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Democrats Blame McCain For Interrupting Process Of Reaching Bailout Plan Compromise

[worstever2]

I respect our soldiers and our veterans, but upon seeing this story I have to ask

are veterans rallying around a veteran or just Repuklicans rallying around any republican candidate?

Where were the veterans around John Kerry, who was in a league of his own in terms of service to his country compared to BUSH?

What did veterans do then? They rallied around the Swift Boat, and sunk him.

Don''t give me this rallying around a veteran.

They are rallying around a republican.

Republican soldiers would vote for SATAN if he were the presidental candidate.

[missingamerica]

"More than 240 retired generals and admirals have endorsed McCain.."

Let me give you a clue, America.

A) Those guys have an AWESOME pension plan that includes wonderful healthcare - they are, after all, high-ranking officers - the "elites" of the military. They are as insulated from the realities of life in working America as Cindy McCain is.

B) They are taught and fully believe that they are entitled to sacrifice Americans to achieve their goals.

If McCain''s POW and veteran status is sufficient to prove his capability to be President, then why is Palin there?

Why didn''t McCain just go down to a VA center and pick a VP?

Hell, why is McCain himself critical?

There are lots of military men and women whose service was as tough or tougher - and who did not get away with crashing jets while goofing off because he or she was the child of Admirals.

lolll...if you have ever been in an O-club in southeast asia, you understand how stupid I think ANYBODY is who says somebody deserves more respect because "they were and officer and a gentleman".

[baby54boomer]

To assume that all veterans are going to support McCain is simply folly. Those veterans have families that are suffering just like the rest of Main Street America. Having been raised in a military household I know that the life that those families lead is filled with hardship under optimum circumstance let alone with what has been happening these past 8 years. The republicans have really done nothing to ease that burden.

[rm1813]

It''s 3 a.m., a few months into 2009, and the phone in the White House rings. Several big hedge funds are about to fail, Whom do you trust to take that call? The odds are that the next president will have to deal with some major financial emergencies. We''ve known that Mr. McCain doesn''t know much about economics- he''s said so himself. That wouldn''t matter too much if he had good taste in advisers -- but he doesn''t. Remember, his chief mentor on economics is Phil Gramm, the arch-deregulator, who took special care in his Senate days to prevent oversight of financial derivatives -- that sank Lehman and A.I.G., and brought the credit markets to the edge of collapse. Mr. Gramm is still considered a likely choice as Treasury secretary. And when the McCain campaign announced that the candidate had assembled %u201Can impressive collection of economists, professors, and prominent conservative policyleaders%u201D to advise him on economic policy, who was prominently featured? Kevin Hassett, the co-author of %u201CDow 36,000.%u201D Enough said. To a large extent the poor quality of Mr. McCain''s advisers reflects thetattered intellectual state of his party. Has there ever been a more pathetic economic proposal than that we try to solve the financial crisis by eliminating capital gains taxes? (Troubled financial institutions, by definition, don''t have capital gains to tax.). At this point, one has the suspicion that a McCain administration would have us longing for Bush-era competence.

[rdepontb]

McCain, America''s self-ordained "Senior Soldier," has a long way to go before he warrants support from our veterans. There are now literally thousands and thousands of returning military who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well as traumatic brain injury (TBI). These inflictions of battle are difficult to guard against, difficult to diagnose, but all to clear in the devastation they are bringing in terms of spousal and family abuse, self-abuse, broken homes, lost career opportunities---a blight that is being perpetrated on succeding generations of our truly honorable fighting forces.

Some of the very earmarks McCain rails against are to support research and help in handling PTSD and TBI. That help is too late in coming for many families and individuals; programs here are in no better shape than the wallowing Veteran''s Administration health care facilities and programs.


WHERE HAS SOLDIER MCCAIN BEEN ON MILITARY HEALTH CARE ALL THESE YEARS? WHY SHOULD WE "TRUST" HIM NOW??

[gop_will_win]

Did anyone else here see the protester at the RNC holding up a sign that read something like "McCain votes against Vets"? There were a few protesters that made it into the convention center and were distracting from the event.


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Posted by ibzjem
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Thats a shame. They should have been arrested and beaten senselessly with black jacks.

[ibzjem]

Did anyone else here see the protester at the RNC holding up a sign that read something like "McCain votes against Vets"? There were a few protesters that made it into the convention center and were distracting from the event.

[saj210]

Why were so many of the veterans hospitals, etc., in such disrepair? What did McCain do to remedy that????

McCain is playing on the veterans emotions! If he were going to take care of them he should have started before the campaign! Or couldn''t he talk his mentor (Bush) into shelling out the money?!!!!

[mdean05]

Good point Mcliar -

But I saw Obama''s comeback with the statement that he wears a bracelet too, only put McLame in his place that he could not use the bracelet card in this debate..

[mdean05]

...I wear a bracelet too - discusting how this would be president is playing on the emotions of this woman''s son for his political gain... Come on now people WAKE UP!!

[tonyd_31]

I am a veteran and I am proud to say that I will support the Democratic Ticket of Obama/Biden. John McSame and Palin will not get my vote and I will do everything I can and talk to all my other fellow vets in making sure that Obama/Biden are elected.

[twig221]

It is sad that support is based on him serving but not on what he has done lately for soldiers. Yes he was in the Navy and was a POW. But what about the soldiers coming home from these current conflicts who need help and John voting nothing to help them. If he can criticise Obama for voting against funding because the bill was open ended, then why is he not being criticized for voting against bills to help the soldiers because those bills contained other things he did not like. Just like President Bush, John wants it both ways when it suits him. Look past the POW issue and what he has done in the last 8 years.

[gop_will_win]

This is just like they did in 2000 and 2004 for another decorated war veteran, President Bush. The GOP always has a candidate who served well in the military and his fellow soldiers are always there to support them.