Another dingbat Democrat spouting nonsense.

Iowa Senator Tom Harkin told Iowa reporters last week that Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s family history of military service makes him unfit to be comander-in-chief. Senator Harkin said that McCain’s background as the son and grandson of Navy admirals creates a “dangerous” situation because he can only view the world from a military perspective. To quote Senator Harkin:

He has a hard time thinking beyond that. I think he’s trapped in that. Everthing is looked at from his life experiences, from always having been in the military, and I think that can be be pretty dangerous.

Senator Harkin is also quoted by the Des Moines Register as saying:

It’s one thing to have been drafted and served, but another thing when you come from generations of military people and that’s just how you’re teeped, how you’ve learned, how you’ve grown up.

Amazingly stupid words from an amazingly stupid man. The only President not to have served in the military was Bill Clinton, another Democrat. Neither Barak Obama or Hillary Clinton have any military service either. I am starting to see a pattern here of Democrats who have never served in the military. The funny thing about Senator Harkin’s statements is that he served in the military himself. But what angers me more than what Senator Harkin said about McCain’s service to his country is the fact that Senator Harkin lied about his own military service record. It took the Wall Street Journal to reveal that Senator Harkin had embellished his own military record by saying that he had flown combat air patrols and photo reconnaissance missions in Vietnam. Turns out he was actually ferrying damaged aircraft between repair stations in Japan and the Phillipines. Senator Harkin should have been run out of town on a rail for denegrating all veterans with lies like that. And then he has the gall to make this pathetic attack on a man who served his country in combat and spent 5 years in a North Vietnamese prison after he was shot down.

National Review editor Rich Lowry said. “It’s perverse. He has this family history of serving the country in the most risk-taking way possible, and that somehow disqualifies you to be president of the United States? That’s insane.” All I can add to that is Amen, brother.