09-03-2008, 11:54 AM
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 Bidens Deferments
The Associated Press: Deferments, asthma kept Biden out of Vietnam Quote:
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden received five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War, the same number of deferments received by Vice President Dick Cheney, and later was disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager.
In "Promises to Keep," a memoir that was published last year and became an instant best-seller after he was tapped as Obama's running mate, Biden never mentions his asthma, recounting an active childhood, work as a lifeguard and football exploits in high school.
Biden's five student deferments equal the number given to Vice President Dick Cheney, who has been quoted as saying he had "other priorities" than military service in the 1960s.
| Where is the outrage. The left was up in arms about Cheney's deferments. Biden got the same number.
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