The Pendragon's Hall

Yet another embarrassing moment in the history of liberalism unfolds. Newsmax announced yesterday that Hillary Clinton applied for--and received--a Purple Heart Award for "inspirational leadership." Leaving aside the laughability of that for the moment, the Purple Heart goes to people wounded in action serving in the country's military. Hillary has never even been in the military, much less in action, much less wounded in action. An egg to the face while preaching your socialist health care program is not the same as taking a bullet on the front lines of your country's battles. The only lame excuse the senator could offer is that she tried to enlist in the Marines when she was 27, probably so she could use it as an excuse when she tried to run for president, like JF Kerry did. They rejected her because she was too old, or maybe because she was already an anti-military activist by that age and nobody would want to be in a fox hole with her. Further interesting revelations about her true character appear when she was quoted as saying, "I wanted to explore - I didn't know whether I thought active duty would be a good idea, reserve, you know, maybe National Guard, something along those lines." National Guard?!? Really? I thought when Bush enlisted in the National Guard, it was a cowardly effort to get out of active duty in Vietnam. In other words, Hillary once tried to enlist and was turned down and now the military is honoring her with an award for people wounded in combat. Can you imagine what would happen if George Bush put in for a purple heart and received it? The hits he takes in the media are bad, but liberals would be outraged that he accepted such an award, never having seen active duty. But now Hillary has one more thing that Kerry had in 2004: a fake purple heart. Remember this in 2008.