Perry vs Obama in a Picture

[JG55]

[Guest Lester Weevils]

Thanks JG55. That is a good contrast.

Continuing the theme, Mitt Romney at 22 was coming back from being a missionary in France (draft deferrment) to go back to college (another draft deferrment) before later drawing a high draft number.

Apologies editorializing, but seems that Mitt has looked like a yuppie dweeb his entire life!

Ron Paul was just entering med school at age 22 but was an AF flight surgeon by age 28. He wasn't a military pilot but got a private license around that time. Ron was drafted but at least he didn't try to weasel out.

There are few web pictures of a young Herman Cain. This one may be Morehouse College but perhaps high school.

At age 22 he had just received a math degree and was starting a gig computer programming ballistics for the Dept. of the Navy. I don't know if he was in the service. Maybe working for the Dept. of the Navy was good enough to avoid the draft at that time? He was simultaneously persuing a Computer Science MS at Purdue, so maybe it was a student deferrment. The draft was winding down by the time he graduated Purdue.

[Guest bkelm18]

Ah nevermind.

[eapking]

'nuff said right there...

[hornett22]

That alone says A LOT about Ron Paul's character. That is what this country needs!

[Jonnin]

The obama pic has been found to be from age 18 and perry may not be exactly 22, there is some guesswork being done on the actual photo dates. As I recall important DOD subcontractors can avoid the draft but their work has to be important enough, not just run of the mill stuff. Early computer science probably counted.