Yesterday, before his surprise appearance at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Barack Obama stopped in Montana to address the state’s growing problem with the treatment of veterans, especially in the VA’s treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder:
“We’ve got folks begging for disability payments even though they’ve earned those disability payments. We’ve got veterans who are [...]
By Lt. Gen Robert G. Gard Jr., USA (Ret.)
The McCain campaign has spent weeks trying to portray Obama as out of touch with the concerns of ordinary Americans. Today, an interviewer at Politico.com asked McCain how many homes he and his wife owned, to which he responded that he was not sure but would get [...]
Today at a townhall meeting, a McCain supporter suggested reenacting the draft. Sen. McCain’s response? “I don’t disagree.”
QUESTIONER: If we don’t reenact the draft, I don’t think we’ll have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of hell.
[Appaluse]
MCCAIN: Ma’am, let me say that I don’t disagree with anything you said.
Watch it here:
This isn’t the [...]
Sen. Obama spoke to an audience of Veterans of Foreign Wars in Orlando, FL today, and chided John McCain for suggesting that Obama’s foreign policy positions were based on his own political interest, spoke in frank terms about the lack of political reconciliation in Iraq in the wake of the surge, and how Iraq has [...]
In a speech before the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), John McCain tried to take credit for Senator Jim Webb’s 21st Century GI Bill, claiming that he fought for “a better bill” while the Webb GI Bill, that was passed by the Senate by a margin of 75-22, was “flawed legislation.” This distortion of the [...]
On Monday, Stars and Stripes published an interview with Senator Barack Obama addressing the many challenges facing the military and how he would go about fixing them were he to become president. Obama first touches on his opposition of the “surge” in Iraq and Iran as a nuclear threat, and then gets into real specifics [...]
This is a shocking figure. While figures among military personnel overall are more evenly spread, donations from troops stationed overseas at the time of their donation have given $60,642 to Barack Obama’s campaign, compared to $10,665 for McCain.
From OpenSecrets.org:
During World War II, soldiers crouching in foxholes penned letters assuring their sweethearts that they’d be [...]
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My name’s Phil Carter; I’m an Iraq vet now serving as the Obama campaign’s veterans director. We are recruiting a group of Iraq / Afghanistan veterans to advise the campaign and participate in events around [...]
John McCain spoke to a disabled vets group in Las Vegas, and used his time there to continue to press his near-obsession with privatizing the VA and to attack Barack Obama, rather than address the real issues that face our veterans and active-duty soldiers. Attendees, as one would expect, responded coolly:
From The Las Vegas Sun:
Duke [...]
From Military Times
By Karen Jowers - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Aug 7, 2008 12:35:20 EDT
NORFOLK, Va. — When Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, held a roundtable with military spouses and retirees here on Wednesday, she got an earful — and said that if her husband is elected, he [...]
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