Santorum Ad Says He 'Served 8 Years On Armed Services'

How convenient to miss that one little word.

Maybe "Committee" sounds too Communist for a right-wing ad, kind of like the word "Czar"/sarc

Santorum Ad Claims Most Electable Status — And Says He 'Served 8 Years On Armed Services'

Did he actually serve, or did he just service the men? I hear he's got a lot of experience being on his knees from praying to the invisible man in the sky.

Oh. My. God.

Well, that was the end of that stupid putz' campaign. Lying about your military service is going to make him look like a complete @!$%#.

Picture Dukakis in his tank.

Playing to his base which is loaded with idiots.

Yup, I told you that boy was a soldier Cletus, I guess you were right it says right there he was on the Armed Services.

"Served 8 Years on Armed Services."

Big deal. It's public knowledge available for anyone with the intellectual curiosity to look it up.

I guess Committee was too big a word to fit on the ad

I guess indeed...

#1.5 "Cletus", lol.

"Served 8 Years on Armed Services."

Big deal. It's public knowledge available for anyone with the intellectual curiosity to look it up.

His supporters are too stupid to look it up.

His supporters are too stupid to look it up.

Subjective observation. Nothing more.

That quote is already suspect.

Why wouldn't he just say "served in the Army", or "served in the Navy", or Air Force, or Marines, or Coast Guard?

No, Ricky boy, it takes a little more to appeal to veterans than that. You insult our intelligence with that bonehead play.

Say, I have a great idea Ricky! How about you show a DD Form 214? Just make damn sure it's authentic! Maybe you can get Oily Taintz to show you how to do that!

Okay, I doubt very much that his supporters are intellectually curious enough to look it up and just swallow it hook, line and sinker.

Oh, I know he didn't serve. His statement about "8 years on armed services" says as much.

One need not go farther than that.

I say if he's going to make that claim, he better back it up with undeniable PROOF. He is not a veteran. Veterans don't speak in such broad generalizations, and are very proud of the branch in which they served.

This guy keeps proving what a punk he is.

I just finished destroying Joe Kat in another thread for posting twisted half-truths. (Example: Kat said Michelle Obama's job as a vice president at University of Chicago Medical Center was a political payoff because they eliminated it after she left. He CONVENIENTLY failed to mention that 15 executive jobs were eliminated in a general reorg. (Chicago Tribune: ""the hospital is eliminating 15 senior executive jobs, including a position that had been held by incoming First Lady Michelle Obama, who had been vice president for community and external affairs for the medical center.")

Now he's trying to excuse his guy for twisting facts too.

Seems like it runs in his political family.

Who gets to be the one that tells santorum that he just committed a criminal act?

Translated,'8 years on Armed services' likely means more along the lines that he was toting a gun in one of those 'Be prepared for the Apocolypse' militias. Non-aryans are taking over 'our race.'

It's public knowledge available for anyone with the intellectual curiosity to look it up.

Best reply to that -

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
- George Carlin

(Example: Kat said Michelle Obama's job as a vice president at University of Chicago Medical Center was a political payoff because they eliminated it after she left. He CONVENIENTLY failed to mention that 15 executive jobs were eliminated in a general reorg. (Chicago Tribune: ""the hospital is eliminating 15 senior executive jobs, including a position that had been held by incoming First Lady Michelle Obama, who had been vice president for community and external affairs for the medical center.")

Yeah right Porter, you destroyed me. You must have a wonder sense of perception.

BTW:The topic here is Santorum, not Obama.

Who would want Rick Santorum in their military unit on the field of battle??? Good grief!!! Could you imagine him with his preachy anti sex sermon in the barracks??? In those sweater vests? In a fox hole with you wanting to preach to you incessantly about birth control, abortion, sex, etc... and not shut up ever?

Those type of guys in Nam probably never came back alive.

TO #1.11 long form DD214??? LOL

ROTFLMAO!! :D !!

If he gets Oily to make him up one, she'll know what one looks like!

Ombra (1.18)- I see your George Carlin and raise you an Albert Einstein: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

"There's a sucker born every minute" usually wrongly attributed to P.T. Barnum

"If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be." Mark Twain

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" Robert Heinlein

There's never a shortage of fools, as proven everyday all over the world.

mountainmike:

#1.20

:~)) ;~))

Well, I'm sure they didn't last long in the boonies. Point was a bitch, and well you know. ;~)) ;~))

Better to remain silent and be thought the fool than to opens ones mouth and prove being the fool.

8 years on the armed services. Doing what reducing the benefits for the returning vets ??

He sounds bucu dinky dau #10. LOL

This is an artful lie of omission sucked up by Santorum supporters.

"8 years on the armed services. Doing what reducing the benefits for the returning vets ??"

Nailed it there grandpa! WE have heard the gNOp want to take away the veterans benefits. Too bad reich trash like frothy aren't honest or HONORABLE. He'd probably be one of those who rape fellow "soldiers" and well them it is "god's love".

The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:2-17 NKJV)

1
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.

2
“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.

3
“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

4
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

5
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

6
“You shall not murder.

7
“You shall not commit adultery.

8
“You shall not steal.

9
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

10
“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.”

^^^^^

Maybe Saintorum should go over the 10 commandants before speaking.

Someone is definitely in the hot seat now. Burn Saintorum Burn!

Every time the Prick speaks, I feel like I need to wash the Santorum off of me

The New Testament takes out the Old Testament because of Jesus.

Jesus issued a greatest commandment:

Matthew 22:37-39

New International Version (NIV)

37 Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'
38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

In any case, Santorum, along with like-minded people [newt], does not find himself beholden to the ten or the two.

It should be noted that when the announcer touts Santorum's foreign policy credentials, the on-screen text declares "Served 8 Years on Armed Services." This particular phrasing might give the impression that Santorum is a veteran — which he was not —

Not a Veteran.... (Santorum is a veteran) — which he was not —

Those type of guys in Nam probably never came back alive.

mountainmike-1199289 - #1.20

Smile :-)

About that Second Commandment...

I think it's mildly amusing that the Pledge of Allegiance (a promise to obey a symbol) was written by an ardent socialist and initially called "idolatry" by a lot of Christians. Now it's so-called Christians who most fervently place their hand to their heart and promise their obedience to a flag, when they never, ever (I've never seen it, anyway), make such a pledge to God.

Maybe that's off-topic; but then again, maybe not. I've become convinced that the Two Party System is today's Golden Calf, and Santorum is a pretty creepy High Priest.

love your neighbor as you love yourself...

"Does that mean I have to jerk him off too?" - Rodney Dangerfield.

"I guess committee was too big a word to fit on the ad".

No, he just couldn't spell it!

Getting pretty tought to find a politician that actually served in the service these days, even the national guard ....

Well...the little missing word is "in". You don't serve ON the Armed Forces and you don't serve IN a committee.

Pffft...Either way...having Santorum anywhere but his own home reading comic strips is just wrong.

He's having problems with the first commandment, too. He and his ilk put both money and self aggrandizement before their supposed gawd.

nola....it's also HIS GREED. he and his can have all the perks but the rest of us are screwed!

I think you're right. GOTP voters will probably be hailing him as a war hero after seeing the ad. Multiple repetitions later and it will be ingrained in their collective psyche and become indisputable fact. More truthiness brought to you by the teapublicans.

We need to get the Dukakis picture where he was in the tank, and photoshop Santorum's head over it.

That will end this idiocy. @!$%#, most people can tell if someone is real military or not. Something about having a little self-dignity and pride.

Santorum is insulting our veterans by pretending to be one. What a complete prick.

Santorum is insulting our veterans by pretending to be one. What a complete prick.

He's a prick because a word was left off, on armed services, in armed services, little bit of a difference there.

Talkin about pricks and pretending, where's John Kerry these days?

Kerry was in the war he didn't have to pretend.

Santorum was not. He has to pretend.

So, do you really think Santorum was in the studio piecing together his own commercial?

Funny how "My Muslim faith" was an honest slip of the tongue but a mistake by somebody in a tv studio or wherever they put ads together reflects directly on Santorum.

And as far as Kerry goes, he lied, and he got called on it, what a prick.

I remember Swift boating. John Kerry was and is an American hero for his service in VietNam. (Even though VietNam itself was a mistake, those who chose to serve were still serving their country and deserve our respect.)

The lies back then really put me on the path of understanding how utterly disgusting right wingers had become in their lies and twisted versions. And it's so clear now that they're getting even worse.

Canonballer-

So, do you really think Santorum was in the studio piecing together his own commercial?

Perhaps this phrase is familiar to you:

"I'm Rick Santorum and I approved this message"

And as far as Kerry goes, he lied, and he got called on it, what a prick.

Wow. that's definitely a minority opinion. And counter to the military's own records.

I'm fine with having a minority opinion.

Ah, now the military industrial complex is a valid source of information? I'll stick to what the boots on the ground have to say about what happened.

Also don't forget his letter about how we needed to do something about Saddam and his WMD's, if it was a Bush lie it was also a Kerry lie, Pelosi lie, Clinton lie ad nauseam.

Saying Politicians lie is like saying the sky is blue, saying one politician is a liar without recognizing all the other liars is crazy.

I remember Swift boating. John Kerry was and is an American hero for his service in VietNam. (Even though VietNam itself was a mistake, those who chose to serve were still serving their country and deserve our respect.)

Kerry, another 1%er who married his money.

The Politicians use this type language when talking among them selves. I think he thought he was doing an ad to the House?

He has shown that he has no concept of the modern Military. If I were a Female combat pilot in an F15/16, A10 or Apachee Helo I would be looking through my gun site for Ric.

cannonballer, you don't seem to understand this one simple point: those of us who are veterans and those who are still on active duty do not take kindly to someone saying - or even implying - that he/she served when NO SERVICE WAS GIVEN.

You can keep on bringing up irrelevant points, and keep on defending Santorum all you want, but you can't change wrong into right.

I'm also a veteran, and not a fan of Rick. I also like the English language, and usually do well with grammar. So if there are mistakes, I welcome criticisms. I read it as "ON", not "IN". You are on a committee and in the arm services. I am not naive that I don't know politicians on every side do the play with word games to imply things,but the bigger issue is our education and them knowing how uneducated people are on both sides. CrowMeris, I'm with you on people perpetrating being in the service

I, too, am a veteran, abet in peacetime BUT I still served in the US Air Force. I got in on my own merits and didn't have to have my poppy set ME up in a ANG champaign unit. (sound familiar) I would NEVER support the nastiness of frothy. Lying piece of poop!

"Kerry, another 1%er who married his money."

True, that. .... A lot like McCain in that respect. (Well ... except that Kerry was an actual hero who won and deserved medals, not a last place party boy who managed to lose five- count 'em FIVE - airplanes.*)

But Kerry still supports requiring the rich to pay their fair share. My comment was about the unfair lies that were spread and believed, not about his wealth. As usual, your comment is a half truth intended to smear someone.

* Full disclosure: At least two were clearly McCain's fault. One was an accident on the flight deck that killed 134 sailors where he "might" have some responsibility. One didn't totally destroy the plane but McCain himself admits to "daredevil clowning". And the last was when he was shot down before ever firing his ordinance or completing his mission. Some would say the pilot might have something to do with that. Where do Republicans get these bozo's?

Cannonballer-

Ah, now the military industrial complex is a valid source of information? I'll stick to what the boots on the ground have to say about what happened.

Not to derail the thread with Swift boat nonsense (that's what it was/is) but read this ALL OF IT

http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/swift.asp

Of the first quotes, the one's used to "swift-boat" Karry, only one of those people served actually under Karry's command.

Follow the page further down and read the comments of those who DID serve under Kerry. They are ALL positive (except the one included in the first group).

So if you're gonna listen to the "boots on the ground", listen to ALL of the "boots on the ground".

K?

Screw photo-shopping his head over the Dukakis picture; put him on a Joe, on @!$%#-burnin detail!!!

I said I'd try to keep it simple. After all, I recognize my intended audience would be the creators of that ad. ;)