{"id":62517,"date":"2015-10-28T13:41:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62517"},"modified":"2015-10-28T13:41:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:41:47","slug":"clinton-out-of-touch-with-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62517","title":{"rendered":"Clinton out of touch with veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hillary Clinton demonstrated how out of touch she is with veterans’ issues when she went on some guy’s show on MSNBC and told Raymond, or Rachel, or whatever his name is that “issues within the VA have “not been as widespread as it has been made out to be”” according to CNN<\/a>. John McCain shot back;<\/p>\n

“I don’t know what Hillary Clinton’s view of what ‘widespread’ is but facts are stubborn things,” the 2008 Republican presidential nominee said on a conference call with reporters.<\/p>\n

McCain also took issue with Clinton’s claim that Republicans have made the VA partisan and want to use it to privatize the VA. In doing so, McCain noted that he worked with her Democratic rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, to pass a VA reform bill.<\/p>\n

“Now Hillary Clinton, in her blind ambition, has injected partisanship into the VA issue and that is disgraceful,” he said. “She owes an apology.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Someone tells us that Hillary is taking her queue on veterans’ issues from her adviser, Phillip Carter. Carter was also Obama’s veteran adviser in 2008. Before that, he was a founding member of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) the organization that morphed out of OpTruth – the anti-Bush creation of Paul Rieckoff. Carter also wrote anti-Bush screeds for the Washington Post. To reward him for his work on the Obama campaign, Obama appointed him as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs and then fired him a few months later because he couldn’t figure out how to depopulate Guantanamo.<\/p>\n

More famously, Carter wrote IAVA’s “scorecard” for the 2008 presidential campaign that was so skewed that Obama scored higher than John McCain on veterans’ issues. Carter hid his participation in that process. The scorecard was simply based on the way the candidates voted on the Post 9-11 GI Bill. After the election, IAVA and Paul Rieckoff tried to strip some of the provisions of the Bill out that Republicans had expressed concern about and tried to delay implementation of the bill.<\/p>\n

So, it’s really no surprise to anyone that Hillary is woefully misinformed about veterans’ issues. The word on the street is that Carter recently began the briefing of a group of veterans’ service organizations representatives \u201cNow that VA has solved the backlog\u2026\u201d The VSOs rightly handed him his ass. <\/p>\n

Yeah, so who can expect Clinton to be well-informed about veterans’ issues with proven political hacks like Phil Carter advising her? I guess Carter is shooting for the SecDef or DVA director position now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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