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Originally Posted by scbelle
Well, I won't take the AFL-CIO's word for stuff, but I did get the congressional report card from IAVA (Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America) just now and looked up the presidential candidates, in addition to my own representatives. They used 9 votes in this past session (including the new GI bill and VA funding) as criteria. McCain got a grade like many other vet organizations have given gim: D. Obama got a B.
http://www.veteranreportcard.org/ |
Ignoring the AFL/CIO and The Nation are fine, but why is everyone skipping over what scbelle posted? I think it's interesting info. if a veteran's advocacy group gives only 4 Senators a grade of "D" and McCain is one of them.
http://www.veteranreportcard.org/list.html