Ted Kennedy doesn't know the difference either...
"Well I think that we should ask Osama Bin Laden, er, I mean Osama Obama, er, I mean, Obama, but seriously......"
Posted on 02/15/2005 10:46:39 AM PST by GianniV
The Veterans Affairs Department needs at least $4 billion more than President Bush has allotted or else veterans' health care and disability claims will suffer, Sen. Barack Obama warned Monday.
Obama (D-Ill.) criticized the president during a press conference in Chicago, calling him "bull-headed" and warning that Bush's proposed 2.7 percent increase for the VA doesn't consider an increased demand from returning Iraqi veterans.
"When you adjust for inflation, the president's budget has even less money for veterans than it had a year ago," said Obama, who serves on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. "We have a tendency to applaud our Armed Forces when they are overseas and in uniform and have a tendency to forget about them when they come home."
Bush's proposed VA budget of $71.3 billion raises VA medical care spending by $800 million but doubles prescription drug co-payments and calls for some veterans to pay a $250 annual fee for service. It also eliminates some state grants for veterans in nursing homes.
Obama also says it's time for the VA's inspector general to conclude a national investigation into disparities in disability pay that have shortchanged Illinois veterans.
"Recent reports by the Chicago Sun-Times have clearly shown the Illinois disability compensation system is broken," Obama said.
Pay probe
The VA inspector general's office launched its investigation in mid-December after a Sun-Times series revealed that Illinois' wounded veterans receive as much as $5,000 less than veterans in other states and Puerto Rico and that the pay disparity has gone on for seven decades.
The inspector general's office has not commented on its progress since it began the probe and has not returned phone calls to the newspaper in six weeks.
"VA Secretary [Jim] Nicholson said it was going to take a while to get it done. I don't want 'a while' stretching into six to nine months," Obama said. "My assumption is that it should take somewhere between six to eight weeks. My estimation is that we should have some answers soon."
Obama predicted that if Bush's budget for the VA remains unchanged, it will mean veterans will have to wait longer to have a disability claim decided. Currently nearly half a million veterans' compensation and pension claims are still waiting a decision, he said.
Obama is a flaming liberal who hates the military. Don't let he political jargon stray your mind away from reality. It won't matter how much any republican spends on domestic issues, to a liberal it will never be enough.
Obamababy is from Illinois...now who else is from the
Cemetary Voters State??...Jesse- Whatsisname? can you
erxpect anything else?? Forget it ... Obama has the
gift of gab..but he should be watching and listening
for a few months...The only Democrat I ever voted for..
volunteered that he did that as a Senator...His name:
Harry S. Truman. The last Democrat with guts and common sense. Jake
"Well I think that we should ask Osama Bin Laden, er, I mean Osama Obama, er, I mean, Obama, but seriously......"
I'm aware he is a newly minted Junior Senator of about a month.
My point is that the President has a good track of standing behind our military and veterans. Obama feels he has the right to say otherwise. I'd like Obama to provide justification for his claim the President is "bull-headed" when it comes to their needs. Lacking legislation to point to, what has he done in his community from grade school till now absent campaign to help? My guess is very little if anything at all.
The point is to drag HIS own record as a rebuttal to the President's record to highlight the absurdity of the attack.
Veterans spending under Bush is up 49% than under Clinton. That data came from Ike Skelton, senior Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.
I think he's on as many committees as he can get on, to get enough experience for the big day when ole broadbeam announces him as her VP. My thoughts. Everytime I DO see a committee meeting he's on it. Now he pretends he knows something about veterans and their needs.
Darnright, I agree, he is a freshman senator, but he is a full blowm democrat politician. He, like the rest of the left wing of our government, thinks HE knows what is good and right for us.
Obama, mama, bobama
Banana, fanna, fofomma,
me my momomma, Osamabama !
Regarding post # 23.
For the sake of the women and children, if I looked like that I would never take my shirt off.
Dunno about the exact percentage, but according to the horse's mouth the actual outlays (spending) by the VA Dept. are as follows:
2001: $45 billion
2005: $67 billion
For 2006, Bush wants over $71 billion. And so Barack says OH MY GOD IT'S A CUT! Yeah, Barack, Bush has cut the VA really badly. *snerk* What gets me is that "after accounting for inflation," $71 billion is still an increase over $67 billion. I suppose Obama is just cherry-picking one line-item and claiming ITS increase was less than 2 to 3 percent (i.e., the amount of inflation)?
Not a promising start for Obama, but it's what I expected: half-truths and unprincipled demogoguery.
MEGA BARF ALERT. The same day as Obama's commonplaces are given "start" treatment by the Chicago Sun Times, the tv station owned by the number one Chicago newspaper, the Libune, is going to run a special "news" program by a black anchorbabe, "Obama's Origins", which (to quote the ad in, surprise,, surprise, the Libune, which willpublish her "travel journal") "uncovers the rich heritage of Barack Obama when she travels to Africa to trace the roots of Illinois' rising political star". Just when you can't think the MSM can possibly get more lapdog liberal....
What has Barack and his family done to solve all the issues with Africa and the thug dictators there, who are starving their own people?
And who cares where this guy came from.
Osama Obama is my new favorite Beatle. He's the dreamiest!
I think another angle this jerk Obama is playing is that veterans are a bunch of deranged, hopeless idiots who can't carry on their lives without the government / VA. And who sends these innocent boys to war? War-mongering Republicans, of course!
Most vets I know got on with their lives. They are not living under a bridge and for God's sake, don't want Barack Obama speaking for them.
"He's going to be her choice. Mark my words. "
My wife thinks so too. To be contrary I see him as too high-profile for her. But then, I've been wrong about her before.
Thanks for pointing out how Bush is taking care of vets.
I saw some Veteran Against the War activist dude on FOX last night howling about how we're not taking care of the troops and how it's taking "four whole months" to get amputees their prosthesis. This guy was living in a different world than the one I know. We're taking good care of our guys and gals who've been wounded.
Subject: OPENING OF THE MILITARY SEVERELY INJURED JOINT SUPPORT OPERATIONS
CENTER
The brand new Military Severely Injured Joint Support Operations Center is
now opened. I attended the grand-opening yesterday on behalf of MCPON.
This
Center is a 24/7 operation to support our Armed Forces Service Members and
their families who have suffered severe injuries in combat operations.
This new
Center was designed to provide "personalized assistance, tailored to meet
an individual's unique needs during recovery and rehabilitation, to
include:
- Medical care and rehabilitation
- Education, training and job placement
- Personal mobility and functioning
- Home, transportation and workplace accommodations
- Personal, couple and family issues counseling
- Financial resources
It is intended as an augmentation of other Military Service and government
programs..."
The Center is located at 2107 Wilson Blvd., Colonial Place Three, Suite
100, Rosslyn, VA 22201. It's available at no cost to severely injured
Service members and their families and can be reached at 1-888-774-1361.
Please pass this info. r/
CNOCM(SW) Jimmy Paulk
Chief of Naval Operations
Command Master Chief
Pentagon Rm. 5A514A
Washington, DC 20350-2000
(703) 614-2927
DSN: 224-2927
"Leadership is not a one day thing.
It is a constant commitment to
excellence, a habit, a daily practice."
zzzzzzzzzzz...
Bobby Jindal is ten times the man Obama bin bama is.
You can tell by the way the MSM ignores him.
Come to think of it, did anyone ever see them in the same room together?
Doesn't matter to the democrats. He's a 100% twofaced to me.
He's a credit to his race(s).
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