Hillary buys air time in Georgia, take a look:
Georgia Democrats have been clamoring that Georgia needs to be considered among North Carolina and Virginia as states worthy of investment. After polls showing that she is running close here, Hillary Clinton may have been convinced. The campaign is running the following ad showing veterans and Gold Star parents watching Donald Trump’s remarks.
Georgia has the 9th most veterans. And it stands to reasons that many more people in Georgia know or are related to a veteran than other states.* Trump has made his appeal to veterans a cornerstone of his campaign, which is why an erosion of that foundation could spell difficulty. This ad reminds voters of what has been Trump’s least successful period during the campaign: the Democratic convention and his statements regarding the parents of the fallen soldier that spoke. It will be interesting to see how this ad buy affects Georgia’s numbers.
* Where are veterans least prevalent (as a percentage of the state’s population), you ask? New York and New Jersey.
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If you want to help those currently serving, maybe we should ask them which president they would rather serve under? Its about those that are currently putting it all on the line everyday. Who has demeaned them for 8 years?
Who has made their job harder and put them at risk everyday? Democrats
So if you love the men and women of our military and want to thank them for their service. Remember how President Obama treated them over the last 8 years.
I have asked four of the five relatives I have actively serving. Not one is voting for Trump, including the life long Republican with 23 years of active service under 4 presidents.
Ellynn: Obama just announced a 20% reduction in military retirement benefits, do they support that policy?
I know that the 4 I talked to are not Democrats, one is an actual registered Republican and a high ranking officer who is on target for star on his shoulder before the decade ends, so I’m going to guess the answer is no. I However; I was not commenting on President Obama. You asked if anyone talked to a member of the military. I told you how much the 4 I talked to dislike, distrust and in two cases fear the current Republican nominee and are not voting for him.
Where do you get your information? I don’t think the president gets to do stuff like that. Surely that would have to go through Congress?
Dear Benevolus: I pay for and read a lot of economic and investment newsletters. Mauldin Economics is my favorite and I pay for and read many others.
For fun I click on Drudge to laugh.
For great conservative writing I read the editorials at Investor Business Digest. The editorials are fill because its basically a listing of stock prices and their trends.
Andrew: Besides being a rapid democrat, have you ever in your life done anything to serve your country?
I could easily answer your question above and give specifics but after reading all your comments your not worth the effort.
Its about supporting those that put it on the line everyday and what they need to do there jobs. Its about our whole country not you rapid democrat nuts.
I use the term rapid because it appears you do not think before posting and are a democrat first without reason or facts.
Obama has just announced he signed the TPP over labor day without congressional approval.
And Obama just announced (he didn’t he is hiding from the public) a 20% reduction in military retirement benefits. So much for your argument that he cares about the Military.
Links?
This information came from Armstrong Economics. The news media doesn’t report much these days. If you follow stocks you can get some news of Washington from those.
TPP will have an effect on stocks.
I’d be careful with that Martin Armstrong stuff. It’s kinda like french fries- tastes good but bad for you.
LynnG, are you talking about the Blended Retirement System that “was designed by the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission and approved by Congress last year”, according to the Stars and Stripes? Or is there some other military retirement act that Obama is hiding from the public?
http://www.stripes.com/almost-a-million-current-military-personnel-are-expected-to-opt-for-blended-retirement-system-1.427186
i think his care for the military is apparent in actions reducing their exposure to violent fora. also- there is a reason why qualifications to be CIC does not include experience as a military leader. it is bc not all policy should or will be driven by the desires of a military. every government agency- incl. the DoD, CIA, etc- has a sort of cultural agenda that seeks organic expansion, or at least legitimization, of power. sometimes that power needs to be reined in, or even obfuscated, by the CIC, in the name of broader national interests, which incl. non-military uses of power.
also, the Pres’s support for veteran jobs programs and to end vet homelessness have been remarkable. the VA has been messy for a long time, and it will continue to be for at least a while.
FYI,
Incase I ever misspell something or become grammatically offending, I’m technically dyslexic and ask you take pity on me Andrew…
Well then you won’t need that teather. 🙂
Mr. Pope: I guess you don’t follow the news from the G 20 meeting in China. Try reading other countries news.
Our news media is under the control of our government.
Well Obama did salute with a cup of coffee in his hand that time.
And increased use of drones, and many fewer coming home in body bags is certainly indicative the job is harder and riskier.
So what will Hillary do for the military and the veterans serving? This commercial like every other one her group has put out says nothing about her plans. Just attack Trump who is killing her in polls with active military and vets – http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/poll-trump-leads-clinton-among-military-veteran-voters-n643501
As I write, Trump is speaking about his military/defense plans. Specifics even. HRC has a track record of putting our troops in harms way with no ability to fight, supporting the decrease in military readiness and getting us involved in countries with no plan for winning. What is her plan if somehow she becomes the (cough, cough) POTUS? Every vet I know despises her, especially those who are currently serving under this regime with their insane rules of engagement.
I thought you didn’t believe in polls.
I don’t Benevolus, but if I had provided only anecdotal support, you would have commented that I had no real evidence. Since most here trust polling, I linked one.
When will Hillary explain how she will handle defense as POTUS instead of putting out more BS ads like the one in this thread? Seems she thinks she can just ride it out til November hoping enough voters will ignore mounds of evidence against her as SecState. Her record belies her readiness contention.
HRC knows how this works. It’s just now Labor Day and I am confident team Clinton will get more serious and detailed now. More than you can handle.
This is how she will handle ISIS according to your link, “combating-terrorism” – We have to defeat ISIS on the battlefield by:
1. Intensifying the coalition air campaign against ISIS fighters, leaders, and infrastructure;
2. Stepping up support for local Arab and Kurdish forces on the ground and coalition efforts to protect civilians; and
3. Pursuing a diplomatic strategy aimed at resolving Syria’s civil war and Iraq’s sectarian conflict between Sunnis and Shias—both of which have contributed to the rise of ISIS.
Come on ACP, you can’t be serious. What is different in this very non-specific ‘plan’ from the current extremely unsuccessful ‘plan’ implemented by her and Obama?
She actually wants to bomb the crap out of them and take their oil, but she doesn’t want to tip them off.
He’s speaking with himself on foreign policy, number one, because he has a very good brain and has said a lot of things. Whatever his foreign policy solutions are, like every else they’ll be tremendous and effected quickly.
Same can be said for most of the SS agents who were on hers and Bill’s detail…there is a real, real dislike of them both.
Even if I believed that it wouldn’t matter. Whether your SS detail likes you or not is not a criteria worth anything. And any SS agent who says that kind stuff has lost any trust and confidence we gave them anyway. I remember everybody thought GWB was such a great guy, “would like to have a beer with him”… Look how that turned out.
I could see where Bill might have cared whether those guys liked him, I think he liked to be liked. HRC? I doubt if she gives a rats ass whether they like her or not. So what.
edit: The more I think about it, the more upsetting it is to think of SS agents divulging info like this. How unprofessional! The MAIN THING the SS does is protect leaders and therefore they have to be privy to a lot of personal details, and for them to violate that trust is outrageous. It’s even outrageous if they are pretending to divulge information to make money off of their access. Disgusting.
B, your post sounds like many I’ve said about past SS leaks. I’ve railed against those more than most on this blog and others. All you have to do to get details like the SS didn’t like the Clintons, Bill or Hill, or Carter, for that matter, is to read one of Ronald Kessler’s books on the subject. The recent one, published by the Uniformed Division guy, was equally bad. Bart just posted that the vets he’s familiar with don’t like Hilly. I just posted that most of the SS guys I know feel likewise. Those sentiments are well known in and out of the protective services.
However, to be “fair and balanced”, if you’re gonna get worked up about the “trust and confidence we gave them” thing, please unleash a wee bit of venom toward your party’s nominee who couldn’t be “trusted” to guard our nation’s most sensitive classified national security secrets. I know, I know…it’s a lot to ask.
Well if she were running against Jesus you might have a point. But she’s not.
And I don’t need some “inside information” to help me decide whether I like Clinton or not. I don’t care if some SS agents like her or not. I have plenty of direct input from which to form an opinion. And, I also don’t feel like I have to like her to accept her as a potentially successful CIC. Fer cryin’ out loud, does anybody really like Trump? He seems like the archetypal ahole to me. I don’t think people support him because they think he’s nice.