"How can you run for Senate when you never held a real job?" ~ Senator Metzenbaum
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    Angry "How can you run for Senate when you never held a real job?" ~ Senator Metzenbaum

    JOHN GLENN (ON THE SENATE FLOOR)
    Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:13

    Some people still don't understand why military personnel
    do what they do for a living. This exchange between
    Senators John Glenn and Senator Howard Metzenbaum
    is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive
    impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of one
    man's explanation of why men and women in the armed
    services do what they do for a living.

    This IS a typical, though sad, example of what
    some who have never served think of the military.

    Senator Metzenbaum (speaking to Senator Glenn):
    "How can you run for Senate
    when you've never held a real job?"

    Senator Glenn (D-Ohio):
    "I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps.
    I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions.
    My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different
    occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn't my
    checkbook, Howard, it was my life on the line. It was
    not a nine-to-five job, where I took my tie off to take the
    daily cash receipts to the bank."

    "I ask you to go with me ... as I went the other day...
    to a veterans' hospital and look those men ...
    with their mangled bodies in the eye, and tell THEM
    they didn't hold a job!

    You go with me to the Space Program at NASA and go, as I have gone, to the widows and orphans
    of Ed White, Gus Grissom, and Roger Chaffee...
    and you look those kids in the eye and tell them
    that their DADS didn't hold a job.

    You go with me on Memorial Day, and you stand in
    Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends
    buried than I'd like to remember, and you watch
    those waving flags

    You stand there, and you think about this nation,
    and you tell ME that those people didn't have a job?

    What about you?"

    For those who don't remember ..
    During W.W.II, Howard Metzenbaum was an attorney
    representing the Communist Party in the USA.

    Now he's a Senator!

    If you can read this, thank a teacher.
    If you are reading it in English thank a Veteran.

    It might not be a bad idea to keep this circulating.



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    yellowwing
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    Claim: Senate candidate John Glenn delivered a stinging rebuke to a challenger who accused him of never having held a job.

    Status: True.

    Wow, it passes the snopes urban legend test. This story seems so outlandish that I just had to research it. Metzenbaum: "How can you run for Senate when you've never held a 'job'?" The balls to ask John Glenn that question.


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    Wink I have a cousin-in-law from Ohio, if you got mice, he has beavers

    Quote Originally Posted by yellowwing
    The balls to ask John Glenn that question.
    Ahhh...Ole Mark Twain had 'em pegged!

    "Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a member of
    Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain ...



    The Metzenbaums in congress!


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    Gee, I guess I should remove my tenure as a Marine from my resume.


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