Any military person who supports John McCain should hang their heads in shame

[LynneSin]

Denying our soldiers the opportunity to attend school AND providing incentives for new enlistments. This is what the GI Bill provides our soldiers - men & women who have done an amazing job for our country and sacrificed so much to serve in this travesty of a war.

And I read some of the GI Bill - we're not promising Harvard or Yale or some $40k/year education but an education in a public university is still a great stepping stone to ensure that these folks can get their lives started again and provide a good income for their families.

But Bush and McCain would rather keep our troops in poverty. We barely provide them the health care we need and now we're denying the education they've earned.

I don't care who flames me - anyone who supports McCain and served in the military should be ashamed of themselves. Yes, I know McCain served but has it been so long ago that he forgets what our soldiers are doing in time of war? Has he forgotten the sacrifices so many have given - whether it's time away from family, their health, their limbs or their lives. Perhaps, thanks to his 'sugardaddy' wife, he's found no need to panic over such things that have affected our soldiers for generations since thanks to Cindy Hensley McCain, a woman who's family is worth multi-millions, he's been living the life of luxury.

John McCain should be the #1 advocate for the Military and yet he's nothing more than a personal cheerleader of the Bush Regime's cruel actions against our military.

[AtomicKitten]

1. Obama has this exactly right and I look forward to him debating McCain.

K&R

[NJmaverick]

2. McCain thinks all vets should get ahead by marrying a sugar momma

like he did

[DevonRex]

3. Amen. As a veteran, I am SO opposed to McCain. I finished

college on veteran's benefits. So did my husband. That's the ONLY way many of them have to go to college at all.

[LynneSin]

4. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania - so many of them did Military in order to go to college.

And that study that Bush cites about how the re-enlistment counts would drop was true but what Bush failed to mention was that it would be offset by an increase in fresh recruits who in this economy might be more willing to do the military if college was guarenteed

[Hugabear]

5. Is McInsane trying to cut GI Bill benefits?

Got a link? I know some people that I would absolutely LOVE to send that to.

[LynneSin]

6. No, he's just denying benefits from a bill that has strong bipartisan support

He claims he has an alternative that would somehow force people to re-enlist so they don't lose soldiers.

The grip isn't the money but the fact that they (Bush & McCain) believe that the re-enlistment rate would go down even further (which shocks me since so many of these soldiers are being stop-lossed anyways).

But what Bush and McCain fail to mention is that this bill will also help boost enlistment.

[Hugabear]

7. What a fucking shock

I can just hear the pitch now. Want all those great benefits? All you have to is just re-enlist, soldier!

[Zachstar]

8. One of the reasons we had an apollo program was because of the GI bill.

Many soldiers coming home and others were going to college in great amounts and learning the skills in engineering badly needed for the implementation of Von Buran's dream.

For McIdiot to say such bullshit about our soldiers shows he is unfit for office of president and I hope the voters respond.

[LynneSin]

9. I think this has to be a big campaign issue

Clearly now that the Republicans have a candidate with a pretty respectable military career they're going to hound Obama's lack of military service (unlike Bush who had a spotty record running against Vietnam vets Gore and Kerry - then we mock those who served).

I don't think serving in the military is a needed to be president but I do think a healthy respect for the military and respecting the fact that our soldiers sacrifice more of themselves in one day of serving this war then any of us non-soldiers will in a lifetime.

I've read where McCain was never a wealthy person but instead has been pretty much a product of living off of his wife's family fortunes. He found himself a 'sugarmamma' so he's not had to struggle with what so many of our soldiers still deal with everyday including those who served in Vietnam like McCain.

Before I moved, everytime I got off the freeway there would be a Vietnam vet sitting there on his wheelchair, legs amputated, asking for donations. Usually after payday I'd give him a few dollars. THink of how different that guy's life would have been if he had a Cindy Hensley McCain for his wife.