Posts Tagged as ‘GI Bill’

May 22, 2008

Personal Attacks

Barack Obama goes after John McCain on the GI Bill of Rights:
I respect sen. John McCain’s service to our country. He is one of those heroes of which I speak. But I can’t understand why he would line up behind the President in his opposition to this GI bill.
I can’t believe why he believes it [...]

May 21, 2008

Jim Webb Has John McCain Over a Barrell

This is a pretty damn effective ad against John McCain, in my view. It exposes a real weakness of McCain’s. As Hilzoy notes:
Short version: during the last four years (all I checked), McCain has supported basic appropriations for vets. However, when there are two competing proposals, he generally chooses the cheaper [...]

May 2, 2008

Support the Troops?

The GOP loves to hammer Democrats over their refusals to “support the troops,” and everyone “knows” that Republicans love our troops and work hard to ensure that they are treated well when they return from Iraq and Afghanistan. Never mind Walter Reed, Fort Bragg, stop loss policies and the myriad other disgraces that have occurred [...]