bottom line saxby chambliss and his ilk need to understand that you cant get six deferments out of vietnam and then question the patriotism of an american hero and get away with it. lets not let this one go. saxby chambliss said max cleland a vietnam vet and triple amputee didnt have the courage to lead
the same saxby chambliss is now engaged i...... [Show More]
senator saxby chambliss the chickenhawk senator from georgia is defending his deplorable attacks on disabled veteran max cleland
the ad in question shows max cleland a former army officer who came home from vietnam as a triple amputee next to pictures of saddam hussein and osama bin laden and alleges that cleland lacked the courage to lead. thats right. saxby chamblis...... [Show More]
please take a moment to sign this petition to help vote vets encourage president elect barack obama to find a role in his administration for veterans tammy duckworth and max cleland.
here is the petition in full
we the undersigned are voicing our support for presidentelect obama to bring former senator max cleland and tammy duckworth into the new administration.
max cleland ser..... [Show More]
first let me say that the case for electing jim martin to the u.s. senate from my birth state of georgia is strong and positive. he has lived in georgia his entire life except for his tour of duty in vietnam so he knows the people of and issues important to georgia. from his days as a young legal aid attorney to his 18 years in the state legislature to his service to the state as...... [Show More]
according to sam stein of the huffington post democraticleaning veterans groups are organizing a grassroots effort including an online petition drive to promote iraq veteran former congressional candidate and current head of the illinois department of veterans affairs tammy duckworth for secretary of veterans affairs in the new obama administration.
influential groups such as votevets...... [Show More]
happy veterans day Post Source: www.vetvoice.com Posted: Nov 11 2008 16:20:45
i woke up this morning to a flag waving in my front yard. it was placed there by the local boy scout troop in my neighborhood. as i got to work this morning and passed through security both of our security guards who are veterans themselves greeted me with good morning veteran. as i passed by our facilities engineer who served in the navy i repeated the same greetin...... [Show More]
failed presidential candidate john mccain raz is getting right back into the only thing he knows how to do successfully running for senate. only this time it isnt in his home state of arizona. no john mccain is back out on the stump for saxby chambliss rga.
chambliss name might sound familiar to you. he is the scum of the earth that ran this ad six y...... [Show More]
okay so we did pretty well with our endorsed veteran candidates. for new seats the following candidates won
john boccieri oh16
gary peters mi9
eric massa ny29
walt minnick id1
and yet to be decided are still two other races
jim martin gasen
charlie brown ca4
ill have an update on charliersqu...... [Show More]
all the chatter surrounding returns can go here. ill try to post updates on how all of our candidates have fared as soon as i can. it may not happen until tomorrow though since im probably not going to have wireless access tonight.
2125 hours update from rockrichard
here are some screenshots i pulled from my cnn race tracker. we are looking go...... [Show More]
rep. marilyn musgrave at the final cd 4 debate in windsor. photojason kosena after failing to outraise her democratic opponent throughout most of the last six months republican rep. marilyn musgrave s fundraising hit overdrive in the final week of the election.
in fact during the last six days musgrave has collected 85050 in donations nearly twice as much as her opp...... [Show More]
over the weekend cbs evening news reported on the slew of iraq and afghanistan veterans running for congress across the country this year.a the segment highlighted jill morgenthal ers bid to unseat gop rep. peter roskam in the 6th district.a watch her appearance below
you can view the whole report here .
on a related note the group v...... [Show More]
state of the races Post Source: www.vetvoice.com Posted: Oct 31 2008 20:20:55
jon soltz general ret. wesley clark and former senators bob kerrey and max cleland held a conference call for reporters today in which they described the state of the races for our votevetsendorsed candidates.
not to get ahead of ourselves or anything but we think were looking pretty good. votevets chairman jon soltz began by running down the individual races and finish...... [Show More]
the democratic independent group vote vets has a harsh new trio of mailers out going to voters in ohio.
they feature young veterans attacking mccain for allegedly betraying their cause on education funding funding for equipment and the economy .
the one above hits mccain for opposing jim webbs bill to increase funding for sending veterans to college which mccain warned woul...... [Show More]
votevets.org is hitting up to 75000 mailboxes in the third congressional district in support of democratic candidate ashwin madia who theyve endorsed and supported since before the endorsement.
images of the mailer can be found below. its pretty brutal the folks at votevets have great instincts when it comes to connecting independent expenditure campaigns to local leader...... [Show More]
were back up on the air with our body armor ad this time in georgia. you can view it here
the ad features peter granato iraq war veteran. in the ad granato fires shots from an ak47 through the kind of flak jacket troops were given early on in the war and modern body armor featuring stand alone protective insert sapi plates. the shots...... [Show More]
welcome to progressive news radio and three hours of news politics commentary interviews and more.
first it is with a very heavy heart that i announce the death of my mother marie swanson. after a brief illness she passed away in hot springs arkansas at 430 am pacific time on saturday october 25th. my father norman was by her side. she was 85 years young and lived a full ha...... [Show More]
democrat betsy markey left and rep. marilyn musgrave stand at their first debate in fort collins. photojason kosena
democrat betsy markey outraised her republican opponent rep. marilyn musgrave by a 21 margin during the first two weeks of october according to campaign finance records filed with the fec on thursday. markey a former senate staffer raised an average ...... [Show More]
a group of afghanistan and iraq war veterans responsible for a blistering attack on republican rep. marilyn musgrave a month ago launched a 1.3 million campaign in swing states wednesday including a hardhitting tv ad that questions john mccains commitment to veterans.
some elected officials have been friends of troops and veterans with their votes and others have not. we ...... [Show More]
thats cool with me Post Source: attackerman.firedoglake.com Posted: Sep 22 2008 21:31:29
at the end of a really good post on pakistan brandon friedman refers to a christopher hitchens piece from last week in slate that i missed while in paktia province. hitchens writes about obamas pakistan positions
obama is committed in advance to a serious projection of american power into the heartland of our deadliest enemy. and that i think is another reason why so many peopl...... [Show More]
a list Post Source: johnmccainisaliar.com Posted: Sep 18 2008 00:54:40
drinking liberally in new milford summarizes some of mccains lies thus far
if mccains lips are moving he is lying
the problem is that in an era where things can easily be verified i dont remember is sometimes passable and i never said that or i never did that is unacceptable and easily verifiable.a
we know thata he lied about not writing le...... [Show More]
as our attention goes to the republican contender mccain should be used to such unfair practices more than others since his failed campaign in 2000 none other candidate has fallen victim to such a number of unfair accusations. eight years ago when the arizona senator was considered as a man who can cripple the career of the young fgeorge bush supported by the republican power elites t...... [Show More]
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