It doesn't take an Einstein to recognize a stupid and degrading tweet. This administration loves the military for photo-ops, not much else.
There........Fixed it.
This same guy was trotted out years ago on Obermann’s show.
It is a political activist appointment.
He was doing as directed.
He didn’t even need to be told what to do. Charles Manson didn’t tell his followers how to kill those people either.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3163900/posts?page=125#125
COUNTDOWN for June 11, 2008
MSNBC - Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Show: COUNTDOWN
Author: Keith Olbermann ; Richard Wolffe ; Eugene Robinson
OLBERMANN: We are joined now by Brandon Friedman, vice chairman of VoteVets.org. He himself served in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Thank you again for your time tonight, sir.
BRANDON FRIEDMAN, VOTEVETS.ORG: Thanks for having me on, Keith. Glad to be here.
OLBERMANN: How do veterans, how do veterans’ families feel when they hear that the man who wants to be the next commander-in-chief does not think it’s too important when they come home?
FRIEDMAN: Keith, this is a morale crusher. You know, if you can imagine, say a sergeant, who’s on his third tour and he’s in the 14th month of that tour and he hears the potential President saying something like this, it kills morale. You know, the troops are over there and, you know, I’ve been there, I’ve had to deal with this. But the troops over there hang on every word they hear from a leader, you know, especially the commander-in-chief, but also someone who could be the commander-in-chief. And when they hear something like this, you know, it really kills them on the inside because, you know, their families want them home. They want to come home, you know, or focus on the real global war on terror elsewhere. But this is really a killer when you hear something like this.
OLBERMANN: What I hear when I hear from servicemen or I talk to vets, more than anything else, is their astonishment when generals or veterans like McCain or the brass, just to use the general term there, don’t get it. That of all people, these are the ones they naively thought would understand risk and sacrifice. Does it, does it matter more that they are abandoned by a John McCain who did serve as opposed to a George Bush who did not?
FRIEDMAN: Absolutely, Keith. You know, we’ve come to not expect a whole lot from George W. Bush. But when you have a veteran like John McCain who has gone through so much in Vietnam, you really expect a lot more out of him because the way you see it as a soldier or a Marine or an airman or whatever, is that John McCain should know better, you know. He’s been in our shoes. He’s had it worst than most of us, you know. He should know better. And, you know, for those of us who’ve been there and who’ve lived through this, we just would expect a lot more, and it really saddens us, you know, to see this happen because there are thousands and thousands of veterans who’d just disagree with him on this...