Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama accused the McCain-Palin campaign of using “swift boat”-style tactics in new ads and stump speeches unleashed this week because Sen. Obama once considered joining the military.“Just like they done old John Kerry, they’re doin’ me,” said Sen. Obama. “They know that I pondered military service and might have ended up as a swift-boat commander and decorated war hero if the Vietnam conflict hadn’t ended too soon.”
Sen. Obama told ABC News earlier this year that he might have joined the Army in 1979 if America had been at war because he “always thought of the military as an ennobling and, you know, honorable option.”
Today, the senator from Illinois said, “Americans won’t tolerate attacks on a man who very nearly risked his life for his country, and almost certainly would have won the Silver Star for gallantry in action against the enemy. As I almost used to say to my comrades-in-arms, these attacks are going to fire back on him…you know…make the back fire out…you know what I mean.”
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