VFW’s Response to Blumenthal’s Press Conference

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VFW’s Response to Blumenthal’s Press Conference

KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 18, 2010 - Mr. Blumenthal is not a member of the VFW and VFW National By-Laws do not allow any level of the organization to endorse political candidates.

VFW national did not sanction and was not, in fact, aware that the press conference was going to be held at a VFW Post. This decision was made at the Post level and the VFW Department of Connecticut issued the following:

The following statement is by Richard DiFederico, Department Commander Connecticut VFW:

“Those who served in Vietnam or offshore or in neighboring countries rightfully earned all the belated thanks and appreciation our nation can muster. Those who served in uniform during the Vietnam era also deserve our gratitude, which makes Mr. Blumenthal's claim to be something he is not so outrageous. It diminishes the service of all who served and sacrificed, most especially those whose names are inscribed on the Vietnam Wall. Mr. Blumenthal was considered one of the best friends a veteran could have in Connecticut. It is a true shame that he let a false claim of Vietnam service change that.”

VFW National Commander Thomas J. Tradewell Sr., endorses this statement. In sum, the fact that this event was held at a VFW location cannot, in any manner, be construed as a formal endorsement of the candidate.

[GailA]

DUMB move by a usually very smart man.

[CRBDeuce]

So which FORIEGN WAR was he a veteran of???

As a known Alinskyite/Trotskyite/Leninite/Stalinist from way back, he's been fighting Obama's 'foreign' (Blame America First) war for decades.

[CRBDeuce]

Some of the ‘best’ bar veteran stories include the words ‘cambodia’ and ‘vietnam’....must be in the bar veterans’ playbook. They all know who they are, and it seems ‘accepted’, by liberals anyway, if they’re the one buying the drinks!...Dumbass Cavuto even apologized for the scumbag...a waste of airtime. To the rest of us, they’re all a waste of good oxygen.

[potlatch]

[Some of the ‘best’ bar veteran stories include the words ‘cambodia’]

I can well imagine that CRBDeuce.
Kerry is a waste of good oxygen!

[potlatch]

Thanks so much nit. I’m late getting to my pings.

[patton]

Try getting adopted, then getting the FAA to change the name on your pilot’s license (15 yrs).

Or getting the Masons to move your membership from Germany to the US (22 yrs).

[Seadog Bytes]

...EXACTLY!

Great art, Potlatch! ...It certainly DOES get the MESSAGE across!!!

[potlatch]

Thanks so much Seadog. I hoped some would get a kick out of it. I'm laughing at the one you posted and remembering the years we made so many Kerry graphics.

Remember the one of him sitting on a couch, making a model airplane I believe, and there was a window behind him?
LOL, we had great fun putting things looking in that window!

[Seadog Bytes]

LOL - Was in a hurry to get that one posted, and almost forgot to add his ‘scarlet letter’...possibly the only award he actually ever ‘earned’?

[potlatch]

[almost forgot to add his ‘scarlet letter’]

Lol, too bad he has so much hair or you could put it on his forehead - like they did to adulterous women of olden times!