As a combat veteran of two tours in Vietnam with twenty-two years of service as a Republican member of the U.S. House and Senate, I endorse President Barack Obama for a second term as our Commander-in-Chief. Candidates publicly praise our service members, veterans and their families, but President Obama supports them in word and deed, anywhere and every time.
Larry Pressler: “Republican Senator, Vietnam Veteran Endorses President Obama”
The modern Republican party in one sentence.
Sixty-six years ago, in the dense, snow-covered forests of Western Europe, Allied Forces were beating back a massive assault in what would become known as the Battle of the Bulge. And in the final days of fighting, a regiment in the 80th Division of Patton’s Third Army came under fire. The men were traveling along a narrow trail. They were exposed and they were vulnerable. Hundreds of soldiers were cut down by the enemy.
President Obama, signing the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The repeal went into effect a year ago today.
And during the firefight, a private named Lloyd Corwin tumbled 40 feet down the deep side of a ravine. And dazed and trapped, he was as good as dead. But one soldier, a friend, turned back. And with shells landing around him, amid smoke and chaos and the screams of wounded men, this soldier, this friend, scaled down the icy slope, risking his own life to bring Private Corwin to safer ground.
For the rest of his years, Lloyd credited this soldier, this friend, named Andy Lee, with saving his life, knowing he would never have made it out alone. It was a full four decades after the war, when the two friends reunited in their golden years, that Lloyd learned that the man who saved his life, his friend Andy, was gay. He had no idea. And he didn’t much care. Lloyd knew what mattered. He knew what had kept him alive; what made it possible for him to come home and start a family and live the rest of his life. It was his friend.
And Lloyd’s son is with us today. And he knew that valor and sacrifice are no more limited by sexual orientation than they are by race or by gender or by religion or by creed; that what made it possible for him to survive the battlefields of Europe is the reason that we are here today. That’s the reason we are here today.
Out of many, we are one.
Eager to shoot down President Obama’s legislative agenda just weeks before the election, Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a measure that would have provided $1 billion over five years to help veterans find work in their communities.
Today’s New York Times: “Veterans’ Jobs Bill Blocked in the Senate”
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Comment of the day.
I don’t know, you are only the first President to acknowledge that my friends should be allowed to get married. You made it possible for them to serve the country. You made sure that I’ll have health insurance when I graduate from college. I’m not buried in debt. My health insurance company has to tell me how much of my premium goes to patient care. You added 4.6 billion dollars to the Veteran’s Administration so that this country’s defenders can receive mental health care. You eliminated subsidies to private lender middlemen of student loans and protect student borrowers. You established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. You signed financial reform allowing shareholders of publicly traded companies to vote on executive pay.
Surely that’s worth a 20?
You’ve had my back, now I’ve got yours.
Comment of the day, part the second.
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Meet Mike. He’s 59 years old, he’s a Vietnam veteran, and he’s got some opinions about Republicans in Congress.
