Mitt Romney Fondly Recalls French Vacations and the marvelous, REFRESHING lack of Viet Cong gunfire

[Amerigo Vespucci]

FUCK YOU, you cowardly piece of shit.

Mitt Romney Fondly Recalls French Vacations, Anticipates More

The Huffington Post | By Arthur Delaney Posted: 04/23/2012 1:52 pm Updated: 04/23/2012 4:20 pm



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/23/mitt-romney-france-trips_n_1446328.html

During a press conference in Pennsylvania on Monday, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney gushed about vacations in France and said he looked forward to visiting again.

"I have a lot memories of France," Romney said in response to a reporter's question. "The best memories were with my wife on vacations from time to time in France. The last vacation we had there, walking around the city of Paris and walking not just [on] the Champs-Élysées but also over to the Jardin of Luxembourg and around the city -- one of the most magnificent cities in the world. And I look forward to occasional vacations again in such a beautiful place."

Romney previously told the National Review that a president shouldn't take "elaborate vacations" in response to a question about the spending scandal at the General Services Administration.

"The example starts at the top," Romney said. "People have to see that the president is not taking elaborate vacations and spending in a way that is inconsistent with the state of the overall economy and the state of the American family." Starting in 1966, Romney spent 30 months in France as a Mormon missionary.

[Bozita]

1. Recommended for the spot-on accuracy of the OP title!

Nothing but blank pages in the book titled "The Rmoney Family History in The American Military."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. It sickens me.

I was born too young to serve in Vietnam. I had SHIT FITS about it, because it got REAL close. I HAD a draft card while the war was still active.

But if I'd been drafted, I would have served. I was fucking SCARED TO DEATH, but if the war had continued and the draft along with it, i would have served.

That's why I was scared to death about it. And it was over before my number came up.

So FUCK Mitt Romney. FUCK this cowardly silver spoon piece of shit.

[pinboy3niner]

22. The question is not whether or not you would have served

It is, rather, about those who supported the war and sending OTHER mothers' sons to die while doing everything they could to avoid serving and facing the same risks themselves.

There is a HUGE difference between draft dodgers who avoided service because they opposed the war, and chickenhawks who avoided serving while supporting the war.

[permatex]

29. This POS isn't even qualified to command a troop

of Boy Scouts!
While guys like us were ducking and dodging hostile fire from the VC and NVA, he was enjoying the good life in France. What a hypocrite.

U.S. Navy Corpsman
1st BN 26th Marines
RVN 1968-1969

[pinboy3niner]

31. Welcome to DU

And Welcome Home, Doc! Semper Fi from the Army.

Army platoon leader
2/501 Infantry, 101st Airborne Div.
RVN '69-'70

[permatex]

32. Thanks for the welcome

and welcome home brother. Some of those pics you posted sent shudders through me as I remember.

[dimbear]

17. Might find some in the list of combatants in the Utah War, on the enemy side:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_War

The Romneys were in the country at that time is all I actually know........

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. Draft dodger extraordinaire

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. MITT: "Not getting your ass blown off is c'est magnifique." n/t

[XemaSab]

5. Someone on here (and I don't remember who) shared the following joke:

Mitt's just like Eisenhower: as soon as the war started, he got to Paris as quickly as he could.

[era veteran]

24. LOL, Stolen

Will be used on my FB Group of Army tankers. I am constantly besieged with far right indoctrination. You can tell Rush, the draft dodger,was on AFN.

[freshwest]

6. Just peachy! You as POTUS? Over my rotting corpse, Sir!

Oh, did I say that out loud? Name that meme.

And Mittens, I do not want to pay for your next trip to France.

Kindly go home and help your wife with the dishes, now.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. The right-wing are now gong to vote for a French loving Republican?

I cannot keep up with their cardboard politics.

[Bozita]

8. Photos of a chickenhawk at Stanford while filing for deferments ...

That's Willard on the far right in the white slacks.

For more of Willard's "He's-just-like-us" background, visit:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1058120

[Amerigo Vespucci]

10. I've seen those photos. VOTERS need to see them.

Seriously/ We don't need a coward in the Oval Office. We've already tried it, and it didn't work.

[Marie Marie]

9. If he had been forced to serve, this over privileged wus would have shit himself

worse than that poor dog on the roof of his car.

Why is it he can brag about his French vacations but we had to rename French Fries to Freedom Fries because the French had the brains to sit out the unnecessary war in Iraq and were therefore, subject to our scorn and ridicule. Anybody remember how we (no make that they - the Repubs) mocked them mercilessly - to the point of being absurd. Back in 2008, I think Obama would have almost been more vilified if he had been born in France rather than Kenya.

[frogmarch]

11. He survived the Viet Nam war in one piece!

Without being wounded! Sure, he was in France during part of it and, technically speaking, never participated in it, but that doesn't change the fact that he survived it, and in good shape too, I might add.

I wonder what sorts of pranks he pulled on the French and if they thought he was as funny as Jerry Lewis.

[kenny blankenship]

16. Oh yes, it was a near thing...

He had his scrapes back in the mid sixties. There were nights he didn't come home.

Everyone knows how France had a low grade civil war boiling at home after the loss of Algeria in 1962. "OAS" is a name everyone has heard or spoken at some point. They tried to kill De Gaulle a half dozen times according to the scoreboard. Not as many know about the Vietnamese Ninja Deathsquads that roamed Paris at night, taking out Vietnamese dissidents marked for death by Ho Chi Minh. That was the plan anyway.

It was war- le guerre to be precise. And in war the first casualty is always the plan. Ho sent in his intelligence services, Mitt was the counterintell. It was Ninja Charley vs. Mormon Mitt. Black pajamas vs. Magic Underwear. The Inscrutable Force ran into the Obtuse Object. Guess who won? Well, you don't hear about those Vietnamese Parisian Ninja Deathsquads anymore, now do ya?

[russspeakeasy]

12. He could borrow one of John McCain's stories. John seems to have

more than he needs.

[Gormy Cuss]

13. Life as a Fortunate Son.

Fuck Mitt and all the other fortunate ones who don't admit it.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

14. He "longed to go." There's a special place in Hell for assholes like this.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/06/05/495310/romney-military-vietnam/?mobile=nc

Did Mitt Romney ‘Long’ To Serve In Vietnam?

By Ben Armbruster on Jun 5, 2012 at 3:10 pm

Mitt Romney regularly prides himself as a champion of the military and the nation’s veterans (despite the fact that has offered little to no details about how he would address veterans issues). Romney recently praised the sacrifice “of the great men and women of every generation who serve in our armed services.” But in a new story examining Romney’s own military record, the AP notes that “it is a sacrifice the Republican presidential candidate did not make.”

During the height of the Vietnam War, Romney avoided military service by seeking and receiving four military draft deferments, some for university study and others for serving as a “minister of religion” in France.

But during his political career, Romney has flip-flopped on whether he actually wanted to serve in Vietnam. In 2007, Romney — a supporter of the war in Vietnam during the late-1960s — said he had wished he had served:

“I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there, and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam.”

[Gormy Cuss]

15. My brother longed to stay home

so yet again I say fuck Romney and the other fortunate sons who can't admit their privilege.

[renate]

19. LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR

He is contemptible.



If he longed to go, he fecking well could have gone. It's not as though anybody was stopping him.

[pinboy3niner]

20. +1000

Yeah, it was really hard to go to Vietnam then.

I knew more than 60 guys who died in Vietnam. Why wasn't Mitt with us if he wanted to be there so much?

[pinboy3niner]

21. Vietnam War to Fortunate Son...

[era veteran]

25. So fucking nailed it

Shit,I felt guilty for being in Germany but I was soldiering.
Fuck you Mitt

pinboy3niner, my respects for your service.

[pinboy3niner]

26. Thanks, EV

You have nothing to feel guilty about. And whenever you're even tempted to feel guilty, think of the faux-patriot chickenhawks like Romney.

Thank you for your service.

[permatex]

30. That brings back good and bad memories

Good memories of the Marines I served with and bad memories of the Marine buddies I lost.
Fuck that chickenhawk POS.

U.S. Navy Corpsman
1st BN 26th Marines
RVN 1968-1969

[pinboy3niner]

18. Some of us here at DU also have memories of that time...in Vietnam

And some of us have our Purple Hearts and our scars as reminders.

I don't think I even need to add the profanities to convey what we think of Mitt Romney...

[SoCalDem]

23. France is Marvelous in wartime (when war is elsewhere)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002533879

[11 Bravo]

27. Yup, no doubt the crack of an AK round next to his ear would have ...

totally fucked up the ambience of Mitt's vacation.

[magnifisense]

28. MARVELOUS MITT!