<div dir="ltr">And how many times has Obama voted on Veteran critical issues?? Less than 10%?<br>Just because McCain voted 10% doesn't mean anything until we have a comparison to what Obama has done. If someone were to say Obama voted with Veterans 50% of the time then I know McCain votes only 1 fifth of the time that Obama does and have a comparison. But to tell me no other statistics with that tells me nothing.<br>
~Lance<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Today is Labor Day. At least, when I write this it still is. When you<br>
read this, Labor Day will probably be over. I drove a bus in the Labor<br>
Day parade with my union, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 998. At the<br>
last minute a disable veteran struggled over and asked if he could ride<br>
with me. He is also a retiree from the International Association of<br>
Machinists. His war was no earlier than Vietnam. Of course, I drive a<br>
paratransit bus, so picking up disabled people is what I do 40 + hours a<br>
week, but I would have taken him anyway.<br>
<br>
He told me he had been working a table supporting Barack Obama at an<br>
annual fair in a semi-suburbanized rural town called St. Martin's. A<br>
number of men had told him he should be supporting John McCain, because<br>
"Veterans should support veterans." He said he showed them the Disabled<br>
American Veterans voting scorecard on issues of concern to veterans, and<br>
McCain had about a 10%. They were not only shocked, but convinced that<br>
the whole thing was lies and propaganda. They returned to the theme<br>
"veterans should support veterans." None of them were veterans. I'm not<br>
either, but the man telling me this is. One of the hecklers said "I'm the<br>
son of the mayor of New Berlin," like that made him an authority on who<br>
veterans should vote for. He said "When John McCain supports veterans,<br>
that's when he'll get my vote."<br>
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Siarlys</blockquote></div>
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