Update: RNC begins airing radio ad in Berlin, N.H.

By Brian Lawson, PolitickerNH.com Reporter

While U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is visiting Berlin, Germany voters in Berlin, New Hampshire will hear a radio ad critical of Obama's record on troop funding.

The Republican National Committee is sponsoring the sixty-second ad titled "Obama Chooses Washington over Our Military."

"There are few votes as important as funding our men and women in uniform. But when our military needed necessary resources, Barack Obama failed to stand up," the announcer states. "Obama said that nobody wanted to play chicken with our troops on the ground. But when it came time to act, he voted against critical resources: no to individual body armor, no to helicopters, no to ammunition, no to aircraft."

The ad finishes with the line, "John McCain is ready to lead. Barack Obama is not."

The ad will also air in Berlin, Pennsylvania and Berlin, Wisconsin.

Update: “There are honest differences between Senator Obama’s position on Iraq and Senator McCain’s, but there’s no question that both support our troops. Under the RNC’s definition, John McCain would have also chosen politics over our military when he urged George Bush to veto funding for the troops, and we know that’s not the case. This is the sort of distasteful and misleading attack from the Rove playbook that the American people are tired of, that does nothing to give our troops the equipment they need, and distracts from the honest debate we should be having about how we can keep the country secure,” said Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan.

Brian Lawson is a PolitickerNH.com Reporter and can be reached via email at brian.lawson@politickernh.com.

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Army Times questions McCain's commitment to vets

posted by Jack Mitchell

It seems that some vets are "more vet" then others in McCain's eyes. The story quoted below illustrates the prevailing logic that led him to fight the New GI Bill. Back then he said that the Webb Bill favored those that got out of the military after serving a hitch or two. McCain wanted to save the dough for lifers that serve 20+ years.

There's this little phrase I am sure McCain knows, but seems to fail to grasp.

All gave some. Some gave all.

We don't play favorites Senator. No vet is "more vet" then others. All vets have answered the call. Some vets are called upon to overcome great challenges. Some are called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice. But all vets, Senator, stood ready to answer whatever was asked of them. For that, we can at least provide competent health care to each and every one.

From The Army Times
Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s call to “concentrate” veterans’ health care on those with combat injuries is raising questions about the Arizona senator’s commitment to funding the ailing VA system.

Rep. Bob Filner, D-Calif., said a system that treats combat veterans and non-combat veterans differently is inherently unfair. “We can care for both combat veterans and non-combat veterans if we just decide it is an important thing to do,” Filner said Thursday, one day after McCain talked at a Dover, N.H., town hall meeting about the need to concentrate veterans’ health care on people with injuries that “are a direct result of combat.”

“Right now, there are people who drive a long way and they stand in line to stand in line to get an appointment to get an appointment,” McCain said.

Filner agreed veterans are being ill-served by the Veterans Affairs Department, but he disagreed with the idea that only combat veterans deserved attention. “We are not providing adequate health care for combat veterans. We are not providing adequate care for veterans who never saw combat,” Filner said.

Paul Sullivan, executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, said McCain “appears to want to significantly narrow the number of veterans who can use VA, and that would alarm many veterans.”

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/07/military_mccain_healthcare_072208/

07/23/08 11:29 pm