Weary warriors favor Obama

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jaham wrote:

One weary warrior that is.

I have the suspicion that your sample population size may be just a wee bit small to draw a statistically significant conclusion here.

May 14, 2012 10:07am EDT  --  Report as abuse
KDupre wrote:

One has to give our president credit. He’s on every side of every issue while sounding genuine each time.

May 14, 2012 10:15am EDT  --  Report as abuse
morbas wrote:

As a Vietnam Veteran, I oppose mission creep in Afghanistan. In passive protest I have switched to ‘unaffiliated’ party.

May 14, 2012 10:55am EDT  --  Report as abuse
stambo2001 wrote:

Is this a complete re-write or did reuters simly delete all the comments that pointed out what everybody knows to be true? The VAST majority of military personnel support Ron Paul for presidente of the united states of america, a republican, and NOT obama the ‘Lord of the Drones’.

May 14, 2012 10:56am EDT  --  Report as abuse
ErnestPayne wrote:

Bring back the draft. That should make a lot of “pro war” people put their bodies where their mouths are.

May 14, 2012 10:59am EDT  --  Report as abuse
stambo2001 wrote:

@KDupre Refreshing to see someone with perspective. The fellow holds a Nobel Peace Prize in one hand while ordering extra-judicial assassination with the other. Yet the masses cheer and drool as if beholding a God. There will be a self-fulfilled reckoning to end this.

Historians will look back on us with shame. History will not be kind to the weakness of our generation for allowing this fascism to occur, once again rising to adolation and cheering crowds. We’ve learned nothing.

May 14, 2012 11:03am EDT  --  Report as abuse
Chazz wrote:

@Reuters
“Weary warriors favor Obama”….then you say, “Asked about Obama’s handling of his job, 27 percent of veterans approved, and 37 percent disapproved, with the rest undecided.”

Hummm…..

May 14, 2012 11:13am EDT  --  Report as abuse
bobber1956 wrote:

@Reuters
You are deluded if you seriously believe the American People are buying this any longer. As posted above by stambo2001, we know this is a “reprint” of a story where about 80% of the posters called BS on you. Nothing has changed. BS!

CMSG USA RET(28yrs)

@ morbas
I am most definatly a Nam vet and there is nothing peacful about my protests when I choose one. Who got your balls soldier?

May 14, 2012 12:08pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
bobber1956 wrote:

@chazz
They are not undecided. For active duty military personnel to voice opposition to the President (Commander in Chief) is a court martial offense punishable up to death. We will here form them on the their ballots. The good news is 73% are NOT for him.

May 14, 2012 12:14pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
fraenkelfred wrote:

Where are the editors? if we want opinion we’ll go to opinion. We shouldnt be subject to patisan drivel masquerading as news

Time for Ms Roosevelt to get fired at Reuters too!

May 14, 2012 1:21pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
TOTL wrote:

Unfortunately Reuters you can’t talk to the soldiers actively serving. If you did, you’d see a completely different message. McCrystal is emblematic of the low regard for Obama that our soldiers have. Using soldiers for a photo op on the anniversary of bin Laden’s death demonstrates his low regard. Obama’s only use for the soldiers is to figure out how he can use them to solidify his destruction of the Consitution. Fortunately, our military leadership takes an oath to “defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and “to obey the LAWFUL orders of those appointed over me”.

May 14, 2012 1:26pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
old-timer wrote:

Come to Ft Leonard Wood and do your report, Its at least 100 to 1 against Obama both officer corp and enlisted

May 14, 2012 1:34pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
RHAB wrote:

I wrote to the President and my Representatives that we get with Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Russia and build a Pipeline, Four ’4′ lane highway and a railroad from Russia to the Arabian sea as that is what Russia wanted when they attacked Afghanistan.Russia does not have a warm water port so they want a way to get their goods ‘OIL’ to market. Rex

May 14, 2012 1:35pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
Robert76 wrote:

I have to wonder just where the posters who claim Obama is destroying the constitution get their information.

There are all kinds of claims rolling around about Obama and yet no one has facts…..just blind hatred fed by conservative talk shows.

As a Veteran, I have seen medical care and benefits rise for Veterans under President Obama. I have seen him trying to fix a damaged economy. I have seen him try to changes our wartime policys from invading countrys that have nothing to do with 9/11 to one of hunting down and punishing the people who actually were responsible. That policy has been more cost effective both monetarily and man power wise than invading countries at will and turning the whole world against us.

Apparently the Anti-Obama posters have a real short memory in that they do not remember how invading Iraq and turned world sympathy for us after 9/11 into world disgust for us.

I have also seen the Party of No fighting this President at every opportunity instead of trying to move this country forward. As a “former Republican” I am disgusted by their power play.

Never in my 60 plus years have I ever seen so many false emails with rediculous claims against any President. Even people I once considered “intellegent” will pass on these emails with the absolute belief that they are truth, without so much as checking facts on sites such as Factcheck or Snopes. I guess they have their minds made up and cannot be bothered with the facts.

May 14, 2012 1:55pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
fromthecenter wrote:

@Robert76 I couldn’t agree more!

May 14, 2012 2:13pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
bobber1956 wrote:

@Robert76
The two most obvious, The pesonal mandate is against the US Constitution. To prevent States from defending their borders is against the US Constituion. Of course they (The United States Supreme Court) have not ruled but they will. Those attemps are both attacks on the Constitution.

May 14, 2012 2:24pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
crawdad88 wrote:

Amen, Robert76. If one TRULY cared about America, they would at least check the facts FROM A LEGITIMATE SOURCE.

May 14, 2012 2:27pm EDT  --  Report as abuse
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