The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Nephythys

Kerry is a fvckin idiot who can't take responsiblity for his own words

Yeah you doofus- it's a Republican smear to point out that you are an insulting gasbag.

God he is loathsome.

And he didn't do that well at Yale, which I guess is why he wound up in Viet Nam. Unlike . . . well the list on both sides of the aisle is endless.

While he was making a questionable joke, I think he touched on the very real ambivalence that people with educational ambitions harbor about dangerous working class jobs. Whether it's the military, building bridges or collecting the garbage, we respect the people who do them while at the same time urging our children to get an education so they don't have to do them.

I think that while some people certainly say they join to serve their country, most join for want of other opportunity, a limitation that is often due to educational failings. The military today is what the clergy was for the second sons of 19th century literature.