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Proud as I am of our military, in itself military service is not an indication of leadership potential.

As illustrated above, our WORST presidents (pre-Obama), Jimmy Carter and Lyndon Johnson (and Nixon?), were naval officers.

Conversely it is interesting to note that our BEST president was the only one since Buchanan to serve in the ENLISTED ranks: Ronald Reagan. He worked his way up to the officer corps.

Yup! Sad to see the current trend.

As bad as Carter was, he was a commissioned naval officer under the demanding Hyman G. Rickover in the fledgling nuclear submarine fleet at the time and he once went inside of a malfunctioning nuclear reactor at Chalk River with a protective suit on to help shut it down so I’ll say he at least had some balls on him.

Oba’Mao is light years ahead of Carter in suckitude.

What military uniform is Obeyme in? The Muslim Salvation Army band? I’ll bet he was the piccolo player.

Pappy Bush looking good in his Naval Aviator get up. He probably had the most dangerous job of them all. Fly low in a straight line at an enemy ship to drop a torpedo. Although he was shot down during a aerial bombing mission.

@plf5403 – I believe barry o played the upright organ.

@boobUS

Hey hero, in case nobody told you, Booosh is no longer President, you can stop reflexively kicking him now. You can stop, can’t you?

@plf5403

He was Florence of Arabia.

@ historicus

Well, whatever his position on the band was, I’m certain maintaining it involved a lot of lip service and pillow-biting.

Obama would have never been in a band.
You have to practice to learn an instrument and obama is to good for practice.

Unless it has to do with dicks, he’s not going to be into it and only his dick is the one practiced on.

teh won, is too high and mighty to be on his knees for anyone, but Muslim rulers… everyone else services barry.

obama= take,take,take,never give.

Once I again I must cast a vote for banning the name calling troll.

@ historicus – I dunno, we need the occasional pantswetting troll visitation.

If only to remind us why they’re losing…

@boobUS
If taken literally, there’s only one alleged cocksucker in the picture. If taken metaphorically, why are you so fixated on Booosh when there’s a new resident at #Occupy White House, during an election year who’s much more deserving of our attention?

I love it when the progtards try to say that GWB avoided military service….by joining the military.

Say what you want about George W Bush, at least he served his country.

Clinton and Obama only served themselves.

GWB was a hottie back then.

WTF is that turbanned getup anyway?

It’s hard to tell ever, what he means by anything he’s ever said, done or not done.

As though deeply involved in a perpetual game of pretend, we’re told by the media and reminded by the usurper himself, of how by not appreciating the level and nature of his intellect is where we fall short.

It is what it is, actually it’s crystal clear. Barack Hussein Obama and administration are working overtime getting done everything we’re seeing.

A scripted teleprompter tells us through his orations, what we’re in for; sometimes it gets a little cryptic and needs some decoding. When we think we heard things that make no sense, we did just hear it.

He reveals everything, everytime he speaks and acts. This man is no friend of Israel and never has been. His actions tell us better than words, especially now that he’s in re-election mode.

NObama2012!

I’m not a huge fan politically of either Bush 41 or Bush 43, but I like them both personally. GHW Bush was a carrier aviator, and the Avenger was, by many accounts, a tough aircraft to successfully recover on a carrier…so I give him points for guts I don’t have (I was a multi-engine pilot in the Air Force. If I didn’t have 10,000 feet of runway–give or take–I got a little antsy if the airspeed numbers on a takeoff run didn’t get high enough fast enough). GW Bush flew a true dog of an aircraft, the F-102, during his Air National Guard service. That aircraft had a nasty habit of reducing the life expectancies of lieutenants who were unfortunate enough to pilot it, so again, I give him serious points for guts. Gerald Ford was a flight deck officer, Nixon did his part, and so did Johnson. Carter at least was in…and we all know about Kennedy and Eisenhower.

I wouldn’t say that military service should be required to be president…Calvin Coolidge never served, and he did a very admirable job…and it also isn’t a real help (Harry Truman was an artillery officer in a Missouri National Guard unit during WWI. He saw combat in France, but while I’ll give him credit for working hard and doing his best as president, I can’t honestly call him a competent president. Blunt, outspoken, and essentially decent, maybe. Competent? Berlin Blokcade and Korean War are all I have to say to that). What matters most is character. Eisenhower, Reagan, both Bushes and Ford were men of character. Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Clinton and Obama were and are somewhat less so to varying degrees. Carter was a pussy and has since shown that he has the character of a teased rattlesnake…his antisemitism and self-righteousness prove that whatever good he may have done in the Navy is tainted by a malignant personality.

Rick Perry flew C-130′s while he was in the Air Force. Ron Paul was in the Air Force medical corps as a gynecologist. Just because they wore the same uniform that I did doesn’t mean they’d necessarily be good as president (okay, I’ll give an edge to Perry…but not because he flew Herks. Rather, because he’s not nuttier than squirrel shit). I’m certain that Michele Bachmann would be a good president, and I have no doubt Newt Gingrich would be better than competent, and neither of them ever wore the uniform. Newt was an Army brat, and Michele has good values. Romney and Huntsman might be nice guys, but their liberalism shows, to me anyway, a lack of character that disqualifies them from consideration.

I’d love it if a veteran could be elected president…especially a Vietnam veteran (and NO, NOT McCain)…but not all veterans are worthy (Lindsey Graham is a JAG officer in the Air Force Reserve, and I don’t want him anywhere NEAR the White House, let alone the Senate!). We’ve seen that with Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Carter. Perhaps we should also look at the candidate’s overall record…and if military service is there, consider the quality of that service (Kennedy wasn’t a bad commander, but he wasn’t a skilled one…Johnson was just a self-promoting politician when he was in the Navy…amd GW Bush was, at best, an average officer during his Air Guard service) as an element of their qualifications to be elected president. The fact that Clinton and Obama ran from military service (Obama had to practically have his arm twisted just to register with Selective Service!) shows me that they hsve no character and are unfit for the office they were elected to. Self-serving as he was, I’d still take Lyndon Johnson over B. Hussein Obama ANY DAY…and morally weak as he was, Richard Nixon was STILL ten times more honorable than Bill Clinton! Those two men were at least willing to place their country before their lives and put on the uniform.

I just wish that more office holders and office seekers DID wear the uniform…but if they didn’t, I hope they at least can show TRUE respect and TRUE appreciation for those who did. I DON’T see that from Sax-boy Clinton, or “Midnight Toker” Hussein. I DO see it on the other side…and that’s at least SOME relief.

@NM Gunman, great commentary!

@plf5403 and historicus, I heard he liked the skin flute.

George H. W. was 17 when he enlisted. He was the youngest member of his squadron, and the only survivor of their bomb run over Chicha Jima, the sister island to Iwo Jima. All the other members were killed, either shot down or captured, tortured and executed by the Japanese. The investigation by the US Navy after the war hushed up the incident for 50 years. The parents, wives, girlfriends never knew what happened to their loved ones. Just that they were missing.

A good book to read about it is ‘Flyboys’ by James Bradley. (He wrote ‘Flags Of Our Fathers’ about Iwo Jima and the men that raised the iconic flag; his father was one.)

Oh yeah. Didn’t LBJ get a Bronze Star for never flying in combat? Or something like that?

Obozo would have given him a ‘Courageous Restraint’ Medal.

Just think, if Teddy Kennedy would have made it to the presidency we could have a picture of a drunken Army private up there (just before his daddy pulled strings to get him ‘unenlisted’).