Words We Hope He Won't Be Eating

John Edwards drew a standing ovation in West Virginia when he declared, in answer to a question from the concerned mother of a 20-year-old college student, "There will be no draft when John Kerry is president." (USA Today story here.)

O Lordy! My own fear is that there will certainly be a draft if George W. is reelected and that there will certainly be a draft if Kerry is elected too, since it's gonna take extraordinary sacrifices to get us out of the ditch El Presidente has planted us so deep in. The fact that neither campaign can be honest about that future for our draft-age college students is ... just ... wholly expected.

Smart money might bet on Kerry as finding some other way out, dodging the draft (as it were), while the same smart money knows beyond any shadow of a doubt that George W. (the successful draft dodger) is going to go into that wall without blinking. Why, that's what his supporters count on! His never admitting that the path he's embarked on is anything but the will of God.

So all you ASU students -- especially you frat boys who like the idea of this war -- you might be thinking of getting your mail forwarded, 'cause your chances of getting to fight and eat sand in this glorious enterprize are mighty good, we'd say, if you reelect Mr. Macho Man (not to mention God's Chosen Leader on Earth).