re: #198 JamesTKirk

They did not have that sort of power at the time, to manipulate the rules, laws, government, and media to the benefit of their family members.

They weren’t the Kennedys.

Don’t talk nonsense. If the Bush family really did not want their son to go to Vietnam, he was not going. Once again, this isn’t a slur on the family, but they were not the kind of people whose son was going into combat if he didn’t choose to.

I don’t really car about this issue, but I gota laugh out of the bit there.
SFZ is right. They could do whatever they wanted to do to get junior whatever slot he wanted. They were a privileged family much like… the Kennedy’s.

Not the Kennedy’s? Come on!
(from Wiki)
The Bush family is a prominent American family. Along with many members who have been successful bankers and businessmen, across three generations the family includes two U.S. Senators, one Supreme Court Justice, two Governors, one Vice President and two Presidents. George Herbert Walker and Barbara Bush have been married for 63 years, holding the record for the longest married presidential couple. Peter Schweizer, author of a biography of the family, has described the Bushes as “the most successful political dynasty in American history.”[1] According to some on-line sources,[2][3][4] the Bush family is of primarily English and German descent.

They were the WASP version that the Kennedy’s struggled so hard to be, so please don’t just post stuff that is so blatantly wrong.