OMG – this man has no shame – he is trying so hard to be President and seeing the way he is going, he has about as much chance as a snowball in Hades. I haven’t disliked a candidate this much since Nixon.

And there are people still voting for this son of a gun. What will it take to open their mind?

I think Rommey should make a list of all his lies, a long list! Take to his church and ask Gods forgiveness! THEN run for ….. oh what ever but not President of the United States

Veteran suicides are Obama’s fault because of cuts in the defense budget. When I shred Veterans medical benefits, they’ll be ok with it
Somehow that attitude doesn’t really work for me.

Right on, Nana! He’s lied for so long, the truth isn’t in him! Just pray that the American citizens will have the good sense to know a liar when they read this one! For shame!!!

Oy. Obama has tripled the VA budget and the Ryan budget, which Romney called “marvelous”, cuts is back to Bush days….It’s really sad that Romney is so willing to lie about everything…

I’m a disabled vet. I use the VA health system. Although it’s not perfect I’m
happy it’s there for me.

As ususal, if the facts don’t fit their view, let’s do away with the facts.

My, oh my, Mr. Romney you need to stop over reaching your knowledge of the military. Don’t you know that military offense (called defense most of the time) is not the same as the Veterans Administration (VA)?

The VA cares for our needs after returning from combat areas. You need a boot from boot camp.

As attorney Welsh said to Joseph McCarthy at the Army/McCartgy hearings (1950′s)….”Sir, have you no sense of decency?”

Mitt Romney is lower than whale shit in my opinion. How anyone as depraved as he is can get to run for President is frightening. He makes the sleeziest of used car salesmen look like Saints. If I were a Mormon, I’d bow my head in shame.

Is there no depths he will not sink to? I am sickened by this man.

This is outrageous. The Vet benefits are not in the sequestration. Even worse, the regular updated VET BENEFITS providing increases to keep up with inflation for Vets and the FUNDING to provide FAMILY DEATH BENEFITS who die in action have been placed ON HOLD -STOPPED in the Senate BY two unnamed REPUBLICANS – two Senate snakes.
The VETS JOBS BILL that would have addressed the very problems that Romney is talking about WAS filibustered and thereby KILLED by the REPUBLICANS who, though Republicans were co-sponsors of the bill, it was paid for and had more than 50 votes, and though every eighty minutes unemployed, depressed and dispairing vets commit suicide and the Republicans are doing nothing to help them and everything to prevent Obama and the Senate Democrats from helping the Vets, , Romney has the audacity to blame Obama.

These dispicable comments are a clear sign of a totally out of control Romney/Ryan campaign.

Mitt Romney may be the biggest scumbag in history.

I do not know where he has been but my husband fought in WWII & Korea, he came back wounded and mentally impaired, my brother fought in Vietnam , he has Post Traumatic , neither one of these had Mental Health when they returned home, especially my brother, people spit at him and Obama had nothing to do with this.

Given the needs of our veterans, how in the world, as commander-in-chief, you could stand by as we shrink our military commitment financially is something that I don’t understand, and I will reverse it,” he added//// how could you ever understand anything like this as for you as you run and hide like a coward when the country would need you to help it . and you taught your 5 boys well be cowards like daddy take a shot for the country anti-christ romney a shot to your empty head

Romney is correct: the mental well-being of American veterans is a crisis. By crassly using that crisis as a political football, however, he opens himself up to a debate about who really stands for veterans — and it’s a debate that he really does not want to have./// well yes one can understand the ant-christ romney at this point for him never being in any battle or war ( because the coward runs and hides ) and with out ever beinging in any conflick at all he still has more mind problems then any solder comeing back . one of the troops could have a bomb go off in his head and still wont hit the damage that romney has in his mind

Budget what budget. There hasn’t’ been a budget since Obama was elected. His proposal is no more than cut to the military at a time when its needed most. Not good, not now.

Even if a person hates Obama with all there hart, and disagrees with everything he has done, or wants to do, why would they vote for a pair of – juvenile delinquents, like Romney and Ryon? They can’t even agree on which window to brake first.

How can you want to be president when you don’t know that the defense dept. and the VA have seperate budgets. Goes along with his projected attitude that as president he will just do everything without the advice of congress.

As a Vet availing myself of the services of the V.A. hospital system, I have noted no increase or decrease of the assistance from them. I don’t believe either Obama or anyone else has had anything to do with this. The country is proud of their vets and any attempt to delete any of the services would really be a backstabbing move by our politicians.

Actually the subject above and any connection to sequestration is yours. Veterans, particulary those needing access to the subject above recognized the two as separate. It is possible make the connection to cuts caused by sequestration if you consider that cuts affect religious service activities, such as counseling. Make this connection, then yes, sequestration does affect benefits. One considering suicide may have a change of heart if religious counceling is more readily, abundantly accessable.

God this man is ruthless, Please people, VOTE. Do not allow this nasty low life nothing rich arrogant POS a chance. The only way you can do that is to vote. Take it real seriously this time. Our childrens future depend on this. Take away his money and he is truly garbarge, without a soul!!!!

The man is totally lacking in scruples. He continues to sieze upon any subject that would be taboo for political purposes by other politicians just to lash out at the President. Vets, Libyan diplomats and Navy Seals murdered, using defense budget cuts, etc. just to further his cause, are fair game to this dishonest man. Is this the type of person we want in the White House, I ask you? If he gets in, those who voted for him deserve whatever they get. The fallout, however, is innocent people will get hurt. But he has already said he is not concerned about the 49% and has already written them off.

“Chickenhawk” Romney does not seem to have a clue about the military. He also doesn´t seem tpo have a clue about efficient cost management in the military. Yes, you can cut defense spending costs by at least 50% by eliminating a lot of the cost overruns, etcetera. But troops come first. And troops with “p.t.s.d.” and other social psychological disordrs do need our love, our support. I myself am a nam era vet. A lot of friends and relatives were wounded, some killed, and some M.I.A. forever. ” And more American troop veterans of Vietnam died by their own hand than were killed in the entire conflict!

Shit he was missionizing in France while the rest of our generation was either serving or opposing the war. “Chickenhawks” politicisation of vet suicides was “over the top again”. Chckenhawk Romney has no love of service to other people, but only to himself. It seems he wants to rule for the sake of “ruling” not to be of service

Obama has a a clue. he knows vets need support. He knows they need jobs. He knows they may need social – pschiatric services. Many do develop problems with drugs (legal and illegal) and alcohol, and drift off in a downward spiral of social isolation, joblessness, and depression which ends in suicide. Damn it.

Many Vets look back on “basic training” boot camp with mixed feelings. It was tought- but thee was “The Great American Melting Pot” in action. Marched in, told how to march, all exterior differences of clothes- gone. No expensive “designer sutff”- just “uniform”. And then- no more hair… and then no more name- just a designation – Private, and a serial number. it is where we learnt to take care of the other guy- because he might be the person in the battlefield to save our lives.

Actually, when I look at “Chickenhawk” Romney´s ill advised advised advocacy of more “military force”.. I think to myself fine: He should then be consequential enough to say “re-instate the draft” and then let at least three of his sons go through basic training – like the rest of us.

When I hear about “chickenhawks” like Romney advocating armed conflict with Iran, and those advocating renewed military presence in Iraq, not drawing down I.S.A.F. forces in Afghanistan, and possibly even getting militarilly involved in Syria (to favour Israel again) I have to wonder and scratch my head. Look at the globe. Go from the Mediterannean coastline of Syria, through Iraq, then Iran, and then all the way to the Afghan- Chinese border. That is an awfully big landmass, almost 4 5ths the size of the empire conquered by Alexander the Great-

When I hear Repugnican “stink tank” strategists and nutcases like “Chickenhawk” Romney talking, i have to scratch my head- “And with what f-wording Army do you intend to permanently occupy that landmass?”

Really, Romney is out of touch with “them” the 47%. .. the workers of america, the labourers, the military, the Vets. etcetera. All he wants is to be “the big boss”- but is as clueless as one can get.

There is an old rule in the military that every officer and n.c.o. knows – “The men eat first”. That includes the vets. My goodness. when I served, there was a consensus among employers that vets got preferential treatment in employment.

Still, the “biggest psychological stress” factor of military service has to do with the nature of “the business”. No matter how you cut the mustard, it is all about being actively prepared for using offensive and defensive force. That has not changed over the millenia. It is all about cutting off and killing, and being cut off and killed. War is not an N.F.L. football game.

And when that contagion breaks out, it leaves behind military and civilian dead, wounded cripples, and severely traumatized people. That is the way it always has been, and always will be. You cannot change the nature of that. You can have all the sophisticated drones you want. You can have the remote controlled – tracked reconnaisance and combat robots – currently seeing action in I.S.A.F., But in the end, it comes down to people doing the killing and being killed.

Our “citizen wariors” have it tough. Romney so missed the point. “Why is it that more Vietnam veterans comitted suicide than soldiers were killed in action during that conflict?” “Why is it that more veterans of Iraq I committed suicide than soldiers were killed in action during that conflict?” ” Why is it that more vets from Iraq II committed suicide than there were soldiers were killed in action during that conflict?” The same questions hold true of the I.S.A.F. mission. There are complex social-psychologicasl reasons, that cannot be dismissed by “oh its because we´re cutting the purchasing of expensive, cost overrun weapons systems? as the idiot just suggested.

As a vet, I found Romney´s comments to be extremely disconcerting and dissonant with what I understood the role of the American “citizen soldier” to be.
His record at Bain Capital establishes that he is unfit to be the CEO of corporate America, because he doesn´t care about U.S. workers as he himself admitted.. And his adroit service avolidance during Vietnam only establishes that he is totally unit to be the Commander in Chief because he has no idea about the nature of war and what it demands of our “citizen soldiers”.-

His speech about not caring for the 47% was so telling. That also includes our physically and mentally wounded vets. The question is this. Does ‘America carry its wounded?”
Romney is evasive as usual on this as well.

This election is also about that: “Does America carry its wounded?” My absentee ballot has already been marked for the team that cares – Obama – Biden 2012.

I have never seen or heard anything so sick. Romney insinuating that vets are committing suicide because Obama wants to trim the procurement fat off the military budgets.Blaming vet suicdes on Obama is cold calculating and calloused… and very sick. May God give Romney the life hereafter he deserves on the planet Kolub or wherever. My vet spirit won´t want anything to do with him there, either.