Letters to the Editor
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Bitter? Why should those rubes be bitter?
We provide them with a means of employment suitable for their station in life, and prevent them from getting education that would put presumptuous ideas in their heads such as questioning us when we tell them that LIBRULS are coming for their guns and Bibles.
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Seriously...
This old man is what we have to worry about in the fall? I wonder when the media will stop giving him a virtual lap dance and start taking a hard look at the "maverick".
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Absolutely disgusting
I thought social mobility through education was the foundation American dream.
We don't want our soldiers to become socially mobile?
That's both wicked and counterproductive.
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Bad move pissing off Vice President Webb
Jim Webb is one of the major sponsers of this bill. He's also one of the leading V.P. candidates, whichever Democrat wins.
The guys got a grip like a bulldog. Reportedly he was one of the few people in the Marines who could make Ollie North sweat.
McCain's gonna regret this from now until November. Webb will make his life a living hell. I definitely wouldn't have done this.
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Well...
...now we know who the real elitists are, don't we?
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We'll have to wait and see ...
... if the media will stop propping him up. He got a pass on Hagee, Iran/Iraq ...
I can't help but think his lack of support for this bill won't endear him to some veterans in the fall.
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Incentive to get out of the military?
(Republicans) "worry that a more generous and expansive GI Bill would create an incentive for troops to get out of the military and go to college."
Do the Republicans really think that soldiers need any more incentive to get out than they already have? Many soldiers who are supposed to be able to muster out aren't even allowed to do so as it is.
The Bush administration has created a major problem for the all-volunteer army as it is by starting an endless war in Iraq for the profit of their backers. What's going to happen when the next administration ends the stop loss policy and more soldiers are actually allowed to leave?
In future elections Republicans will blame the Democrats for weakening the military. I really hope that the voters, and our soldiers, can remember that they're lying.
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how long?
How long will people continue to be duped into believing that the GOP cares about those who serve in the military?
Silly me, I was under the impression that the GI Bill was actually a pretty good thing.
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Trumpet this about
Let's make sure our soldiers and their families know about this, and that they hear McCain's preposterous way of talking about it.
McCain's blunders are piling up. His unfitness for command is becoming more evident. Within a month or so, the roof will crash on his presitential chance.
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I knew it!
Those damn Democrats, always undermining the troops and our military by supporting their education.
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"Go McCain!"
Yea, just keep siding with Bush. Perhaps McCain thinks no one will notice or care that he has just screwed people who put their lives on the line for a war he supports! Somehow I don't think so.
All sarcasm aside, we know that education is one of the greatest transformative agents in our society. Given that educational levels correlate to long-term economic stability and ability to "rise", so to speak, the McCain/Bush rejection of the GI Bill is unforgivable. Totally unforgivable.
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The worst sort of journalism ...
... but par for the course from Salon and particularly Benen.
The ABC report clearly states, "[McCain] has remained silent on the issue, saying he had not studied the bill close enough."
Then Benen, in a feat of spectacularly clumsy editorializing disguised as journalism, writes, "Bush administration officials, and apparently McCain, "worry that a more generous and expansive GI Bill would create an incentive for troops to get out of the military and go to college."
No, McCain clearly said he has not supported it yet because he has not studied it enough.
The "apparently" clause is the most shoddy of "journalistic" sleight-of-hand. YOu should be ashamed of yourself, but of course you're not.
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McCain and the Draft
McCain seems to display a one track mind when it comes to the "War on Terrorism".....
Keep fighting until we win, at ALL costs.
When we run out of competent soldiers, then what?
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In a related story...
Senator John McCain has agreed to co-sponsor legislation, introduce by Sen. Joe Lieberman that would make military personnel who are able to gain employment with Blackwater, Inc. exempt from state and federal income taxes.
"It's about priorities and fiscal responsibility." McCain said while cruising in his Straight Talk Express. "Bleeding heart liberals are always trying to tax and spend tax payer money on some pie in the sky scheme designed to make people dependent on big government for a hand-out." I'm a tax-cutting, Christian, varmint hunter, and I was against a humane immigration policy before I was for it, then against it.
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They won't let anyone out of the military.
They won't let you leave except feet first. Does the Mafia need a GI Bill? Hell no, so why would the government want to provide educational benefits? When the goal is to keep people in the dark, the first order of business is to extinguish the light at the end of the tunnel.
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@Sol
Well then what is McCain waiting for?
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@Sol - 2
... you would think a Senator with as much experience as him would find it easy to read bills, and decide whether they are worth supporting, especially one like this.
Didn't take Senators Obama and Clinton very long ...
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MCBUSH ON A NEW GI BILL:
McBUSH HATES AMERICAN SERVICEMEN & WOMEN & WANTS THEM TO BE STUPID, SO THAT THEY WILL NEVER HAVE ACCESS TO THE SORT OF POWER THAT HE WIELDS NOW AS A WEALTHY PERSON IN THE SENATE. THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO SHOULD GO TO COLLEGE IN THE MCBUSH WORLD ARE KIDS OF PEOPLE LIKE MCBUSH.
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We're crippling the American dream of social mobility through education
to enable to American fantasy of security through pointing guns at everything in sight.
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McCain, Veteran, Friend of the Military
This is how millions of misguided Americans see this man. However, John McCain is not one of them. Senator McCain, VIP, married to a large trust fund will never have to wait in line at a VA clinic, will never have a request for treatment rejected because of a paperwork snafu, will NEVER have to worry about housing, and never have to worry about how he'll receive treatment if the program gets cut.
Many thousands of men and women do have these worries and they are relying on people like McCain to make sure they get the benefits promised and that they have earned. Too bad they put their faith in someone who treats them this badly but unfortunately they'll turn around and vote for him again, because he's "pro-military". He'll show his support of the military by cutting the veterans' funding so that the stockholders at GE or Northrop Drummund can have a pork barrel project that does nothing but empty the coffers. That's ultimately how he helps support the troops.