Obama, McCain Battle Over Vets -- And Why That's A Great Thing

The Carpetbagger Report:

I've been obsessing over John McCain's incoherent opposition to a modernized GI Bill for veterans, so I was especially pleased to see Barack Obama, at a campaign stop in West Virginia, help elevate the issue and hammer McCain for his misguided position. From the speech:

"When our troops go into battle, they serve no faction or party; they represent no race or region. They are simply Americans. They serve and fight and bleed together out of loyalty not just to a place on a map or a certain kind of people, but to a set of ideals that we have been striving for since the first shots rang out at Lexington and Concord - the idea that America could be governed not by men, but by laws; that we could be equal in the eyes of those laws; that we could be free to say what we want and write what want and worship as we please; that we could have the right to pursue our individual dreams but the obligation to help our fellow citizens pursue theirs.

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[MRb1000]

I spoke with retired and active duty veterans(officers and enlisted. They all say they pick Obama over John McCain. They all want the troops to come home. They state they did there job and now it is time to come home. They do not like being policeman. The state they are just getting blown up driving around a country with people that dose not like them. Most military men and women know these people have be fighting for hundreds of years. They will have to settle this depute among themselves.

AMERICA THE VETERANS HAVE DONE THEIR PART! LETS BRING THE BOYS AND GIRLS HOME!!

[LeftVetPatriot]

The Hanoi Songbird's tune is a mournful cry.

[Truthfighter1]

How can a Veteran of McCains stature not support fellow Veterans, and I've done some research, this is not the first time he's looked over them, he's an Elitist.

[Truthfighter1]

Obama continued to say :


“There is no reason we shouldn’t pass the 21st Century GI Bill that is being debated in Congress right now. It was introduced by my friend Senator Jim Webb, a Marine who served as Navy Secretary under President Ronald Reagan. His plan has widespread support from Republicans and Democrats. It would provide every returning veteran with a real chance to afford a college education, and it would not harm retention.

“I have great respect for John McCain’s service to this country and I know he loves it dearly and honors those who serve. But he is one of the few Senators of either party who oppose this bill because he thinks it’s too generous. I couldn’t disagree more. At a time when the skyrocketing cost of tuition is pricing thousands of Americans out of a college education, we should be doing everything we can to give the men and women who have risked their lives for this country the chance to pursue the American Dream.”

[Truthfighter1]

Obama said :

“When our troops go into battle, they serve no faction or party; they represent no race or region. They are simply Americans. They serve and fight and bleed together out of loyalty not just to a place on a map or a certain kind of people, but to a set of ideals that we have been striving for since the first shots rang out at Lexington and Concord - the idea that America could be governed not by men, but by laws; that we could be equal in the eyes of those laws; that we could be free to say what we want and write what want and worship as we please; that we could have the right to pursue our individual dreams but the obligation to help our fellow citizens pursue theirs.

“[W]hen our loved ones do come home, it is time for the United States of America to offer this generation of returning heroes the same thanks we offered that earlier, Greatest Generation - by giving every veteran the same opportunity that my grandfather had under the GI Bill.

[obamanation31]

I don't undrestand why Mr. McCain is agains the GI bill either.