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.
[From Biden received 5 deferments before being declared medically ineligible for Vietnam -- Courant.com]
9.01.2008
But they were Democratic deferments so it's not the same
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everybody got student deferrments, what is this??? it's the reason my whole generaton went to college, why they built all those junior colleges to hold 'em, if you didn't go to school you went to nam, and the girls natually followed the trend. what on earth are they trying to make of it? good luck finding many baby boomer kids of the political class who didn't get a student deferment, there are very few.
Yes, everybody who went to college got student deferments. I got one.
But not five.
i seen to remember guys signing up and getting them each year...
Maybe extensions were annual.
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