[Maelstorm]

This is a real barf alert. The left has no shame. They really think people are idiots.

[Da Coyote]

Any true veteran loathes Obama. After all, military service involves honor, integrity, and the ability to perform actions to perfection.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Ridiculous.

DeMint is one of the only Senators with intact values and a clear conscience. Even folks who don’t agree with him have to respect that.

[mgc1122]

This leftist group used to be called Operation Truth. Same old crap. New more “patriotic” wrapper.

[weegee]

“IAVA did not credit McCain for the bill he sponsored with Graham and Burr because the group opposed it and threw its full support behind Webb’s bill. “

Then they are useful tools promoting Democrats and not policy. Soviet agitprop at its finest.

[relictele]

Anyone who tells you he is ‘influential’ probably isn’t.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Bullsh*t. I’m a veteran and never heard of these maggots.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Here’s all any Conservative needs to know about Barrack Hussein Obama:

Special Interest Group Ratings:

Planned Parenthood - 100% Support
National Right To Life - 0% Support
NARAL - 100% Support
Americans for Tax Reform - 0% Support
ACLU - 83% Support
NEA - 100% Support
NOW Hags - 100% Support
Citizens Against Government Waste - 13% Support
Gun Owners of America - 0% Support
NRA - “F” Rating
Federation for American Immigration Reform - 0% Support
US Border Patrol - 8% Support
Unions - 82% - 100% Support
Population Connection - 100% Support (These are the ‘Zero Growth’ freaks)

http://vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=BS030017

[Barrack Hussein Obama’s record in the Illinois senate:]

- Opposed the Defense of Marriage Act; would work to repeal it in the U.S. Senate; would not vote for any legislation that would restrict the ability of gays and lesbians to marry.
- Opposed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act four times in Illinois. A similar bill passed the U.S. Senate 98-0. The Born Alive bill would have prohibited a baby from being born alive but left to die according to the mother’s wishes. Obama inexplicably opposed this bill not once, twice, or three times, but four times.
- Obama took almost $90,000 in bundled contributions from the Council for a Livable World. The council is a well-known anti-defense organization.
- Obama puts rigid ideology before what’s best for the people of Illinois, and presumably he would do that as President as well. He has on several occasions made public his opposition to the NAFTA trade agreement and his belief that it must be negotiated. All the while thanks to NAFTA, Illinois exports $1.3 billion in agricultural goods to Canada.
- Obama refused to vote for a bill in the Illinois State Senate that would have increased penalties for drug traffickers.
- Obama voted against a bill that would have delivered the death penalty to gang members who murder first responders.
- Finally, just in case you thought it couldn’t get any worse, Obama was the only member of the Illinois State Senate to vote against a bill that prohibited early release for sexual predators.

Can’t kill the innocent fast enough, can’t free the guilty soon enough!

Here’s all any Conservative needs to know about Joe Biden:

Special Interest Group Ratings:

NARAL: 100%
Planned Parenthood: 100%
National Right to Life: 0%
Sportsmen and Animals Alliance: 0%
The Humane Society: 100%
National Tax Limitation Committee: “F” Grade
Americans for Tax Reform: 10%
National Association of Manufacturers: 0%
ACLU: 92 - 100%
NAACP: 100%
Iranian American PAC: 100%
NEA: A+ Rating (Teacher’s Union)
League of Conservation Voters: 100%
Family Research Council: “O” Rating
Citizen’s for Global Solutions: A+ Rating
Jews for Peace in Palestine & Israel: -1%
Brady Campaign: 95-100% (Gun Grabbers)
NRA: “F” Rating
American Immigration Lawyers Association: 100%
AFL-CIO: 100% (Near 100% ratings on ALL Unions)
Center for Security Policy: 21%
Population Connection: 100% (These are the ‘Zero-Growth’ freaks)
All “End Poverty Now By Throwing Money Down a Rathole” groups: 100%

This guy is to the LEFT of Obama, if you can imagine it!

http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=53279

[Skid Marx]

Another astroturf artifact to wave in front of the peasants. I wonder how many will actually believe any of this?

[Jeff Head]

Influential, non-partisan my rear end. Needs a huge BS meter on this one.

The truth is this, John McCain is having Sarah Palin revamp her vaunted Moose hunting skills into the biggest Jack-Ass hunt of all time. And there's nothing but a target rich environment for her with the MSM and in Washington, DC.

Knock 'em down, field dress 'em, skin 'em, and send what's left packin'.

SARAH PALIN IS DRAWING HUGE CROWDS AT RALLIES ALL ACROSS THE NATION

[DesScorp]

This is an anti-war leftist group, formed by Paul Reichoff. He’s on Racheal Maddow’s show on Air America every single week.

[PurpleMan]

Earlier post:

Military Times Poll: Troops backing McCain 68% to 23%

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098214/posts

[FlingWingFlyer]

I wonder if this PAC has any real veterans in it or if it’s made up of all “associate members.”

[svcw]

Ridiculous.
My niece is in the Air Force and she told me she knows no one who is supporting Barry. That includes black Air Force men and women she works with.

[G.Mason]

0bama the magic negro ... the gift that keeps on giving.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Nice to see that Harry “The war is lost” Reid (D-Nev.) got an A+ from these posers.

[SamuraiScot]

IAVA has about 105,000 members

If you look at IAVA's site, you'll notice that being an actual veteran is not a prerequisite for membership. Cute, eh?

Rieckhoff went to Amherst, where he was student body President, did one tour in Iraq early in the war (not in a particularly hazardous area, IIRC), and then came back and started this anti-Republican group, IAVA. After offering the Democratic response to one of W's State of the Union addresses. I don't think he mentioned cutting off eyes and ears, or Jenjiss Khan, but I'm sure you see a parallel.

This alleged veterans' group (you won't see any stats on how many of his members really are vets) is non-partisan like Katie Couric. For instance, before the surge, they criticized the war strategy, saying there weren't enough troops. The next month, when the surge was announced, they opposed it, saying adding more troops wouldn't do any good.

[areukiddingme1]

The fact of the matter is — these guy’s are a very cheap imitation knock off of the real thing —

http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/

The IAVA are essentially a shell/front for a group of lawyers assembled to rally veterans around the DNC...they are an absolute joke. Pay no attention to them.

However, Vets for Freedom...these guy’s are the real deal and are deserving of your time and attention.

God Bless Vets for Freedom — they are doing great work for America’s Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

There is an advertising campaign on right now for an organization called IAVA. Its website is given as CommunityOfVeterans.org. It sounds very high minded.

But it was started as an organization called “Operation Truth” during 2004 as part of the Kerry campaign.

This organization is funded by George Soros and is designed to make veterans think they are victimized by the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and persuade them of marxist thought. They claim to be non-partisan, but if they are, why were all the candidates they supported for election to federal office in 2006 Democrats?

Now they are advertising on Glenn Beck’s show. (Or the Ad Council is running their crap on Fox News.)

My husband saw a bunch of their billboards in the poorer area of Fresno and started wondering what was going on. I started researching and had to dig, but when you finally get to the military blogs, they are very aware of these phonies (and very angry about it).

This campaign is linked to the White House through a man named Phil Carter. Here is what BlackFive said about this guy:

...IAVA... lists Phil Carter, of Intel Dump, as a Founder. We took issue with Phil, as Director of Veterans for Obama, passing off the IAVA scorecard without disclosing that he is a Founder of the IAVA. The scorecard is clearly slanted in favor of Democrats and Senator Obama.

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/10/time-for-honest.html

Here’s how Phil Carter came to work in the White House:

http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=8453

Phil Carter was a lawyer and a Washington Post columnist before getting called up to the Obama campaign as the candidate’s veteran adviser. [He filed an amicus brief in Hamden vs. Rumsfeld!]

“If you read our posts last Fall about Carter and his connections to both the campaign and the IAVA, you already know that IAVA and Phil Carter colluded to split veterans and active duty service members from the McCain campaign by ginning up a phony “scorecard” that made it appear that politicians like Duncan Hunter had a worse record of support than Baghdad Jim McDermott. Well, that worked well for Carter, because he’s now the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs.”

This issue is all over the military blogs.

Some of Carter’s articles for the Washington Post:

Petraeus Overplays His Hand
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/inteldump/2008/04/the_reality_is_it_is_hard_in_i.html

Irrelevant Exuberance - Why the latest good news from Iraq doesn’t matter.
http://www.slate.com/id/2171510/

The Road to Abu Ghraib
The biggest scandal of the Bush administration began at the top.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0411.carter.html

The Case for the Draft
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0503.carter.html
More from the MilBlogs:

http://www.snooperreport.com/snooper-report/2009/4/10/copy-cat-frauds-of-the-iava.html

http://www.thevfw.blogspot.com/2009/05/iava-chief-rieckhoff-disses-vietnam.html

I found out from Google that the co-founder Paul Rieckhoff was on Rachel Maddow’s show this year:
‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ for February 26, 2009 - Rachel Maddow ...
...Coming up: Paul Rieckhoff from Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America will join us. ..... Number two, check out IAVA’s “CommunityofVeterans.org. ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/.../msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/

I hope Fox can refuse to air these ads. This campaign is reprehensible.