Comments on: The View From Denmark http://thomaslitchford.com/blog/2008/04/21/the-view-from-denmark/ Writing.Life Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:05:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: ja3 http://thomaslitchford.com/blog/2008/04/21/the-view-from-denmark/comment-page-1/#comment-5671 ja3 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:51:13 +0000 http://thomaslitchford.com/blog/2008/04/21/the-view-from-denmark/#comment-5671 It's sad that just after giggling at this, my normally dormant inner PoliSci geek takes over and thinks, "You know, in the last 50 or so years, being a war hero hasn't helped anyone become president ... in fact, I'd bet that with one or two exceptions, the candidate with the more impressive military resume has lost." This thought leads to way too much time spent on Wikipedia, learning that George McGovern was a B-24 pilot and that Jimmy Carter was the only veteran of the Korean war era elected president. Clearly, I need to increase my beer intake until that inner geek shuts up entirely. It’s sad that just after giggling at this, my normally dormant inner PoliSci geek takes over and thinks, “You know, in the last 50 or so years, being a war hero hasn’t helped anyone become president … in fact, I’d bet that with one or two exceptions, the candidate with the more impressive military resume has lost.”

This thought leads to way too much time spent on Wikipedia, learning that George McGovern was a B-24 pilot and that Jimmy Carter was the only veteran of the Korean war era elected president.

Clearly, I need to increase my beer intake until that inner geek shuts up entirely.

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