{"id":30152,"date":"2012-05-29T07:28:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T11:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30152"},"modified":"2012-05-29T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T12:00:47","slug":"obama-promises-to-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30152","title":{"rendered":"Obama: Promises to veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last August, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26349\">I reported to you<\/a> from the floor of the American Legion Convention how the President had promised to the assemblage in Minneapolis that he wouldn&#8217;t &#8220;balance the budget on the backs of veterans&#8221;. Within days, we learned that his hitman, Panetta was already at work doing just that. Well, apparently, the president thought that sounded pretty good because <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_OBAMA?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2012-05-28-15-31-21\">he made similar promises yesterday<\/a> on America&#8217;s most sacred grounds;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As long as I&#8217;m president, we will make sure you and your loved ones will receive the benefits you&#8217;ve earned and the respect you deserve,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;America will be there for you.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, by forcing us all into the Veterans&#8217; Affairs Department and out of TriCare. I happen to like my doctors at Walter Reed, I like the service I get there and I hate the way I&#8217;m treated at the VA. The doctors at Walter Reed kept Strom Thurman alive for a hundred years and as soon as he moved back to South Carolina, he died. So I&#8217;m going to resist this big plan of Obama&#8217;s to force veterans into the VA government bureaucrat healthcare system run by drama queens and arrogant assholes. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Added:<\/strong> For additional comedy, he did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/opinion\/keeping-faith-with-vietnam-veterans-1.178777\">a guest column in the Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last August, I reported to you from the floor of the American Legion Convention how the &hellip; <a title=\"Obama: Promises to veterans\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30152\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obama: Promises to veterans<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}