This is what Palin said:
“I guess it’s kind of the elephant in the room because my own family going through what we’re going through today with my son, a combat vet ... like so many others, they come back a bit different. They come back hardened,” Palin said at the rally. “They come back wondering if there is that respect for what their fellow soldiers and airmen and every other member of the military so sacrificially have given to the country.”
She then said that she related to other families who “feel these ramifications of PTSD” and said it was crucial that veterans “have a commander-in-chief who will respect them.”
“They have to question if they’re respected anymore,” she said. “It starts from the top. The question, though, that comes from our own president where they have to look at him and wonder, ‘Do you know what we go through? Do you know what we’re trying to do to secure America?’”
I am not a big Palin fan but having talked to hundreds of vets in the last ten years I cannot disagree with what she said. There has been a change in returning vets and I blame Obama for the negative tone of the country and the VA.
I don’t care if Obama personally singled out her son as a bad soldier and a disgrace to America...it is no excuse for committing a crime.
Thank you for the info. I wasn’t aware of that. However, he may very well be suffering from PTSD. I’m not a mental health professional so I am not qualified to say whether he is or is not. Yet, I still don’t see where she blamed Obama. Rather, what she said was that our Vets question his judgement and state of mind regarding his concern for their welfare. As I see it, that is a perfectly viable and tame position.
Besides all of that, I just plain hate Obama and think he’s a total douche.