Re: Barack Obama
Bush and every other neocon I can think of dodged the draft and/or avoided combat. They just like sending others to their death to fight their wars. I live in Alabama and have talked to people with first hand knowledge of his awol status, partying and drug use. So I don't need Rather or anyone else to tell me the truth. The actual urban myth was created by the GOP machine that those things didn't take place.
I would have voted for virtually anybody that wasn't Bush in 2004, even though Kerry isn't the ideal president either. But by that point Bush had proven his dishonesty, divisiveness, incompetency and the innate ability to take this country to hell in a handbasket.
I was convinced in 2000 (and even more so now) that Gore would have been a much better president.