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WASHINGTON POST - Last week, Edwards sent a Web notice asking his
supporters to use the holiday to speak against the war. Paul Morin,
national commander of the American Legion, called the request "as
inappropriate as a political bumper sticker on an Arlington headstone."
Edwards also called Monday for spreading the burden of serving the
country by mandating national service. "One of the things we ought to
be thinking about is some level of mandatory service to our country, so
that everybody in America _ not just the poor kids who get sent to war _
are serving this country," he said. After the event, Edwards said he had
not meant to imply that only the poor go to war, only that everyone
should serve in some way.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/21/
AR2007052100866_2.html?referrer=digg
THIS IS THE BIGGEST error so far in the Edwards campaign. Fortunately
for him, it hasn't attracted a lot of attention, but if it does he will
not only lose support of the young but of those who can't imagine being
placed in involuntary servitude to fulfill the evil goals of a George
Bush or who see government as a servant of the people rather than the
other way around. The idea that one owes service to an institution as
corrupt, undemocratic and cruel as the present US government defies
rational justification.
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WASHINGTON POST - Last week, Edwards sent a Web notice asking his
supporters to use the holiday to speak against the war. Paul Morin,
national commander of the American Legion, called the request "as
inappropriate as a political bumper sticker on an Arlington headstone."
Edwards also called Monday for spreading the burden of serving the
country by mandating national service. "One of the things we ought to
be thinking about is some level of mandatory service to our country, so
that everybody in America _ not just the poor kids who get sent to war _
are serving this country," he said. After the event, Edwards said he had
not meant to imply that only the poor go to war, only that everyone
should serve in some way.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/21/
AR2007052100866_2.html?referrer=digg
THIS IS THE BIGGEST error so far in the Edwards campaign. Fortunately
for him, it hasn't attracted a lot of attention, but if it does he will
not only lose support of the young but of those who can't imagine being
placed in involuntary servitude to fulfill the evil goals of a George
Bush or who see government as a servant of the people rather than the
other way around. The idea that one owes service to an institution as
corrupt, undemocratic and cruel as the present US government defies
rational justification.
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