Better know an Obama campaign official

Today’s Veterans for Obama campaign official is Colonel Richard Klass. He’s the Co-Chair of Veterans for Obama Policy Group. He’s also a Blogger over at HuffPo, where he regularly espouses how great Obama is, and how Palin sucks. And he has an impressive resume:

Colonel Richard Klass. USAF (ret.) is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy, the National War College and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He flew over 200 combat missions in Vietnam and served in the Executive Office of the President as a White House Fellow. His awards include the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart.

And like his buddy Phil Carter on Veterans for Obama, Colonel Klass has a PAC, which (shockingly) also endorsed Obama. And, in another suprise, Paul Bucha, also a member of the Obama campaign is one of the people quoted:

Washington , D.C. –The Council for a Livable World’s Veterans Alliance for Security and Democracy (CLW-VETPAC ) announced its endorsement today of Sen. Barack Obama for President.

“Veterans understand what is needed for national leadership,” said Paul “Bud” Bucha, chairman of the group’s advisory council and a Medal of Honor recipient. “Barack Obama has demonstrated the judgment, energy, integrity, and temperament to be an outstanding commander in chief.”

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Senator Obama has strongly supported the legislative priorities of many non-partisan veterans groups while McCain has voted against them,” said Col. Richard Klass (USAF, ret.), president of CLW-VETPAC, noting that Sen. McCain receives low scores, especially in comparison to Obama, on legislative scorecards put out by the Disabled American Veterans (DAV), Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) and Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA).

So, let’s count them up now. Phil Carter, Vets for Obama, IAVA founder which claims Obama is better for Vets. Col Richard Klass, Co-chair of veterans for Obama, has VetPac which endorses Obama. Paul Bucha, advisor to Obama on Foreign Relations issues, spokesmen for aforementioned VetPac which endorsed Obama.

I thought there was a law against collusion between PACs and Campaigns? Maybe there’s a law against NOT being part of a PAC, I wasn’t listening closely in Election Law class.

On EDIT: VetPac is truly a vision of nonpartisanship though. They’ve endorsed 28 candidates and only 26 are Democrats. One is a Republican. Who’s still in school. And has no chance of winning. Another is a DFL candidate, but let’s not quibble and argue over that being the same as a Dem.

Oh, and when you go to the VetPac website for the GOP guy, it says they didn’t endorse him. So, maybe they only endorsed 27, and all are Dems. But again, they are nonpartisan, says that right there on their site, and no one ever lies on the inter-tubes.

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