obama..takes care of our vets

[dellinger63]

Support our troops (both active and retired) by voting the candidate overwhelmingly supported by them!

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Support our troops (both active and retired) by voting the candidate overwhelmingly supported by them!

Considering all the work Jill Biden and Michelle Obama have done for the troops, plus what Obama has done for them (no more secret coffin returns, repeal of DADT, ending war in Iraq, etc) and the three-years of kudos from the troops, and the way the President has always been welcomed by the troops on the ground - I'm guess who many of the troops support may not be whom you think.

I'm guessing they don't want to elect the guy who wants to send them to immediate war in Iran.

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

wrong

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Riot

Considering all the work Jill Biden and Michelle Obama have done for the troops, plus what Obama has done for them (no more secret coffin returns, repeal of DADT, ending war in Iraq, etc) and the three-years of kudos from the troops, and the way the President has always been welcomed by the troops on the ground - I'm guess who many of the troops support may not be whom you think.

I'm guessing they don't want to elect the guy who wants to send them to immediate war in Iran.

True statement

[Rudeboyelvis]

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

The CIA has requested more drones in the war against terror...

[Rudeboyelvis]

Originally Posted by bigrun

The CIA has requested more drones in the war against terror...

WTF does this mean?

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

WTF does this mean?

It means bigrun is the mildly retarded guy in the hoveround with the orange bike flag.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

WTF does this mean?

it means that we should keep up drone attacks that take out hundreds of people that aren't even on any terror list.
who needs gitmo when you just kill people? don't you think it's better that way? all the innocent bystanders taken out-well, they should have been living near a better sort of people.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by bigrun

True statement

Not suprisingly you and the village idiot are again wrong. If you want to support the troops support their candidate!

The Obama campaign had been hoping that veterans and their families — especially among the post-Sept. 11 generation that served in Iraq and Afghanistan — would be part of their path to victory: They’re a high turn-out demographic and concentrated in battleground states, with nearly 1 million each in North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia, and 1.6 million in Florida.

But recent polls make clear that the president’s campaign is losing the battle. Even as Obama leads in Colorado, Florida, Ohio and Virginia, Mitt Romney is up by double digits among veterans in those states. Nationwide, he’s got a commanding 20-percentage-point lead over Obama and has even overtaken the president with younger veterans.

Instead, even as Obama has been gaining in the overall polls, several NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls conducted from Sept. 9-11 had Romney well ahead of Obama among veterans in Florida, Ohio and Virginia. And in Colorado, a poll released Sept. 16 by SurveyUSA and the Denver Post found both veterans and military families supporting Romney over Obama 53 percent to 39 percent in a survey that included third-party candidates.

Back in May, Obama had the lead among Afghanistan and Iraq veterans. But a Reuters/Ipsos poll from September says that’s evaporated, with Romney now up 48 percent to 34 percent.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories...#ixzz2AEhkUY5n

[Danzig]

figured this was as good a place as any regarding talk on defense. i read that romney said during the debate that the us navy is smaller than at any time since 1916, the air force since 1947. so, i did some looking.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...7-air-force-s/


shocking that romney wasn't quite correct. note in the article that the navy actually is slightly larger ship number wise than during bushes terms. also, does anyone, anyone think that our navy is less than what it should be? that it's 'weaker' than what we had pre-ww1? or that our air force is not as good as post ww2?? that anyone is at all a threat to not exceed, but even match our firepower? does romney, or anyone, pay any attention at all to what our military actually has? what it can do?
there's a reason no country has attempted to attack us since japan got suddenly completely stupid in 1941. no one, no one, can match us militarily. not enough get to half of what we've got. and good christ, the amount of weaponry we could quickly produce because of our industrial capability-it's insane.

which is why i have said all along that romney is incorrect regarding defense spending.
when are people going to sit down and actually look at where most of our federal dollars are going? when will our political 'leaders' do something about this?

probably never.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Danzig

figured this was as good a place as any regarding talk on defense. i read that romney said during the debate that the us navy is smaller than at any time since 1916, the air force since 1947. so, i did some looking.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-me...7-air-force-s/


shocking that romney wasn't quite correct. note in the article that the navy actually is slightly larger ship number wise than during bushes terms. also, does anyone, anyone think that our navy is less than what it should be? that it's 'weaker' than what we had pre-ww1? or that our air force is not as good as post ww2?? that anyone is at all a threat to not exceed, but even match our firepower? does romney, or anyone, pay any attention at all to what our military actually has? what it can do?
there's a reason no country has attempted to attack us since japan got suddenly completely stupid in 1941. no one, no one, can match us militarily. not enough get to half of what we've got. and good christ, the amount of weaponry we could quickly produce because of our industrial capability-it's insane.

which is why i have said all along that romney is incorrect regarding defense spending.
when are people going to sit down and actually look at where most of our federal dollars are going? when will our political 'leaders' do something about this?

probably never.

Some folks cant see the hypocrisy of wanting a bigger defense budget and no defecit. I'll redboard. If we don't have these 2 unfunded wars, we don't have a defecit. Our enemies know the only way to defeat this country is to destroy its economy and it will crumble from the inside as we all turn against each other. They tried to do that on 9-11 and our leaders (Bush and Obama because we are still there) have helped them since. Now Romney wants to speed things up by increasing Military spending and go after Iran. I wont even get into him raising taxes of all of us to pay for his and his 1% ers tax cuts. And many of us who rile against the defecit are chomping at the bit to vote for him. Are we a reality challanged nation ?

[Danzig]

yeah, the math just doesn't work. he's going to cut taxes, increase defense spending, still fund medicare and ss as they are right now-how? if we can't pay our bills with the current tax rate, how will we with less revenue? magic?

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Support our troops (both active and retired) by voting the candidate overwhelmingly supported by them!

AKA President Obama right..