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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
this is such a non-issue. Clinton lied and draft dodged and it didn't hurt him
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Wrong. People like you continue to call him a "draft-dodger" (though he didn't do anything illegal as that label connotes; he just remained a student. Maybe if his daddy could have gotten him into the National Guard like Bush's did, he would've behaved differently.)
To some small fraction of people, this rap may well have affected their view of Clinton, as opposed to merely confirming their views.
And, similarly, I expect that this will affect Bush with some small portion of the electorate, and that Kerry will be able to make the "chicken-hawk" label stick. You remember the way Dan Quayle cringed when Al Gore mentioned his (certainly non-heroic) service in Vietnam?
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