{"id":29935,"date":"2012-05-14T07:54:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T11:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29935"},"modified":"2012-05-14T07:54:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T11:54:01","slug":"obama-targets-vets-for-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29935","title":{"rendered":"Obama targets vets for votes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a>‘s Amy Gardner reports that which we already know from reading the Reuters piece<\/a> yesterday, that the Obama campaign is pressing veterans for their votes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a different face of the American veteran now,\u201d said Lauren Zapf, 30, a Navy veteran who served in the Persian Gulf and who spoke recently at a gathering in Northern Virginia for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Timothy M. Kaine. \u201cThe president\u2019s stance on social policies, his work with military families, what he was doing with policy in both Iraq and Afghanistan \u2014 I appreciate that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republicans concede the group\u2019s new battleground status. \u201cVeterans are truly a cross-section of the population,\u201d Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell said in a recent interview. \u201cI appreciate the fact that the president is engaging our warriors and their families.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, the President did his best, when he was a Senator and before that to undermine the war effort, and now that he’s slipping among his 2008 voters in the polls, he thinks he can make up for that with veterans. And as we saw yesterday, the media is more than willing to help him out. <\/p>\n

Like a discussion I had at the Carpool the other night with a young man who was trying to solicit my support for his particular organization, where were these people eight years ago? generally, they were giving hope to the enemy that all they had to do was wait us out and the Democrats would give them an easy victory. <\/p>\n

For me the evidence of that was when the Democrats won the Congress in 2006 and George Bush started the surge. When the Iraqi resistance had thought that they had the US beat with the Democrat victory, instead, Bush sent more troops, proving that the Democrat’s bullshit talk about ending the war was coming from a position of weakness. Barack Obama was among them, voting every time the issue came up in the Senate to cut off funding for the war and leave the troops stranded. It was their only strategy against a successful conclusion for the war, because the troops were just their political pawns.<\/p>\n

Remember, Harry Reid telling us that the surge had failed before it even began? Any complaints for Senator Obama?<\/p>\n

While most veterans are older and more conservative, younger veterans who served more recently in Iraq and Afghanistan include more women and minorities. Politically, they are more reflective of the nation overall: independent-minded, less socially conservative and more supportive of the winding down of the two wars the president inherited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, he’s trying to attract the Ron Paulian veterans. Any that would jump over to Obama are lying to themselves. Like the soldier in yesterday’s discussion who said he likes his guns, but is supporting Obama. How long does he think his guns will last in an administration that doesn’t have to run for office again – not to mention the aging and ailing Supreme Court judges who will replaced in the next four years.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore 2008, nobody talked about military families,\u201d said Rob Diamond, who served in Iraq and is the Obama campaign\u2019s vote director for veterans and military families. \u201cMilitary families have become part of the national conversation. Americans realize that when you have an all-volunteer military, the sacrifice is not just by the service members but their families, too.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, nobody talked about military families, well, except the Bush Administration who mentioned almost every day since the war began. And since Obama didn’t mention them in 2008, no one talked about them, I suppose, because nothing happens without Obama doing it. Like that “Got Your 6<\/a>” bullshit that I caught flack for not supporting this weekend. Yeah, sure, I’m all for some support for the troops and their family, even at this late date, but where the hell were these jerkwads for the last ten years? And they had to wait for the president to tell them it’s OK to support the troops? Please. Stop urinating on my leg.<\/p>\n

Just like IAVA morphed from their anti-Bush website OpTruth<\/a>, a leopard can’t change it’s spots, and a skunk can’t change the fact that he stinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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