Obama Veterans

Obama Tells Vet He'll Improve Veteran Services

AP | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

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ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A military veteran who's now a college student in Pennsylvania has taken his complaint about the Veterans Administration right ...

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Obama To VFW: Afghan War "Fundamental" To U.S. Security

AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

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PHOENIX — President Barack Obama chastised the defense industry and a freespending Congress on Monday for wasting tax dollars "with doctrine and...

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President Obama Fulfills Two Critical Campaign Promises to Vets

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics

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Our nation's heroes deserve much more than lost paperwork and endless delays. Today, we are finally turning the page on this horrific chapter in our nation's history.

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Ryan Grim

Obama Backs Off Plan To Bill Private Insurers For Vets' Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

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President Obama has backed off a proposal to charge veterans' private health care plans for treatment related to combat injuries, Speaker Nancy Pelosi...

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Dems Fuming Over White House Plan To Make Vets Pay For Service Injuries

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics

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Democrats in Congress are organizing to squash a White House proposal that would require veterans to use private insurance to pay for treatment of the...

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Show Us the Money: Iraq Veterans React to the VA Budget

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

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Veterans' funding is about $1.2 billion higher than the amount recommended by leading veterans' organizations, but Obama's budget is still not a slam dunk for veterans.

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Obama Bringing Troops Home: Are We Ready to Welcome Them?

Paul Rieckhoff | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics

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Paul Rieckhoff

Whether it is 16 months or 19 months or 23 months, whether the residual force is 10,000 or 50,000 troops, the president's new plan will create a surge of new veterans coming home in 2009 and 2010. We need to be ready.

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How Obama Is Winning Veterans

Peter J. Ognibene | Posted 11.21.2008 | Home

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Peter J. Ognibene

Colin Powell's announcement on Sunday that he is supporting Barack Obama for President dominated the news, as well as it should. The chattering class ...

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Sam Stein

Obama Launches Ad Touting His Support Among Veterans

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama is out with a new campaign ad that includes a cadre of veterans -- including 2006 congressional candidate Tammy Duckworth -- vouching for...

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Obama, McCain, and Our Veterans

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

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Marcia G. Yerman

Many may not know that Obama's name was placed in nomination by a man who identified himself as "a life-long Republican and an Iraq war veteran." His name is Michael Wilson; he served as an Air Force medic.

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Will Someone Please Make Obama Watch the McCain Version of the Katrina DVD?

Marty Kaplan | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics

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The last Democratic presidential candidate who failed to engage, who abjured ruthlessness because it wasn't consistent with the noble kind of politics he wanted America to practice, was Michael Dukakis.

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John McCain And The Vets

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 09.11.2008 | Home

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Verne distrusts McCain's promises to do more for veterans. "As soon as he's in office, he'll forget all about us," he says. But Verne is quick to stand when McCain enters the room, saluting the candidate's service and sacrifice.

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Obama, McCain Take A Break From Fighting For Memorial Day

The Huffington Post | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

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This Memorial Day weekend, Obama extended what has been seen as a temporary olive branch to Republican rival John McCain after a week of tough fightin...

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

The Carpetbagger Report | Steve Benen | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics

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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...

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