Thank you for asking solitair. I should assume that if he lives in denial of his wrongdoing thirty years ago he is th same person he was then, so 1.)yes it apparently does matter to him at least; If he used his guardsmanship to escape service to his Country in time of war then, YES it most certainly does matter to all the guardsmen and women who serve a equally un-just cause today. They are putting life and limb on the line in his same position, refusing to be illegitimate, and are dying and being maimed. They will not be seen as hypocrites when they wear flight jackets and tell people they too are veterans of war for their Country. So 2.) Yes; If his family exerted influence to protect him they too show a lack of the values necessary to serve as Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces. The family, you may have heard this term before, "abused its power" to get thier Son protection while others went, fought and died in service, so 3.) yes;(on this matter I note Bush was not an unwilling paticipant in his cowardly act, or forced to be one by his family) Americans are just a bunch of strange people I guess, in wanting to judge a Candidate by his past so as to have a gauge to judge future credibility and whether thier President is a hypocrite, abuser of power, unwilling to place his own neck on the line for his country while simultaneously making his fellow Ameicans do so, so 4.)yes; As to the relevance of his not serving but being paid for guard duty he did not perform, while being coward in time of war is as relevant today as it was then, so 5.)yes;
'What he's doing now? He is furthering his disrespect of the armed forces by telling them to fight and die and be maimed while he sits in the oval office, once again out of line of fire, and refuses to admit he was coward in the same postition, the war was un-just and done by use of fraud to the Congress for purpose of putting Americans in harms way to profit for his oil friends and Haliburton, etc.
He 'stands' for legitimizing ILLEGAL immigrants as long as they promise him they'll take an Americans job; not a very Republican ideal. He is reducing benefits to veterans, taking away their eligibility for oveitme pay when they return home,due to them being 'trained' while overseas. He is a strong advocate of stripping away civil liberties of Americans in insisting on further and more onerous 'Patriot Act 2" which has already been adjudged unconstitutional in portions. He uses existing campaign laws to further an agenda (which Americans hold are corrupt and un just laws) by buying the Presidency with no one before him being so blatant about it. He supports a Vice-President enmeshed in criminal activity and openly meeting privately with Supreme Court Justices on 'hunting and 'fishing' trips, etc. etc. He's just got a slew of reasons to not give him four more years of violence and violations as our deficit and debt increases along with the loss of life and limb of our best and brightest.
Finally, it couldn't be dealt with thirty years ago, as his family had the records altered by a telephone call as he ran for the Presidency in 1999.
We are just now developing a account of him claiming he was 'transporting tropical plants' in his one seat government craft out of Central America in the time he was in the National Guard. There is much more to come on this story so please do stay tuned because you know I'll be putting up the information the 'controlled-media' won't as it comes in.