VFW endorses Boxer; Freeper heads explode

[Enrique]

Accenting again the campaign focus she has placed on veterans' affairs, Sen. Barbara Boxer on Sunday formally opened a veterans' center at Pasadena City College and was later brought to tears by a forceful defense of her record by Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, a highly decorated member of Congress.

Inouye joined Boxer for her formal endorsement by the political action committee of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, whose California chairman also praised Boxer's work on behalf of veterans.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2605218/posts

lots of "WTF"'s. :rofl:


edit: McCain is angry about it too.

http://www.carlyforca.com/2010/10/senator-john-mccain-retired-marine-corps-lt-colonel-orson-swindle-other-veterans-denounce-boxers-failure-to-support-troops/

[arbusto_baboso]

1. To a Freeper, "supporting the troops" means to be pro-war.

They don't understand that Boxer ACTUALLY SUPPORTS the troops. Even after they muster out.

[NewJeffCT]

28. +1

That is the Republican mentality

[Kolesar]

30. well said...eom

[Scuba]

33. And they're soooo wrong....

...the troops are only harmed by war. A yellow ribbon means nothing.

Thank you Barbara Boxer.

[Submariner]

35. Freepers on ly support the Troops because they are too chickenshit

to join the battle themselves. Conservatives are easily frightened and run away scared. Dickless Cheney and little Billy Kristol are prime examples.

[Duval]

48. And George W Bush! n/t

[Love Bug]

40. Word.

[daleanime]

2. Thanks, I guess...

now I need a shower, how can people be so hateful?:puke:

[4lbs]

3. That's probably because Boxer knows that "supporting the troops" is more than just flag-waving

during war time.

It's voting for VA healthcare to take care of the veterans.

It's voting for FHA funding to give veterans good rates on good home loans.

It's voting for enhancing troop pay.

It's voting to actually fund veterans' education under the G.I. Bill.

It's voting to actually fund the equipment that troops need to do their daily tasks effectively and as safely as possible. That way, their families don't have to spend $1000 each of their own money on body armor or to outfit their soldiers' humvees with extra armor.

All of those were cut or hampered under Bushie.

[Aramchek]

4. Boxer is kicking Fiorina's tail all over the place.

[xxqqqzme]

5. She only has to kick it on November 2.

That's the one that counts.


Is there ANYthing mclame isn't grumpy about? Isn't that his default position these days.

[Aramchek]

6. sure, but we can have fun, can't we?

[rbilancia]

7. Freepers are a bunch of fucking douche-drinking delusional right wing freaks.

[47of74]

39. Thanks so much for the mental image

[Duval]

47. Thank You for my first laugh of today! :)

[K8-EEE]

8. Example of Freepers supporting veterans:

"I know some vets around here who are stuck on the entitlement train. They are also running around gushing guilt over Vietnam. One of them rants about shooting a 10 year old kid who was about to toss a grenade, and how bad he feels about it. I almost wish the kid had been a little bit faster!"

:wtf:

[Raine1967]

13. Did you seriously pick that up from FR?

OMG -- that is just hateful. Above and beyond the kind of hate I see from that side.

[K8-EEE]

18. Yep it's at the link from the OP nt

[COLGATE4]

15. You can be sure that the candy-ass little Freeper who wrote that

wasn't within 5000 miles on VN. Little prick. Fuck him.

[Blue_Tires]

54. I think he's one of those kids of the 80s to whom Vietnam is only

a video game or Hollywood-ized action movie...I recognize the mindset because I had it myself before growing a brain...

[The Doctor.]

27. I know some guys at a local VFW who'd love to have a talk with that prick.

Then, after he wet his pants, they'd still buy him a beer.

[SemperEadem]

32. and that thinks it's entitled to dictate my life to me

FR is full of nothing but satan worshippers.

[AlbertCat]

46. FR is full of nothing but satan worshippers.

That's an insult to Satan worshipers everywhere!


(Besides, they sound more like Fundigelicals to me.)

[Enthusiast]

41. I read that.

Unbelievable!

[Jester Messiah]

51. Saw that. Typical.

It's a wonder their cognitive dissonance doesn't explode their tiny little brains, but I guess in order to have cognitive dissonance one would first have to have cognition.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

9. HaHa! nt

[David Zephyr]

10. K&R.

!

[KingFlorez]

11. Perhaps they to support a person who will not cut their benefits

Carly certainly wouldn't be trustworthy when it came to that. Tax cuts for the rich would come first.

[treestar]

12. Freeper heads exploding is always such a beautiful sight to see!

[DearAbby]

14. So that is what that dull popping noise was?

:rofl:

[southmost]

16. freeper head explosions always make me smile

:)

[madmax]

21. I must confess

I'll go slumming every once in a while and usually can't take more than 3 minutes or so but, the link to their thread really had me laughing. :rofl:

[saltpoint]

17. Yes, Barbara Boxer, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

[golfguru]

19. Ahh so you are a lurker on FR

:rofl:

[Texas Mom]

45. Who isn't?

It's pure comedy gold over there, and it's free! As for being a lurker, anyone with a brain has to lurk, since they ban anyone who posts the truth and facts.

[47of74]

53. I suppose I could too, but I don't feel like

I suppose I could too, but I don't feel like subjecting my computers to the horrors of RimJob land. They're too good to me for me to make them go there.

[madmax]

20. Oh Gawd!! Your post

made my day. Thanks so much for the laughs. I love DU. Gotta stop smoking. :hippie:

[Zambero]

22. Actions are winning over words (finally!)

The Republican notion of supporting the troops is sending them off to wage an ill-conceived war without proper equipment or body armor. Oh, I guess I forgot about those yellow ribbon magnets. As a legislator, Senator Boxer has been a leader in advocating for veterans, especially those that have service-related disabilities. The GOP has habitually taken veterans for granted, at their peril as Boxer's poll numbers continue to increase.

[laughingliberal]

23. +1000 nt

[Hekate]

24. Boxer is my Senator and Inouye used to be. Here's an LA Times link

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/10/boxer-highlights-endorsement-by-vfw-pac.html

I :loveya: them both. :patriot:

Hekate

[madmax]

25. The one about the Vets being Democrats

and blaming all their woes on the miliatary. Man it just can't anymore bizzaro than this? Can it? I've met a lot of wing nuts but, these are a really strange breed. :crazy:

[UrbScotty]

26. I'm cautiously optimistic about Boxer. She has the momentum!

Here's to a fourth term!

[indimuse]

KNR! n/t

[indimuse]

29. KNR! n/t

[tclambert]

31. I love the sound of Freeper heads exploding in the morning

afternoon, evening, and night.

[Rozlee]

34. In the past, I used to be practically the only Dem in the Army....

...how times have changed. I'm medically retired now. As a volunteer at Audie Murphy, I made damn sure that all vets knew that it was Rethugs that were marching in lockstep to block unemployment benefits a few months ago. So many of those unemployed are vets coming back from the Gulf. I also made sure that they knew that only one vote got them those benefits back and that a flood of new Rethugs coming into power in the fall would no doubt get them taken away again. That really got their dander up. Hopefully, it will also get them to the polls and make them angry enough to vote Dem for a long time to come. Because you know that a lot of vet programs currently on the chopping blocks will be cut off once those bastards have the necessary votes to do it.

[whathehell]

37. Thank you for your service...and keep up that good work!

I read your profile...Your inspirational!

[randr]

36. Veteran's issues is another example of the dems dropping the ball

Obama has done more for vets than the last 4 administrations. Some vets know this and people working with the VA know this. The Dems do not promote this as a reason to vote Democratic.

[whathehell]

38. Agreed...The Democratic Party needs a PR department. n/t

[BREMPRO]

42. HAHAHAHAHAHa!! Touche' Sure they remember Bush and how poorly they were treated by pukes.

so much for expectations.

[pasto76]

43. Sen. Inouye is will always owe me an answer for voting against $13B for more UP Armour

2005 vote. MF'er.

sgt pasto

[Bette Noir]

44. Yay. Or should I say, "Ha, ha."

[wmbrew0206]

49. The VFW PAC and the VFW are seperate organizations. The VFW is not happy about this.

The VFW is even looking into disbanding the PAC over some of their endorsements.

http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=news.newsDtl&did=5596

[geek tragedy]

50. I think I dislike McCain more than I do Bush.

He's not quite at Cheney's level of evil, but he does make up for it by being pathetic.

[Enrique]

52. 'Asked about McCain's objection, Boxer merely smiled...'

I LOVE this story! :rofl:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/10/boxer-highlights-endorsement-by-vfw-pac.html

(...)

Asked after her speech about McCain's objection, Boxer merely smiled and replied: "I'm so excited to have the VFW endorsement. I couldn't be more thrilled."