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ChainsawJedis
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« on: February 22, 2015, 01:30:27 AM »
Watching a report on Jim Webb, and it occurred to me that Vietnam is the only major war which we have not had a president who served in it. I don't think Webb has a major chance in 2016.

PS. I'm not really counting Bush 43. I don't think he was ever in Vietnam.
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ChainsawJedis
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« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2015, 03:23:04 PM »
Quote from: OldDominion on February 22, 2015, 01:25:13 PM
Webb would be the best shot at it but in all likeliness, no. The Vietnam vets are getting old and a lot of them were turned off by politics coming home for obvious reasons so the ones that did get elected are few in number and don't have the name recognition of a John Kerry or a Jim Webb, for example.

I do think it has a lot to do with the persisting unpopularity of that war. The veterans aren't seen as war Heroes in the same way as WWII vets.
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