[GCFL-discuss] Veteran

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

And how many times has Obama voted on Veteran critical issues?? Less than
10%?
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.
~Lance

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List <
gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> wrote:

> Today is Labor Day. At least, when I write this it still is. When you
> read this, Labor Day will probably be over. I drove a bus in the Labor
> Day parade with my union, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 998. At the
> last minute a disable veteran struggled over and asked if he could ride
> with me. He is also a retiree from the International Association of
> Machinists. His war was no earlier than Vietnam. Of course, I drive a
> paratransit bus, so picking up disabled people is what I do 40 + hours a
> week, but I would have taken him anyway.
>
> He told me he had been working a table supporting Barack Obama at an
> annual fair in a semi-suburbanized rural town called St. Martin's. A
> number of men had told him he should be supporting John McCain, because
> "Veterans should support veterans." He said he showed them the Disabled
> American Veterans voting scorecard on issues of concern to veterans, and
> McCain had about a 10%. They were not only shocked, but convinced that
> the whole thing was lies and propaganda. They returned to the theme
> "veterans should support veterans." None of them were veterans. I'm not
> either, but the man telling me this is. One of the hecklers said "I'm the
> son of the mayor of New Berlin," like that made him an authority on who
> veterans should vote for. He said "When John McCain supports veterans,
> that's when he'll get my vote."
>
> Siarlys
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