{"id":32131,"date":"2012-09-25T06:56:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T10:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32131"},"modified":"2012-09-25T10:54:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T14:54:25","slug":"politico-veterans-retreating-from-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32131","title":{"rendered":"Politico: Veterans retreating from Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poetrooper sends us a link to Politico<\/a> which seems surprised that veterans aren’t supporting Obama in the numbers that everyone expected. Apparently we’re supposed to be grateful that Obama “got” bin Laden and ended the Iraq War, but veterans are able to see through the smoke and mirrors, much to the chagrin of the Democrats;<\/p>\n

Back in May, Obama had the lead among Afghanistan and Iraq veterans. But a Reuters\/Ipsos poll from September says that\u2019s evaporated, with Romney now up 48 percent to 34 percent.<\/p>\n

Obama campaign aides said the slip in the polls needs to be considered alongside recent surveys showing the president ahead of Romney on questions regarding foreign policy, leadership and keeping the country safe from terrorist attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Obama campaign makes some good points about the Romney campaign, in that Romney has all but ignored veterans and the troops serving in the war against terror;<\/p>\n

Obama campaign spokeswoman Clo Ewing predicted that the president\u2019s standing among veterans would improve by November, flagging a Zogby poll released Monday that puts Obama up 14 points with a small sample of active-duty military and their family members.<\/p>\n

Ewing also knocked the Republican\u2019s omission of the Afghanistan troops \u201cduring the most important speech of his career\u201d at last month\u2019s Republican National Convention in Tampa and swung at Romney for proposing a voucher program for veterans benefits. \u201cMitt Romney hasn\u2019t shown he will stand up for the military family and veterans community,\u201d she said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, the Obama Administration hasn’t “stood up” for veterans, either. Yeah, they’ve increased spending at the VA, but the other hand is increasing our Tricare costs, and we can’t forget that Obama wanted us all to buy health insurance to cover our service-connected disabilities early in his term. The only reason he didn’t follow through with it was because he needed to get re-elected. So what’s to stop him from doing in the next four years? Obama went through the motions of fighting the war against terror without really doing that which is necessary to win. Most veterans opposed the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, but somehow the Obama campaign thinks that helps them.<\/p>\n

Basically, the Obama Administration is vulnerable on the issue of veterans and national defense, unfortunately for the Republicans, so is Romney which is obvious because he won’t summon the testicular fortitude to confront Obama on those issues. So, it’s a coin toss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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