Another Democrat off to War = Another Republican Mocking Him Safely From Home
Add Alex Cornell du Houx of Bowdoin College to the list of Democrats who have served their country.
Add Daniel Schuberth to the list of non-serving, pasty white Republican fat-asses who dishonor, discredit, and smear guys like Cornell du Houx on a daily basis.
For those not familiar with the near-Ivy League trifecta of Maine colleges known as Bowdoin, Colby and Bates, both Cornell du Houx and Schuberth attend Bowdoin, in my hometown of Brunswick Maine, which is known for it’s fancy book-learnin’ in Liberal Arts studies.
The Times Record of Brunswick recently published an article on Cornell du Houx who has a not so conflicting duality:
He is being deployed to Iraq for approximately 10 months as part of the Alpha 1st Company Battalion of the Marines; He is also the development director for the College Democrats of America and as co-president of the Maine College Democrats, and an outspoken opponent of the very war he’s heading off too.
The reason why this isn’t as conflicting as the corporate media would have you believe is that those on the Left have understood for decades that:
-It’s possible to love your country, and not support everything your president says and does.
-You can support your military and the troops that serve in it while not supporting the war they're fighting
-It is easy to understand that supporting the troops includes never sending kids to war unless there is an imminent threat, and keeping them there once said threat is proven to be nonexistent actually disavows them.
-It is easy to do all of the above when you are against any war in which you have friends, family, coworkers, and even yourself serving.
Daniel Schuberth does not understand any of the points listed above.
He is a college Republican, which means that he thinks talking about supporting the troops, or purchasing a yellow ribbon magnet for his car at Wal-Mart for $1.99 is in fact, support enough.
Of Cornell du Houx, Mr. Yellow Ribbon had this to say:
This bothers me on so many levels, it’s taking all I can do right now to type this rather than get in my car, drive 25 miles north, and hog tie this asshole to the hot dog cart downtown so seagulls can shit on him all day while my old high school buddies see how many American flag pendants
they can pin to his fat ass.
What people like Schuberth who say things like this from the comfort of their 72 degree, carpeted dorm room don’t realize is that putting a flag magnet on your car is literally the least you can do.
His words would not enrage so many people if the recurring pattern of juvenile Patriot Policing and More-America-Loving-Than-Thou finger pointing wasn’t so persistent within the Republican party, especially from the following non-serving Patriots on the Right:
Vice President Cheney - several deferments (1, 2), the last by marriage (in his own words, "had other priorities than military service")
Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott - avoided the draft, did not serve.
Tom Delay - avoided the draft, did not serve
Jeb Bush - did not serve.
Karl Rove - avoided the draft, did not serve
Paul Wolfowitz – did not serve
Former Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft - received seven deferments to teach business education
Newt Gingrich – avoided the draft, did not serve
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - did not serve
Former Vice President Dan Quayle - avoided Vietnam service, got a slot in the journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard when the unit was at 150% capacity
Rush Limbaugh – Did not serve due to a 'pilonidal cyst'
Michael Savage (aka Michael Alan Weiner) - did not serve, too busy chasing herbs and botany degrees in Hawaii and Fiji
Bill O’Reilly – avoided the draft, despite being the perfect age and single.
Sean Hannity – did not serve
Ralph Reed -- did not serve
Charlie Daniels -- did not serve
Ted Nugent -- did not serve
And you can see the entire lists here, and again here, and don’t forget here.
Add Daniel Schuberth to the list of non-serving, pasty white Republican fat-asses who dishonor, discredit, and smear guys like Cornell du Houx on a daily basis.
For those not familiar with the near-Ivy League trifecta of Maine colleges known as Bowdoin, Colby and Bates, both Cornell du Houx and Schuberth attend Bowdoin, in my hometown of Brunswick Maine, which is known for it’s fancy book-learnin’ in Liberal Arts studies.The Times Record of Brunswick recently published an article on Cornell du Houx who has a not so conflicting duality:
He is being deployed to Iraq for approximately 10 months as part of the Alpha 1st Company Battalion of the Marines; He is also the development director for the College Democrats of America and as co-president of the Maine College Democrats, and an outspoken opponent of the very war he’s heading off too.
The reason why this isn’t as conflicting as the corporate media would have you believe is that those on the Left have understood for decades that:
-It’s possible to love your country, and not support everything your president says and does.
-You can support your military and the troops that serve in it while not supporting the war they're fighting
-It is easy to understand that supporting the troops includes never sending kids to war unless there is an imminent threat, and keeping them there once said threat is proven to be nonexistent actually disavows them.
-It is easy to do all of the above when you are against any war in which you have friends, family, coworkers, and even yourself serving.
Daniel Schuberth does not understand any of the points listed above.
He is a college Republican, which means that he thinks talking about supporting the troops, or purchasing a yellow ribbon magnet for his car at Wal-Mart for $1.99 is in fact, support enough.
Of Cornell du Houx, Mr. Yellow Ribbon had this to say:
“I find it troubling, however, that one of the most vocal opponents of our president, our country and our mission in Iraq has chosen to fight for a cause he claims is wrong…[His] rhetoric against the war on terror places him in agreement with the most radical fringes of the Democratic Party, and I am left to question his logic and motivation."
This bothers me on so many levels, it’s taking all I can do right now to type this rather than get in my car, drive 25 miles north, and hog tie this asshole to the hot dog cart downtown so seagulls can shit on him all day while my old high school buddies see how many American flag pendants
they can pin to his fat ass.What people like Schuberth who say things like this from the comfort of their 72 degree, carpeted dorm room don’t realize is that putting a flag magnet on your car is literally the least you can do.
His words would not enrage so many people if the recurring pattern of juvenile Patriot Policing and More-America-Loving-Than-Thou finger pointing wasn’t so persistent within the Republican party, especially from the following non-serving Patriots on the Right:
Vice President Cheney - several deferments (1, 2), the last by marriage (in his own words, "had other priorities than military service")
Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott - avoided the draft, did not serve.
Tom Delay - avoided the draft, did not serve
Jeb Bush - did not serve.
Karl Rove - avoided the draft, did not serve
Paul Wolfowitz – did not serve
Former Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft - received seven deferments to teach business education
Newt Gingrich – avoided the draft, did not serve
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - did not serve
Former Vice President Dan Quayle - avoided Vietnam service, got a slot in the journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard when the unit was at 150% capacity
Rush Limbaugh – Did not serve due to a 'pilonidal cyst'
Michael Savage (aka Michael Alan Weiner) - did not serve, too busy chasing herbs and botany degrees in Hawaii and Fiji
Bill O’Reilly – avoided the draft, despite being the perfect age and single.
Sean Hannity – did not serve
Ralph Reed -- did not serve
Charlie Daniels -- did not serve
Ted Nugent -- did not serve
And you can see the entire lists here, and again here, and don’t forget here.
posted by Jeremy at 12:38 PM
11 Comments:
Very insightful post.
Also, Samuel Alito can now be added to the list. Raw Story has the full article.
What about Rumsfeld, did he serve?
I may have to link to this post.
Yeah I like this site.
Yes, great post. Peace IS indeed patriotic!!!
MJ -
To answer your question, Rummy did in fact serve - not in combat mind you - but as an instructor - I *believe* in flight school but I could be wrong (I'm just too lazy to look it up right now!)
What really surprised me is Paul W not serving...deputy to secretary of defense, one of the major architects of the Iraq mess...and I SWEAR I've seen him in fatigues once...never served.
And MJ...please feel free to link to this post, or as many as you'd like.
Bravo Jeremy. Well-put.
Let's not forget the millions of $$s Republicans spent attacking Gore's actual service history (while touting Bush's *service*). Or that when Bush was running against McCain, the Bush camp smeared McCain, saying that his service and POW experience rendered him too unstable to be president.
How this jackass got to be president is beyond me.
Evan - don't forget the purple heart bandages the Republicans actually HANDED OUT to the delegates at the RNC last years...because you know, getting wounded while fighting for your country is one big funny joke.
I'm very interested in knowing more about this Republican Schuberth person.
Is he aware that the military takes volunteers?
This Schuberth guy is ridiclous, and I'm pretty sure Danny's is still open.
MJ - just come visit my home town sometime and you can meet him. He'll be the one with the bumper sticker on his parents' SUV that says, "I'll fight for freedom."
KP - what I wouldn't give to run into this guy at Joshuas. I'm getting all bugged out just thinking about it.
Protests Over Cartoons Shake Alabama
Demonstrators Storm Democratic Enclave, Attack Liberal Businesses
By Bubbu Jones
Conservative Post, Southern Service
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Birmingham, Alabama, Feb. 14 -- Protesters ransacked Liberal businesses in the city of Montgomery and stormed a democratic enclave in the Tuesday to vent their anger over caricatures of the Dick Cheney. It was the worst such violence in Alabama since the cartoon controversy erupted last weekend.
Two protesters in were killed when they tried to force their way into a bank and were shot by a security guard, authorities said. Protesters in the historic southern city burned a hotel, two banks, and a KFC restaurant, the Associated Press reported. Tear gas and smoke from burning vehicles wafted through the center of the city as police fired shots in the air.
In Birmingham, the Alabama capital, hundreds of young men pushed past security guards and made their way into the heart of the main enclave for liberal embassies. They vandalized cars, smashed windows at a branch of the New York bank Standard Chartered and shouted slogans such as "Expel Liberals" and "Death to Dems”.
The mocking cartoons of Dick Cheney have aroused intense anger across the Conservative world, especially in the South, but Alabama until this week had avoided violent protests such as those that have roiled the capitals of Georgia and Mississippi. Disclaimer: The Conservative Post has obtained one of the cartoons and is publishing the cartoon for only journalistic reasons only.
Sen. Trent Lott, has strongly condemned the cartoons, and a number of peaceful protests have been held across his state. The protest campaign has included not just hard-line religious parties, whose leaders have called for prosecution of those responsible for the cartoons, but also mainstream secular parties. Earlier this week, the Southern Baptist Convention overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning the "blasphemous and derogatory cartoons." Religious leaders say they are planning a series of "million man" marches in major cities across the country in the next several weeks.
On Tuesday, Jerry Falwell told reporters that the publication of the cartoons had "created a big sense of unease," adding, "Such acts cannot be condoned and must be condemned and are in violation of Reagans 11th commandment “Thou shall not speak negatively about republicans”." Republican members of government from across the conservative political spectrum marched from the public buildings to the enclave to hold a five-minute silent protest.
Besides burning some businesses, protesters in Montgomery ransacked a McDonald's and a Pizza Hut and threw stones at a Holiday Inn and Liberal-owned filling stations, the Reuters news agency reported. Police responded by wielding batons and firing tear gas.
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