Source: sandandglass
“40 Republicans senators thought it would be wrong to spend $1 billion on a bill to reintegrate veterans into the domestic workforce, partly because of the amount of money we had already gladly spent on wars that made them veterans in the first place.”
via: think4yourself
“Right now, about 60 percent of the American people get more benefits, in dollar value, from the federal government than they pay back in taxes. So we’re going to a majority of takers vs. makers in America.” — Paul Ryan
Watch a collection of rarely seen video of Paul Ryan, explaining his Ayn Randian view that “many citizens are just takers, parasites who leech off productive citizens, the makers.”
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Mother Jones: “Ryan has also warned about President Barack Obama creating “more of a permanent class of government dependents”—language that echoes Romney’s take on the “47 percent who are with [Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.”
“As you can see in this series of charts, “government dependents” aren’t who you necessarily think they are. Many people who don’t pay federal income taxes are superrich or well off. Another 60 percent of Americans who don’t pay income tax are working; they just don’t make enough money to owe taxes. Most of the rest are retired folks, students, and members of the military serving in combat zones.”
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Roll Call: Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) joined President Barack Obama in Virginia Beach today and issued a stinging attack on Mitt Romney’s failure to mention veterans during his presidential nomination acceptance speech, while also noting that Romney did not serve in the military.
“They will not say this, so I will say it for them. They are owed, if nothing else, at least a mention, some word of thanks and respect, when a presidential candidate who is their generational peer makes a speech accepting his party’s nomination to be commander in chief,” Webb said, according to his prepared remarks. “And they are owed much more than that – a guarantee that we will never betray the commitment that we made to them and to their loved ones.”
The former Marine and Navy secretary appeared to poke at Romney for receiving draft deferments during the Vietnam War.
“Gov. Romney and I are about the same age. Like millions of others in our generation, we came to adulthood facing the harsh realities of the Vietnam War,” Webb said, adding that he didn’t envy or resent choices people made about how to handle the draft as a long as they did so under the law.
“But those among us who stepped forward to face the harsh unknowns and the lifelong changes that can come from combat did so with the belief that their service would be honored and that our leaders would, in the words of President Abraham Lincoln, care for those who had borne the battle, and for their widows and their children.”
The veterans of that war “are not bitter. They know what they did. But in receiving veterans’ benefits, they are not takers. They were givers, in the ultimate sense of that word. There is a saying among war veterans: ‘All gave some, some gave all.’ This is not a culture of dependency. It is a part of a long tradition that gave this country its freedom and independence.”
Photos: 1) Jason Reed / Reuters 2) Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP 3) Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images / September 27, 2012
Fox’s Bret Baier queries Romney on why he didn’t mention the troops or the war in his speech at the Republican National Convention.
BAIER: A few more things, Governor. To hear several speakers in Charlotte – and I don’t think this is jump (?) – they were essentially saying you don’t care about the U.S. military because you didn’t mention U.S. troops and the war in Afghanistan in your nomination acceptance speech. (….) Do you regret opening up this line of attack, now a recurring attack, by leaving out that issue in the speech?
ROMNEY: I only regret you repeating it day in and day out. (LAUGHS)
BAIER: Well I mean, what just came from Charlotte -
ROMNEY: Because when you give a speech, you don’t give a laundry list. You talk about the things that uh you think are important.
I’ve cut him off right there, deliberately. Romney would go on to give the lamest of excuses, that he had indeed mentioned the military in his speech, that he’d visited an American Legion the day before, and that he absolutely opposed cuts in military spending, and so on. A better answer — and a better man– would have just owned up to this error, admitted it, and perhaps gotten some props for honesty. But that man wouldn’t be Willard Mitt Romney.
There are two potentially accidental revelations there: 1) that he regrets the media has picked up on this rather embarrassing (I would think) omission of his not mentioning the troops — INSTEAD of regretting he didn’t mention them! And 2) Romney thinks mentioning the troops would be like reading a laundry list instead of talking about important things.
Remember if you elect this guy, he’ll be more than happy to send the laundry list (i.e. YOUR sons and daughters) overseas to fight the GOP’s Forever Wars: Next Stop, Iran!
But honestly, if you support Romney, would you really expect anything less from a “fortunate son” who received years worth of deferments from the Vietnam draft to hide out in a mansion in France? You’ve picked yourselves a real winner there, Republicans.
Long on biography but short on policy.
Think Progress lists 9 items Romney either didn’t bring up — or that were mentioned in passing — in his acceptance speech last night. “[F]or a candidate who chose Paul Ryan as his running mate to signal a willingness to take on big challenges, Romney spent precious few — if any — words discussing some of the country’s most pressing problems and even less time explaining how a Romney/Ryan administration would solve them:”
Mitt Romney is a firm believer in keeping secrets, which includes his policy plans. Romney has restricted voters to a ‘need to know’ access, meaning they don’t need to know until after they vote for him.
The CSMonitor reports that the Pentagon is denouncing “swift-boat” style attacks on President Obama from the group “Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund Inc.” They are critical of the president over what they call dangerous leaks about the bin Laden raid.
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, responded to the film, warning that using the uniform for partisan politics erodes the trust that people have in their military. “One of the things that marks us as a profession in a democracy is, it’s most important we remain apolitical,” he said Wednesday. “That’s how we maintain our trust with the American people. The American people don’t want us to become another special-interest group. In fact, I think that confuses them.”
[...] For special operators to take part in political campaigns is “in violation of everything we’ve been taught, and the opposite of what we should be doing, which is being quiet professionals,” Army Special Forces Maj. Fernando Luján told the Associated Press.
[...] President Obama has spoken out against the OPSEC group. “I don’t take these folks too seriously… One of their members is a birther who denies I was born here, despite evidence to the contrary.”
[...] The group criticizes the president in particular for what it says was a politically motivated push to take credit for the bin Laden raid.
Adm. William McRaven, head of Special Operations Command, which planned the raid, took on such criticisms in an interview last month with CNN, noting the great risks involved in the operation. “At the end of the day – make no mistake about it – it was the president of the United States that shouldered the burden for this operation, that made the hard decisions, that was instrumental in the planning process,” he said, “because I pitched every plan to him.”
If you’re wondering which anonymous billionaire is funding the non-profit swift-boaters at OPSEC, jamess at DailyKos has run down who’s affiliated with / running the group (all Republicans!), but not who’s giving them money — that bit of information doesn’t ever have to be disclosed:
The group claims to have raised almost $1 million between June and mid-August 2012.[4][2] Because it claims that its primary purpose is to further the common good, the group doesn’t have to disclose who is funding it to the public.[3]
A very dishonorable use of veterans by the Republican Party, and a dishonorable use of their own military careers by the veterans themselves.
justinspoliticalcorner: Tammy Duckworth, #IL08 Candidate for Congress, lost both her legs and damaged her right arm during the Iraq War via combat wounds.
Her Republican opponent resents that she talks about her military service to our country because he is a typical teaparty-sponsored chickenhawk.
On this Independence Day, let’s remember that the tea party will not be allowed to redefine what America and patriotic mean to the rest of us.
WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STANDS FOR TODAY—————————–—
Mitt Romney said Monday he wasn’t concerned about Donald Trump’s commitment to the “birther” conspiracy, one day before the GOP presidential candidate hosts a fund-raiser alongside the celebrity business magnate. Asked on his charter plane whether Trump’s questioning of President Barack Obama’s birthplace gave him pause, Romney simply said he was grateful for all his supporters. “You know, I don’t agree with all the people who support me and my guess is they don’t all agree with everything I believe in,” Romney said. “But I need to get 50.1% or more and I’m appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people.” — CNN
Political purity over representing your constituents: Top Conservatives Warn GOP Not To Waver On ‘Obamacare’ — “The Club for Growth supports complete repeal of Obamacare. And complete doesn’t mean partial. It means complete,” said Barney Keller, a spokesman for the group. “We urge the so-called ‘tea party’ Republicans to keep their promises to voters and continue to fight for complete repeal as well.” [...] Dean Clancy, who leads health care advocacy for FreedomWorks, said the group “would be very concerned about bills to resurrect parts of Obamacare.” He said Republicans should take no responsibility for the broken system that would result. “It would be the height of folly for Republicans to say, OK, this is our problem now,” he said. “It’s not the Republicans’ fault if 25-year-old slackers suddenly are dropped from mom and dad’s health insurance policy. It’s not the Republicans’ fault if various other provisions of Obamacare are no longer on the books. … The American people need to have a chance to reflect on the fact that the Democrats basically rammed an unconstitutional bill down their throat.” – TPMDC
Mormonism 101: Is Mitt Romney the ‘White Horse’ in Mormon prophecy? – That’s the one in the old Mormon prophecy attributed to Joseph Smith, which predicts that after the banks fail and when the Constitution is nearing collapse, Mormons flush with wealth — the White Horse, in the prophecy’s metaphor — will rise and lead America back to greatness. [...] “You will see the Constitution of the United States almost destroyed. It will hang like a thread as fine as a silk fiber,” the prophecy has Smith saying. But “it will be preserved and saved by the efforts of the White Horse,” who will “stand by the Constitution of the United States as it was given by the inspiration of God.” There will be a Black Horse — American blacks, as the text is commonly interpreted — that sides with England and France, but eventually they’ll all submit to the White Horse as the religion fulfills its world-conquering destiny in an Armageddon-style war with the Russians—while keeping an eye on the looming threat of China. – POLITICO
How Florida Gov. Rick Scott could steal the election for Mitt Romney – On Wednesday, November 7, Mitt Romney could wake up as the President-elect thanks to one man: Florida Governor Rick Scott. With little fanfare, Scott is undertaking an audacious plan to kick thousands of Floridians off the ballot just before this year’s elections. It’s a sloppy, chaotic and possibly illegal plan. But it just might work. [...] Will history repeat itself in Florida this year? By one estimate, 7000 Florida voters were wrongfully removed from the voter rolls for the 2000 presidential election — 13 times George W. Bush’s margin of victory in that state after the U.S. Supreme Court halted the post-election recount. – Think Progress
WHAT THE PRESIDENT / DEMOCRATS STAND FOR ————————————
Two Republican Nominees: John McCain stood up to the voices of extremism in his party and the Obama campaign asks why Romney won’t do the same. (Hint: because Romney is not in possession of a backbone?):
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Obama should seize the High Ground – Think about this: Is there anyone in America today who doesn’t either have a pre-existing medical condition or know someone who does and can’t get health insurance as a result? Yet two years after Obama’s health care bill became law, how many Americans understand that once it is fully implemented no American with a pre-existing condition will ever again be denied coverage? “Obamacare is socialized medicine,” says the Republican Party. No, no — excuse me — socialized medicine is what we have now! People without insurance can go to an emergency ward or throw themselves on the mercy of a doctor, and the cost of all this uncompensated care is shared by all those who have insurance, raising your rates and mine. That is socialized medicine and that is what Obamacare ends. Yet Obama — the champion of private insurance for all — has allowed himself to be painted as a health care socialist. – Tom Friedman
LOL – spoof of Mitt’s “Day One” ad (actual audio) – Text shown during audio describing Romney’s repeal of Obamacare and his plan to replace it with a ‘common sense’ health care reform: “If workers get sick, they die. That’s just common sense.” – DailyKos
“A parent should not have to pay a premium to supervise and protect their child on an airplane.” — From a statement Schumer sent the airline trade group, protesting additional fees for window and aisle seats. – AP | Daily Intel
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The best way to honor war veterans: Stop needlessly creating new ones.—
(@radleybalko) May 28, 2012
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True patriotism isn’t cheap. It’s about taking on a fair share of the burdens of keeping America going. Those who earn tens of millions of dollars a year but pay less than 14 percent of their incomes in taxes, and argue the rich should pay even less, are not true patriots. Those who defend indefensible tax loopholes, such as the “carried interest” loophole that allows private-equity managers to treat their incomes as capital gains even if they risk no income of their own, are not true patriots. Those who avoid taxes by putting huge amounts of their earnings into IRAs via foreign tax shelters are not true patriots. Those who want to cut programs that benefit the poor — Food stamps, child nutrition, Pell grants, Medicaid — so that they can get a tax cut for themselves and their affluent friends— are not true patriots. — Robert Reich
WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY STANDS FOR TODAY—————————–—
“I do not understand the cost-benefit here. The costs are clear. The benefits – what voter is going to vote for him because he’s seen with Donald Trump? The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low, and you can still intrude into American politics. But, again, I don’t understand the benefit. What is Romney seeking?” – George Will on Romney campaigning with “bloviating ignoramus” Donald Trump
ALAN SIMPSON SLAMS FELLOW REPUBLICANS for unwillingness to compromise — In his characteristically colorful style, Simpson told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that Republicans’ rigid opposition to new tax revenues has hampered productivity and diminished the chances of reaching an agreement with Democrats on debt reduction. “You can’t cut spending your way out of this hole,” Simpson, who was appointed as co-chair of President Obama’s Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform in 2010, said. “You can’t grow your way out of this hole, and you can’t tax your way out of this hole. So put that in your pipe and smoke it, we tell these people. This is madness.” Simpson continued: “If you want to be a purist, go somewhere on a mountaintop and praise the east or something. But if you want to be in politics, you learn to compromise. And you learn to compromise on the issue without compromising yourself. Show me a guy who won’t compromise and I’ll show you a guy with rock for brains.” – HuffPo
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HOW HARD WILL GINGRICH FLIP-FLOP for help to pay off his campaign debt? Newt Gingrich on Sunday defended Mitt Romney from attacks made on his record at Bain Capital. “Bain as an issue doesn’t work because people look at it in balance,” he said on ‘Meet The Press’. “And they say, wait a second, yeah, you can pick a couple companies that lost. You can pick a lot of companies that succeeded. And as even as the governor of Massachusetts said last week, it is a good company.” The former presidential candidate’s defense of Romney’s business record may surprise those who followed his campaign. At one point, Gingrich made Romney’s Bain record a central issue and referred to private equity as “rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company.” — HuffPo
WHO ELSE IS FILLED WITH FLIP-FLOP? Sen. John McCain – Former Republican presidential nominee John McCain on Sunday walked back on his 2008 attacks on current GOP hopeful Mitt Romney for his record of killing jobs as the head of Bain Capital. During a 2008 campaign stop in Florida, McCain had blasted Romney for taking over companies and laying off “thousands of workers.” “I think he managed companies and he bought and he sold and sometimes people lost their jobs,” the Arizona senator explained at a January 2008 debate. [...] “This is the free enterprise system,” McCain insisted. “The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the old Soviet Union. This is what investors do in the free enterprise and capitalism system.” “And, yes, the free enterprise system can be cruel,” he added. – Raw Story
ONE WOULD THINK an explicit conspiracy by a sitting governor to remove lawful voters from the rolls in a rather obvious fashion would be a “scandal.” But that’s not how things work. — Duncan Black
IT’S INTERESTING that the Gospels don’t go into any real detail about Jesus’ butler. — Guardian
WHAT THE PRESIDENT / DEMOCRATS STAND FOR ————————————
WHY THE PRESIDENT IS RIGHT to talk about Bain — It seems to me that Obama’s immediate point is wrong: Romney wasn’t primarily about job destruction and corporate plundering. His larger point–that Romney was not so much about job-creation as he was about profit-creation–is correct, though. But the largest point of all is this: private equity capitalism was all about short-term profits–maximizing shareholder value–rather than long-term growth. It ushered in an era of massive executive compensation and bonuses. It prospered because of tax rules that made debt more profitable than equity, and a “carried interest” tax dodge that enabled Mitt Romney to pay a lower percentage in taxes than your average construction worker. It can be a useful tool in restructuring companies and steering them toward profitability, but it is not the sort of model you’d want to apply to the entire American economy. A President has to be about long-term growth, not short-term profits–and to the extent that Barack Obama is using the Bain ads to make this larger argument, he is not “stumbling” or attacking “free enterprise,” but he is steering the conversation toward the most important topic this year: what sort of economy do we want to have and how do we get there? — Joe Klein
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS BACK Obama’s Bain strategy vs. Romney – After nearly two weeks of heated debate over whether President Obama should attack Republican Mitt Romney’s tenure at a private-equity firm, Democratic leaders across the country say they are largely united behind the strategy, even as some concede an uncertain outcome and new polls show Obama has lost ground nationally. [...] “He wanted to have this conversation,” Jim Burn, chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, said of Romney, the likely GOP nominee. “We’re going to have it. There should be no hesitation or equivocation.” – Washington Post
OBAMA HAS A PRETTY AMBITIOUS stimulus plan. Now the plan won’t pass because Republicans would never vote for it, and everybody including Obama knows this, so we’ve all treated it as a message device because that’s the only function it serves. But I’m confident Obama really would like to sign his stimulus plan if he could. Meanwhile, Romney has no stimulus plan. But he may well propose one if he wins, and it would pass, because plenty of Republicans would flip back to being Keynesians like they were under President Bush. What’s more, Democrats wouldn’t stop it, because Democrats don’t have any history of opportunistically abandoning Keynesian economics when the other party’s neck is on the economic line. So, yes, a President Romney would be more likely to sign strong stimulative legislation than Obama — not because he believes in it more strongly, but because, as David Frum says, we’re all Keynesians during Republican administrations. — Jonathan Chait
“WE ARE IN A DEPRESSION. We are actually in a classic depression. A depression is when nobody wants to spend. Everybody wants to pay down their debt at the same time. Everybody is trying to pull back, either because they got too far into debt, or because if they’re a corporation, they can’t sell because consumers are pulling back. The thing about an economy is that it fits together. My spending is your income. Your spending is my income, so if we all pull back at the same time, we’re in a depression. The way to get out of it is for somebody to spend so that people can pay down their debt, so that we don’t have a depression, so that we have a chance to work out of whatever excesses we had in the past — and that somebody has to be the government….” – Paul Krugman | Video via: Politicususa
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VETERANS ARE STILL STRUGGLING to find employment – While the unemployment rate for veterans has dropped dramatically in the last year… finding jobs for veterans remains a major issue. Paul Rieckhoff, founder and executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, said there has been “huge progress” on helping unemployed veterans because President Obama has instituted policies to reduce veteran unemployment and Fortune 500 companies are also helping returning servicemembers. [...] Obama’s initiatives are helping to improve the jobs outlook for veterans. That’s more than can be said for Mitt Romney, who has no specific plans to address veterans issues, including unemployment. – Think Progress
ALLEN WEST WANTS TO KEEP the good parts of Obamacare – In an interview with ThinkProgress, West pointed to three popular provisions of the health care law that he would like to see preserved: [...] WEST: Well you’ve got to replace it. You’ve got to replace it with something. If people want to keep their kid on their insurance at 26, fine. We’ve got to make sure no American gets turned back for pre-existing conditions, that’s fine. Keep the donut hole closed, that’s fine. But what I just talked to you about, maybe 20, 25 pages of legislation. The problem with West’s reasoning is that the pre-existing condition ban can’t function without an individual mandate or some other mechanism for bringing healthy people into the health care system. Without the individual responsibility provision, a death spiral begins whereby only sick people buy insurance and it soon becomes unaffordable for everybody. — Think Progress
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Source: sandandglass
MITT THE PROBLEM SOLVER! ROMNEY TELLS STUDENTS to just borrow money from their parents. Mitt Romney is the most tone-deaf motherfucker to ever run for president. HANDS DOWN. This afternoon at an event in Ohio—which students apparently were forced to attend, if the gentleman falling asleep in the front row is any indication—Mitt Romney yammered on about class warfare, and how President Obama is always attacking success, and why don’t kids today have the bootstrapitude it takes to up and start a multimillion dollar sandwich chain like Romney’s good friend Jimmy John did by borrowing $20K from the parental units. – ABL: Balloon Juice | read more: ABL: Raw Story
YESTERDAY RUSH LIMBAUGH said Hillary Clinton is just a secretary who needs to wear Spanx. [He] said that Clinton “has reached a pinnacle and all she is is a secretary,” adding that the left has “the strangest definition of success.” Limbaugh then said he was being prodded to talk about Clinton’s need to wear “Spanx,” but suggested she had a greater need for “Spankles.” – Rush Limbaugh On Hillary Clinton: ‘All She Is Is A Secretary’ Who Needs To Wear Spanx || Your “Imaginary” GOP War on Women, people!
Because feminists are dykes. GET IT? — Fox News Douchebag Of The Day
BUZZFEED POLITICS IS TRYING SO HARD to campaign for Romney:
MEDIA DARLING SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ) is blasting Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for spending too much time in front of the television cameras. [...] “I have never seen Sen. Schumer address any issue unless it was political in the United States Senate,” McCain told Van Susteren. “Bob Dole once said, the most dangerous place to be in Washington D.C. is between Sen. Schumer and a television camera.” “That holds true today,” he added. But very few, if any, senators in recent years have been given more airtime than McCain himself. [...] Between his loss in the November 2008 presidential election and January 2010, McCain had appeared on Sunday morning talk shows at least 19 times. By March 2012, he had broken former Sen. Bob Dole’s (R-KS) record by appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press 64 times. – Crooks & Liars
PRESIDENT OBAMA / DEMOCRATS————————————————————
PRESIDENT OBAMA ON FRIDAY SIGNED an executive order that will help protect veterans from the deceptive practices of some for-profit colleges that seek to take advantage of them. The news was greeted with praise from veterans groups, who have “long felt that student veterans need to have the tools to succeed when it comes to their education.” The American Legion called it “an important victory on behalf of our young servicemembers and veterans who, in seeking to better themselves educationally, have been wrongly and unconscionably victimized by some institutions who see America’s finest as nothing more than a vulnerable market.” — MMFA
NEW WEB VIDEO FROM OBAMA CAMPAIGN — ROMNEY’S PRIORITIES: Mitt wouldn’t have killed Osama bin Laden (but remember, he would have let GM go bankrupt) — A new web video from the Obama campaign, featuring former President Bill Clinton, suggests Mitt Romney wouldn’t have made the decision to go after Osama bin Laden almost one year ago today — TPM
BUT REMEMBER THE 2008 CAMPAIGN AND JOHN MCCAIN’S ‘SUPER SECRET PLAN’ to capture bin Laden? John McCain says in almost every stump speech that he knows how to capture Osama bin Laden and that he’d follow the al Qaeda leader to the “Gates of Hell.” So Washington Wire was wondering, what does McCain know that President Bush and the Pentagon don’t about how to sweep up America’s most elusive enemy. If there are “certain policies and procedures” that could lead to OBL’s detention, and a president could implement those policies and procedures now, why wouldn’t McCain stop by the Oval Office for a chat with Bush about how best to proceed? By McCain’s own reasoning, it sounds like he’d rather let bin Laden remain free for another year, until McCain and his “own ideas” can get to work. – McCain’s ‘secret plan’ to get bin LadenFACT: In 2011, California spent $9.6 billion on prisons, but just $5.7 billion on higher education.
California has built just one college campus since 1980, but it’s created 21 prisons.
Source: CNN | via: Think Progress
FACT: More U.S. soldiers killed themselves than died in combat in 2010.
via: columnfive
“For every soldier killed on the battlefield this year, about 25 veterans are dying by their own hands. An American soldier dies every day and a half, on average, in Iraq or Afghanistan. Veterans kill themselves at a rate of one every 80 minutes.” – Nicholas Kristof
Why not more treatment centers (for non-violent drug offenders) and access to higher education for more young people (so they don’t feel they have to join the military to go to college)?
If we had a nationwide, mandated military draft — where even if you wanted to be a Mormon missionary in France, you’d still have to serve first — would the GOP, and especially its wealthy owners, be less likely to want perpetual war?
Wouldn’t we be a stronger, happier country with such changes?
Care to guess what she wrote? (click for larger pic):
via @Symbolman & @DavidCornDC
Look at our liberal, lamestream media surrounding her… what veterans? This perfectly illustrates the journalistic standards of America in 2011.
See: To honor Memorial Day, Sarah Palin is crashing a veteran’s event with her politics
Dressed in all black, with a leather jacket and dark shades, the former governor of Alaska arrived at the Rolling Thunder bike rally mounted on the backseat of a chopper driven by a fellow biker chick.
“I love this smell!” the former governor of Alaska hollered, as she relished the moment. “I love the smell of these emissions!”
Memorial Day is not only a time to remember veterans, but also to honor the 150,000 Americans in harm’s way on three fronts. NBC’s Richard Engel reports. (Nightly News)
inothernews: A member of a military Honor Guard stands at parade rest during a Memorial Day remembrance at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on the Boston Common in Boston. (Photo: AP via the New York Post)
Army Spc. Justin Immerso places flags in front of head stones at Arlington National Cemetery in preparation for Memorial Day, in Arlington, Va. Photo Credit: Jacquelyn Martin/AP via the Globe and Mail
“Maybe the best way to honor the fallen…would be to find more ways not to send others to join them.” (via John Cole Cartoons » In remembrance)
