumpy serve?

No, He would have had to get haircut to serve.

 

[FA_Q2]

In the book, "Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein, he describes a future society where only persons who have served in the military have voting rights.

The idea is, that unless someone has demonstrated his willingness to potentially put his life on the line for society can that person participate in the governing of that society.

The book was written in 1951, only six years after the end of World War II. Most people in the US had recently served in the military or were the family of someone who did.

And the book was a direct critique on an American style Fascism.

 

[FA_Q2]

The movie and the book were substantially different. They only thing the two really had in common were the title.

And the underlying point.

The movie, even if it was utterly unable to follow the story of the books, was trying to stay close to the political narrative.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Yes we were.
First of all we had illegally limited Japan's military size, forced all of the trade partners of Japan into bad deals, and then we cut off Japan from the iron, oil, coal, and food it needed.
As for December 7, 1941, it was the US that fired the first shots.
The USN Ward Destroyer sank a Japanese minisub early in the morning, many hours before the Japanese attack.
That means the claim it was a "sneak attack" was a lie.
We had decoded all the messages and knew exactly when and where, and deliberately allowed the attack to take place.

Lies, lies, and more lies.

Take your revisionist history and shove it.

The Japanese minisub was trying to sneak into Pearl Harbor. How is that not a sneak attack?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Did St Trumpy serve?

No, He would have had to get haircut to serve.

Hey stupid! Trump went to a military school before college.

 

[Mr Natural]

Hey stupid! Trump went to a military school before college.

Big fuckin’ deal!

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Big fuckin’ deal!

I am sure they had haircuts.

I am fairly certain that you would not have, being a chrome dome!

You can't even follow your own comments.

 

[Couchpotato]

Did St Trumpy serve?

No, He would have had to get haircut to serve.

The last President to serve on active duty was the first Bush, but Jr was at least in the National Guard. The other 4 never served a day.

 

[Unkotare]

Why aren't presidents required to have worked as a mailman, a teacher, an accountant, a professor of constitutional law, a construction worker, or a physician's assistant?

 

[Osiris-ODS]

What kind of revisionist history have you been reading? The JN25 codebook we cracked didnt happen until just before Midway.

There have been claims that the Brit’s had cracked the codes used before Pearl Harbor and that Churchill intentionally kept it from FDR to draw the US into the war, but the US didn’t know the attack was coming.

but all that is irrelevant as there is no law or statute that would preclude the US from engaging in a purely aggressive war so long as the Congress votes and authorizes it. I’m not really sure where you got the idea that we couldn’t.

Rigby writes up some rather insane notions on the regular, so I'd expect nothing less from him on this occasion.

 

[Clipper]

Did the Kenyan serve?
Serving in Kenya doesn’t count.

No he didn't. And there was no draft at the time.

Now back to Trump. Did the poor thing ever remember which foot it was that was bothering him?

 

[Couchpotato]

Why aren't presidents required to have worked as a mailman, a teacher, an accountant, a professor of constitutional law, a construction worker, or a physician's assistant?

The idea being that the individual has shown that they are willing to sacrifice and serve something greater than themselves. That was Heinlen’s point and the point here I think. It wouldn’t necessarily have to be the military its just used because we don't have any other conduit for that type of service. That's a judgement on the merits of it but that's the difference between a military service requirement vs mailman or carpenter.

 

[Couchpotato]

No he didn't. And there was no draft at the time.

Now back to Trump. Did the poor thing ever remember which foot it was that was bothering him?

You should ask the current President he has one more deferment than the guy you're obsessed with.

 

[Unkotare]

The idea being that the individual has shown that they are willing to sacrifice and serve something greater than themselves. .....

And the people in those other professions don't do that?

 

[FA_Q2]

[/QUOTE]

And the people in those other professions don't do that?

Not really.

The commitment is not really the same. You have to give up some pretty fundamental things to join the military. Things no other profession can legally require.


None of those things prepares a person for the presidency though.