For Veterans, There's No Clear Difference Between Obama And Romney Plans

TBI ^ | 10-15-2012 | Walter Hickey

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For Veterans, There's No Clear Difference Between Obama And Romney Plans

Walter Hickey
October 15, 2012

In an election where most issues are cutthroat and divisive, the presidential candidates' split on veterans issues is actually surprising minimal.

In short, both candidates support veterans and have plans that confer on them special privileges and benefits.

While there are some distinctions, neither candidate has come out in favor of slashing benefits or cutting the G.I. Bill.

Here are the plans:

The Obama plan

Obama right now is standing on a pretty strong record of accomplishment on veterans' issues. His first term performance has actually led some to believe that veterans — a group that historically tends to vote with Republicans — could electorally be in play in the 2012 presidential election.

The president has so far largely delivered on his promise to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and has aggressively pursued strategies to incentivize the hiring of unemployed or wounded veterans, including a 2011 tax credit to businesses that hire vets. According to his campaign, the Obama administration has so far motivated 1,600 companies to commit to hiring more veterans.

The president also has campaigned on providing PTSD treatment at VA medical centers. And on the campaign trail, he has also touted his implementation of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, which covers in-state tuition at no cost for veterans.

The Romney Plan

Romney's plan is less clear on statistics and numbers than Obama' plan, but by and large he supports most of the same things that the president has pushed for.

There are, however, some key differences:

Romney wants to focus on revamping the bureaucracy at the Department of Veterans Affairs, which has been bogged down with claims and long wait times as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

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[blam]

This guy is dreaming if he thinks Vets will vote for Obama.

[fortheDeclaration]

Yes indeed.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Look for Obama to try to disqualify a good chunk of military votes, as well as make it hard for those who want to vote.

[Snuph]

What a crock. The Zero plan is just that zero for Veterans. Look at his actions over the last 4 years not the words being spouted in the campaign.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Ask anyone you know who is currently in the military, and who has been in there for more than 4 years how Obama cares about them.

[traditional1]

First, notwithstanding the errors of making Military Service all-volunteer previously by others, The Messiah has turned it into a haven for sex deviates and has sissified the entire culture of the Military. Softness in Training, females in war zones, and destruction of the Rules of Engagement to the extent that shooting back is about the only option that doesn't bring Investigations and Court Martials when it is politically expedient to sacrifice someone in pursuit of Muslim Appeasement.

How any moron could think REAL Military Personnel (not the faggots and dykes who are there for "good times") would NEVER vote for a Foreign-Born America-Hating Muslim. Why are Military ballots ALWAYS delayed, lost, or un-counted in EVERY Election?

[uncommonsense]

I... I... I... I...

vs.

We the people.. the patriots... our best...

Yep, both the same...

[ETL]

Oh, no? Romney didn't launch his political career in the living room of a pair of revolutionary communist terrorists. Anti-American low-lives who bombed the Pentagon and many other military facilities.

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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
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From American Thinker, September 16, 2008
Article: Obama's Foul Weather Friends
By Scott Swett and Roger Canfield

"As a gesture of solidarity, the Vietnamese who [Bernardine] Dohrn met in Budapest presented her with a ring made from an American aircraft shot down over North Vietnam. Bill Ayers would receive a similar ring while meeting with Vietnamese communists in Toronto. He later recalled being so moved by the gesture that he 'left the room to cry.' "

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/obamas_foul_weather_friends.html
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1>
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs [ie, rich people], then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09

[ETL]

BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAVE
FRIENDS WHO BOMBED THE PENTAGON
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From HumanEvents.com, April 29, 2008:
"By all accounts, he [Obama friend and associate, Bill Ayers] was a ferocious, violent, revolutionary Marxist in his halcyon days as a Weatherman leader. He and his Weatherman bombers were enamored of Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung -- indeed, all the murderous heroes on the Left. Referring to the Weatherman members in August 1969, he said (according to the FBI): 'We’re revolutionary Communists.'

He got off on the group’s multiple explosions, too, and discusses them rather lovingly in his memoir.

Ideal Bombing Weather:
'Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,' he writes (although he concedes it was really a group effort). 'The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.' (p. 256 in the 2003 edition.)

Article: Obama and His Weatherman Friends
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26243
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Pentagon attack, Sept 11, 2001

[ETL]

BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAVE
FRIENDS WHO WANTED TO BOMB FORT DIX

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
March 6, 1970: "three members of the Weather Underground accidentally killed themselves in a Manhattan townhouse while attempting to build a powerful bomb they had intended to plant at a social dance in Fort Dix, New Jersey -- an event that was to be attended by U.S. Army soldiers. Hundreds of lives could have been lost had the plot been successfully executed."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

"The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
The bomb was packed with nails to inflict maximum casualties upon detonation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)#Chronology_of_events
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2007 Fort Dix attack plot

A group of six radical Islamist[1] men, allegedly plotting to stage an attack on the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey, United States, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 7, 2007. They were subsequently charged with planning an attack against U.S. soldiers. The alleged aim of the six men was said to be to "kill as many soldiers as possible".[2] Their trial began on October 20, 2008. [3]

Opening arguments were presented on October 20, 2008.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Fitzpatrick said the defendants were inspired by jihad saying "Their motive was to defend Islam. Their inspiration was Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Dix_plot

[ETL]

From the Chicago Sun Times, November 13, 2008:

Ayers: Obama was 'family friend'
New afterword to 2001 book, Ayers describes Barack Obama as 'family friend'

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1278532,bill-ayers-barack-obama-book-111308.article#

[HarleyD]

Funny the author doesn’t mention Obama’s crowning achievement by Obama’s own words, ending the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

[AZLiberty]

Where’s the barf alert? Do veterans not care if this country becomes another failed socialist state?

[mountainlion]

I would vote for Obama for dog catcher and chief in Kenya. Obama said that he thinks that veterans should pay their own hospital bills. His death panels would probably target Veterans. john ,The traitor, Kerry has accused Viet nam veterans of being baby killers and war criminals and accused current veterans of being like Genghis Kong and terrorizing civilians. Now the Baby Killers are the Democrats with their war on the unborn.

[APatientMan]

What will Romney do about don’t ask, don’t tell?

[dirtymac]

He believes that Vets, like other Democratic base, only vote based upon what someone will give them. Vets are not Vets because of the goodies that they will recieve. They are Vets because they honorably served their country.

[ETL]

I would vote for Obama for dog catcher [in-chief] in Kenya.

Not me! I love dogs!

"The Daily Caller noted that in President Obama’s best-selling memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, the president recalls being fed dog meat as a young boy in Indonesia with his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro.

“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy),” the president wrote. “Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths.

He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”"

http://abcnewsradioonline.com/politics-news/obama-ate-dog-meat-as-a-boy.html

I assume you meant "dog catcher-in-chief", as opposed to "dog catcher and chief"?

[mountainlion]

I would vote for Obama for dog catcher [in-chief] in Kenya.

Dog catcher and cook!

[Gil4]

One thing I will say - he is willing to spend other people’s money if it will buy votes.

[Tennessee Nana]

What will Romney do about don’t ask, don’t tell?
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He refuses to reinstate it...

Plus he wants gays in the military...

Plus hes the father of gay marriage in MASS...