Democrats Fight for Veterans' Votes

Bush Seen as Vulnerable on Key Military and Foreign Policy Questions

For years, veterans were seen as solidly in the Republican camp. But Democrats, especially those in Congress, are fighting hard for veterans' votes in 2004.

On Veterans Day, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) released a report on how many disabled veterans will fail to benefit from a recent GOP-crafted tax reduction. She mentions veterans repeatedly in news conferences, and has assigned a staffer to e-mail veterans about what the Democratic Party is doing to help them.

"Our veterans served for all of us," Pelosi said in a recent statement. "We must be there for all of them."

From health care to disability benefits, the two parties are sparring on issues important to veterans. Some observers say these retired military personnel, often impatient with Bush administration domestic and foreign policies, are listening.

"Democrats for the first time are really courting the military vote," said Joe Barnes, national executive secretary of the Fleet Reserve Association. Issues that have been bipartisan for years, he said, "have moved to become more politicized."

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and we all need to reach to them

lots of them.

Perhaps a friend over there will leave them around in the MWR tent.

Send along those "Are you better off than you were four years ago" Buzzflash post cards as well.

will get some of them when we get back to Cali and send a bunch
of them to our adopted kids... (as in soldiers)

You mean the dems actually mean to step up to the plate?

Be still my heart...

It's about damn time!!!

Here's one Vet they don't have to fight for. Have been against the chicken hawk party since the 80's.

Wolfie and Cheney are scum. While my friends were dying they were attending wine and cheese parties in college and making contacts to get rich.

They are low life murdering hoodlums, who get others to do their killing.

It's expected you will spend them. Depersonalized. I can't BEGIN to understand how they got this way, other than the fact their leaders kept a deep distance from the fighting in Viet Nam, and they simply have no signifigant people of experience among them.