I hear that Stallone is one more Rocky film.In it Rocky fights a grueling 12 rounder with a clerk at Social Security trying to get his benefits.Yo Adrian I got the mental benefits.

P.T.——interesting comparison.  Draft dodgers suffer from one human emotion——that of fear!  Draft resisters openly oppose a war effort and their fear is a bit less since their views are made public.  But there is another kind of military avoidance that is barely touched upon——that of “safely” serving and meeting military obligation.  That is precisely what Bush did through his connections.  How much time he actually spend on duty is open to argument, but that is immaterial——he’s on record as having served.  Probably if he had dodge the draft as had Cheney, John Kerry would have been president!  I, too, had political connections and was told that building deferment upon deferment may not look good on a resume (depending on your career path) and that safely serving was a better route.  And so it was, though drafted, I never left stateside——was it luck of the draw or intervention——I never heard from the “connection” and some things are better left unvisited!  The question is how many others in high places received such favors during war periods???

Well, I was dead set against McCain because he will get us into several more wars, is an idiot on economics, and represents only a slight improvement over the Bush/Cheney Reich. But, now that I see that the star of ‘Cobra’ (“You’re the disease, I’m the cure”) has endorsed him, I was way off. This guy must really be the answer, or at least a burned-out, roid-ravaged has-been actor thinks so. I thought McCain was pushing to clean steroids out of major league baseball. How about cleaning them out of Sly Stallone?

I find this so amusing as Rambo/Stallone spent his draft-eligible years - of the Vietnam War-teaching physical education in a private girls school in Switzerland.

Just how many years did John(I don’t know much about economics)McCain want to have troops in Iraq?  Was it a thousand or a million?

Stallone is too old for the parts he plays and McCain is too old to be president.  They both have fantasies about America’s role in the world.

Humm..I’d be willing to bet that Hillary probably ‘endorses’ him too. As DennisD explained so well on a different thread. These folks (McCain, Hillary, Leiberman, etc, etc) are the difference between pepsi and coke, and we should dump them all in the Harbor, and get on with the revolution.

P.T., thanks for articulating the difference between draft dodgers and draft resisters.

Stallone’s muscled ape of McCain is another reason not to do steroids. Tell your children.

John McCain also has picked up the Draft Dodger Joe Lieberman endorsement.

That depends on their track records.  There is, of course, a big difference between draft dodgers and draft resisters.  The former is to be condemned and the latter lauded.  Draft dodgers avoid and they even support, not oppose, imperialist wars.  Draft resisters work against imperialist wars.  The struggle continues!

P.T., I think Hillary has the draft dodger vote wrapped up, since she is married to one, and the chairman of her political party is one.

wouldn’t that just be perfect…

Who’s ever made the mistake of believing the, shall we say, aging action stars are smart?

However, they do have an uncanny ability to smell camera lights!

Draft dodger Stallone has jumped on the McCain bandwagon.