{"id":27939,"date":"2011-12-15T21:15:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T01:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27939"},"modified":"2011-12-15T21:15:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T01:15:49","slug":"vets4obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27939","title":{"rendered":"Vets4Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zero sent us an article from Reuters which warns<\/a> that the Obama campaign has assembled about 700 veterans to spread the message that Obama is a strong and capable military leader. I guess that IAVA and VoteVets haven’t successfully shouldered their load;<\/p>\n

The Obama campaign has built a network of more than 700 supportive veterans to promote the president in key states such as Virginia and North Carolina, where 13 percent and 11 percent of residents are veterans, respectively.<\/p>\n

These states are among a dozen divided battleground states that could hold the keys to victory in the 2012 election.<\/p>\n

The move is a sign that the Obama campaign will aggressively tout the commander-in-chief’s record as a military leader while it tries to assure Americans that the president can lift the struggling U.S. economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suppose that it’s fairly easy to find a few hundred Kool Aid drinkers among millions of veterans. The military isn’t a monolithic bloc of voters and, of course, there will be a few who still support Obama and are willing to campaign for him, but I don’t think it will turn out well for them or for Obama. The problem is that you can’t convince someone of somthing when they’ve seen it with their own eyes.<\/p>\n

Yeah, you can tell the regular old nimrods that Obama is going to pay their rent and car payments and they’ll believe it. But you can’t tell the military that Obama is a strong and capable leader when they’ve been surrounded by strong and capable leaders for their whole adult lives and know what one really looks like. <\/p>\n

And they’d better prepare their bios…veterans are not going to be convinced by someone who spent twenty years managing the Fort Jackson NCO club. We want credentials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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