Obama targets vets for votes
The Washington Post‘s Amy Gardner reports that which we already know from reading the Reuters piece yesterday, that the Obama campaign is pressing veterans for their votes.
“There’s a different face of the American veteran now,” said Lauren Zapf, 30, a Navy veteran who served in the Persian Gulf and who spoke recently at a gathering in Northern Virginia for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Timothy M. Kaine. “The president’s stance on social policies, his work with military families, what he was doing with policy in both Iraq and Afghanistan — I appreciate that.”
Republicans concede the group’s new battleground status. “Veterans are truly a cross-section of the population,” Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell said in a recent interview. “I appreciate the fact that the president is engaging our warriors and their families.”
Yeah, well, the President did his best, when he was a Senator and before that to undermine the war effort, and now that he’s slipping among his 2008 voters in the polls, he thinks he can make up for that with veterans. And as we saw yesterday, the media is more than willing to help him out.
Like a discussion I had at the Carpool the other night with a young man who was trying to solicit my support for his particular organization, where were these people eight years ago? generally, they were giving hope to the enemy that all they had to do was wait us out and the Democrats would give them an easy victory.
For me the evidence of that was when the Democrats won the Congress in 2006 and George Bush started the surge. When the Iraqi resistance had thought that they had the US beat with the Democrat victory, instead, Bush sent more troops, proving that the Democrat’s bullshit talk about ending the war was coming from a position of weakness. Barack Obama was among them, voting every time the issue came up in the Senate to cut off funding for the war and leave the troops stranded. It was their only strategy against a successful conclusion for the war, because the troops were just their political pawns.
Remember, Harry Reid telling us that the surge had failed before it even began? Any complaints for Senator Obama?
While most veterans are older and more conservative, younger veterans who served more recently in Iraq and Afghanistan include more women and minorities. Politically, they are more reflective of the nation overall: independent-minded, less socially conservative and more supportive of the winding down of the two wars the president inherited.
In other words, he’s trying to attract the Ron Paulian veterans. Any that would jump over to Obama are lying to themselves. Like the soldier in yesterday’s discussion who said he likes his guns, but is supporting Obama. How long does he think his guns will last in an administration that doesn’t have to run for office again – not to mention the aging and ailing Supreme Court judges who will replaced in the next four years.
“Before 2008, nobody talked about military families,” said Rob Diamond, who served in Iraq and is the Obama campaign’s vote director for veterans and military families. “Military families have become part of the national conversation. Americans realize that when you have an all-volunteer military, the sacrifice is not just by the service members but their families, too.”
Yeah, nobody talked about military families, well, except the Bush Administration who mentioned almost every day since the war began. And since Obama didn’t mention them in 2008, no one talked about them, I suppose, because nothing happens without Obama doing it. Like that “Got Your 6” bullshit that I caught flack for not supporting this weekend. Yeah, sure, I’m all for some support for the troops and their family, even at this late date, but where the hell were these jerkwads for the last ten years? And they had to wait for the president to tell them it’s OK to support the troops? Please. Stop urinating on my leg.
Just like IAVA morphed from their anti-Bush website OpTruth, a leopard can’t change it’s spots, and a skunk can’t change the fact that he stinks.
Category: 2012 election, Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Military issues
Well said, as usual, but I gotta pick one nit.
…but where the hell were these jerkwads for the last ten years?
How ’bout the last 40 years? Might be a different generation, but the song is the same.
YMMV
Not if I had a gun to my head. Fuck that elitist prick.
The Dems have never, will never, be about “supporting the troops.” I’ve got about 90 years of evidence to back that assertion. Most recently, I’ve got the VA budget to consider. I’ve got the DoD budget to consider.
But since our little libtard friends are so eager to trot out the “selected not elected” and “stolen election” horsecrap, let’s look at that, shall we? Veteran absentee ballots were scrapped on the most flimsy of excuses, or in some cases, no excuse at all–and why, you may ask? Simple–particularly since the implementation of the all-volunteer force, politiical leanings of enlisted run about 2-1 GOP versus Democrat. In the officer ranks, it’s closer to 3-1.
Look at the issues with absentee balloting from overseas ever since 2002. Every other year, some state or county has to be sued, or just blows off mailing ballots on time for them to be returned by Election Day. Most of these states/counties are in Dem strongholds.
Anyone who would like to challenge my assertions, please do. It’s Monday, and I just kinda feel like killing something today.
You know I actually wrote a post about this. If you crunch the numbers right now theres something like 10 million Veterans in America. Their representation in the military is proportionate to US ethnic proportions, but here’s the kicker, they are one of the smallest minorities in America. Despite that every election cycle enormous amounts of effort is put into getting veteran support. Why? Zero is a survivalist, John is cantankerous and argumentative StrikeFO is a smartass as is Maggie, and Jimbo… What a character.
And yet well to do, high up muckity mucks not only care what you think, and more than that want to get you on their side. I think personally it’s a VERY nice turn around from say ’68-’75 timeframe
Anybody thinking of voting for that elitist SOB should check out, if I’m allowed to mention it, Military.com. A retired Marine called Kegler has an excellent thread up on Point/Counter point explaining the “wons” childhood all the way through the present.
Anybody born into that family, raised the way he was would more than likely turn out to be a Marxist, Communist as dickwad has.
Read that thread and tell me you will still vote for the ass clown and by damn, I’ll call you an ass clown, too!
I’ve been around since before WW2 and have seen some sorry assed presidents, Peanut Carter comes to mind, but none as sorry assed as der Fuhrer, Obama.
Rant off.
Not if “He” were the last remaining politician on Earth. . . . .
“Obama targets vets for votes” —
Oh yeah ??
“War Veteran targets B.O. WITH votes” — how about that, instead ??
Frankly, it seems like most of them are just trying to re-elect Obama more then actually to help veterans.
It’s funny how the targeting of vets has shifted in the past 3 years. I guess we’re supposed to forget how Obama’s DHS called us all a bunch of domestic terrorists waiting to be created, now that it’s election time and his stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure presidency isn’t so easy to hide.
From being targeted as terrorists, now we’re targeted for campaign cash to pay the Union goons running the voting machines. Surprised DFAS hasn’t received an EO deducting money to Obama’s re-election campaign. Or did I just let the cat out of the bag?
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Oh, the domestic terrorists are the “older and more conservative” servicemembers. Obama only wants the votes of the “independent-minded” and “less socially conservative” ones.
You know, the privates and the 2nd Lieutenants.