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Michael J. O'Shea: Did I Mention That I'm Noble? (Re: Obama)

Is it 297 or 643 times we've heard Barack Obama toot: "I turned down more lucrative jobs and went to work for a group of churches"? As the Church Lady herself remarked: "Well, isn't that special?"

Young Obama nobly sets forth in 1983 for a paltry $12,000 plus a $2,000 old car. Blessed be he.

And ignored be these: the 2,929 who graduated that same year from West Point, Annapolis, and the Air Force Academy -- people every bit as bright, from schools at least as selective and even more demanding than Obama's Columbia alma mater, and making, almost to the penny, the same $12,000 that Obama did. But how many of them boast of how noble they were then and are even more so now?

And that $2,000 car? Would be worth $4,320 today. Which could nab a ‘93 BMW, ‘92 Mercedes, or ‘91 Jaguar. Not bad for a lad who had yet to work a lick and whose resume today is almost as blank.

Obama repeatedly touts his "over two decades of public service," but the military has 439 one-stars who were his college contemporaries who've served their country even longer. But with this difference:

Fewer than one percent of career officers will ever be promoted to Flag [that is, one-star General or Admiral]Rank.

That's what usmilitary.about.com states.

And that's fewer than 1% of all career officers -- not just all 1,427,546 men and women on active duty: fewer than 1% of all officers will ever earn a single star. And it took them an average of 25 years to merit just that one.

Moving beyond that sole star demands even longer service if not higher heroics: in the active-duty military today, just 278 men and women bear two stars, only 124 have three, and a mere 34 wear four....
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