{"id":4271,"date":"2008-10-23T12:34:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T16:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2008-10-23T12:34:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T16:34:20","slug":"update-response-from-obama-campaign-officialpac-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=4271","title":{"rendered":"Update: Response from Obama campaign official\/PAC President"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you may remember this post<\/a> wherein I discussed how Col. Richard Klass serves as both the President of The Council for a Livable World\u2019s Veterans Alliance for Security and Democracy (CLW-VETPAC ) and as the Co-chair of Vets for Obama.<\/p>\n

I followed up that post with this one<\/a> which noted that despite being officials within the Obama campaign, both he and the VetPac vice-president produced a video that stated that they were not affiliated with any candidate or party.<\/p>\n

So I wrote to Col Klass:<\/p>\n

Your video claims that your group “is not affiliated with any candidate or party”. And yet you are the Co-chair of vets for Obama, and your vice president is a democratic delegate for Obama. Would you care to explain the seeming discrepancy for attribution on my blog?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Last night Col Klass responded, and in toto it reads:<\/p>\n

Thanks for your interest in CLW-VETPAC.
\nFirst, the video was produced at no cost to CLW-VETPAC and was put on the net so that those who wanted to could pay for it to be shown on television with their name as responsible Second, like all Political Action Committees (PAC) we are in the business of supporting candidates who share our views. Our primary focus is progressive veterans but we also endorse against those who we deem anti-veteran. We endorsed Senator Obama for president in some part because of Sen. McCain’s shameful record in this regard. In addition to the items mentioned in the video, Sen. McCain has received a “D” grade from the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America while Sen. Obama received a “B”. Sen. McCain has supported Disabled American Veterans legislative priorities 20% of the time, Sen. Obama 80%.
\nAll of our Board members are free to endorse any candidate they want as individuals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I hope by now you know how I feel about these assinine and inaccurate scorecards. But that isn’t the BEST thing about his response. Here is the last 3 sentences thereof:<\/p>\n

Yes, I am a volunteer for the Obama campaign as is Ms. Walker. But the organization has no ties to the campaign or to any candidate beyond endorsing and, in some cases, financially supporting them. <\/strong> That is what PACs do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Someone please explain how those first two sentences can logically follow with each other. No ties to the campaign, except the people who are running the PAC are also on the campaign?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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