How a President Who Genuinely Respects Veterans Speaks About Veterans

Few things in the last eight years made me crazier than the frat-boy-smart-ass tone of Smirky's speeches about and to veterans. You could see it in his face, what he was really thinking:

"You stupid chumps. While you obediently went to war, I escaped active duty in a champagne unit and blew off even that. Yet I not only escaped life imprisonment for desertion during wartime, I'm the effin' president, while you retards are begging for wheelchairs from the VA budget I stripped."

Hard as it is to believe, Smirky actually held the same job title held by the person who spoke in Normandy on the 65th anniversary of D-Day, and whose passionate sincerity carried across an ocean.



Full remarks here.

I was privileged today to speak with a D-Day veteran. A deeply conservative and religious man, a lifelong republican whose ideal politician is Bob Dole, he said this about President Obama:

"I didn't vote for him, but I'm really rooting for him to do well, and I think he will."

I couldn't speak around the sob in my throat.

Cross-posted at They Gave Us A Republic ....