Veterans
From Johnmccain.com
John McCain really puts the srews to Obama in his response to Obama's remarks concerning Veterans.
"Perhaps, if Senator Obama would take the time and trouble to understand this issue he would learn to debate an honest disagreement respectfully. But, as he always does, he prefers impugning the motives of his opponent, and exploiting a thoughtful difference of opinion to advance his own ambitions. If that is how he would behave as President, the country would regret his election." - John McCain
ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain issued the following statement on Senator Barack Obama's remarks concerning veterans benefits:
"It is typical, but no less offensive that Senator Obama uses the Senate floor to take cheap shots at an opponent and easy advantage of an issue he has less than zero understanding of. Let me say first in response to Senator Obama, running for President is different than serving as President. The office comes with responsibilities so serious that the occupant can't always take the politically easy route without hurting the country he is sworn to defend. Unlike Senator Obama, my admiration, respect and deep gratitude for America's veterans is something more than a convenient campaign pledge. I think I have earned the right to make that claim.
"When I was five years old, a car pulled up in front of our house in New London, Connecticut, and a Navy officer rolled down the window, and shouted at my father that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. My father immediately left for the submarine base where he was stationed. I rarely saw him again for four years. My grandfather, who commanded the fast carrier task force under Admiral Halsey, came home from the war exhausted from the burdens he had borne, and died the next day. I grew up in the Navy; served for twenty-two years as a naval officer; and, like Senator Webb, personally experienced the terrible costs war imposes on the veteran. The friendships I formed in war remain among the closest relationships in my life. The Navy is still the world I know best and love most. In Vietnam, where I formed the closest friendships of my life, some of those friends never came home to the country they loved so well. read more »
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Here is a clip from Sen. John McCain's remarks to a Vets for Freedom rally in Washington, D.C., April 8, 2008, just ahead of Gen. David Petraeus' report to the Senate Armed Services Committee on the situation in Iraq.
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Here is video in three parts of today's speech (April 7, 2008) by Sen. John McCain to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri. From the introduction McCain received, it is clear how VFW feels about the need to elect a President who will not say with words alone he/she "supports the troops," but will prove it by supporting the mission they have sacrificed and died for as well. McCain delivers a great speech here, making it clear that the Democrats are offering a recipe for disaster in calling for a "reckless and irresponsible retreat from Iraq," a plan that would lead to even greater sacrifice and bloodshed in the future. (NOTE: The volume on the videos is quite low - so turn up the sound on your computer):
PART I
PART II
PART III
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Monday, April 7, 2008
ARLINGTON, VA -- U.S. Senator John McCain will deliver the following remarks as prepared for delivery to the members of the National VFW Headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri, at 9:45 a.m. CST:
Thank you. It is an honor to be here today. I'm always grateful to be in the company of Americans who have had the burden of serving our country in distant lands, and the honor of having proved your patriotism in difficult circumstances. Your example is a constant reminder to Americans that we have obligations to our country that are greater than our personal ambitions, and that our self-respect will owe more to how faithfully we keep those obligations than any other success we achieve in life. Among those obligations is to debate honestly issues that involve America's future security because so many Americans have sacrificed everything to keep us secure. All that is asked of the rest of us is that we do not dishonor their sacrifice by treating the cause they served so bravely as an opportunity to argue without wisdom; to divide us without care for the consequences; to advance our individual or partisan interests at the expense of America's security . read more »
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Note by Nelsa: Here is McCain's current positon on Veteran issues:
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From TheHill.com
Webb urges McCain to sign onto GI bill
By Roxana Tiron
Posted: 03/19/08 01:06 PM [ET]
Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) is calling on presumptive GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) to sign on as a co-sponsor to his GI bill, which would improve educational benefits to veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.“McCain needs to get on the bill,” Webb told reporters after a Christian Science Monitor breakfast meeting on Wednesday. He said legislation mirroring the post-World War II GI bill should not be considered a “political issue.”
Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Il.), the Democratic presidential candidates, both have signed on to the bill.
In a major coup for Webb, Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), the former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, signed on as a co-sponsor earlier this month. Warner is a close ally of McCain, who is the ranking member on Armed Services. Warner has often been the committee’s top Republican with McCain
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Our troops deserve a qualified Commander in Chief
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John McCain was campaigning today in Ohio, and advocated in behalf of better health care for Veterans in a Toledo stop.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Thursday that better care is needed for injured soldiers coming home from Iraq.
McCain said he wants all veterans to have an electronic health care card that is good at all hospitals. Veterans should not be forced to drive to faraway Veterans Affairs hospitals, he said.
"Too often today, veterans who have a health care need have to go down to the VA and wait in line and wait in line," he said. "That's not right."
McCain's brief stop in suburban Toledo at a diner followed a news conference where he denied a romantic relationship with a female telecommunications lobbyist. He said a report by The New York Times suggesting favoritism for her clients is "not true."
The Arizona senator, well ahead in the race for the party's nomination, shook hands and signed menus at the diner where some customers stood on their seats to see him.
He told customers that U.S. troops are now winning the war in Iraq.
"I know Ohio is divided by this war," he said. "Thank God none of us are divided in our support for the men and women who are serving this nation."
McCain, who also attended a private fundraiser in the Toledo area, said he knows that Ohio's manufacturers are struggling and that helping people find jobs must be a priority. He promised to put more money into worker training at community colleges to help the unemployed.
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