Recently, Mitt Romney appeared before the Veterans of Foreign Wars to supposedly lay out his vision on U.S. foreign policy. But, instead of laying out a plan to make America more secure, and support our veterans, Romney distorted President Obama’s record on veterans and military affairs.
President Obama responsibly ended the war in Iraq and is beginning to bring our troops home from Afghanistan. Because of his leadership, al-Qaeda is weaker than at any point since 9/11. More al-Qaeda terrorists have been killed or captured than at any point since those attacks.
Yet, Mitt Romney accuses the President of engaging in “appeasement” with our enemies. Perhaps Romney should ask Osama Bin Laden if he feels the same way.
On veterans’ issues, the Presidents record is unparalleled. The President passed two tax credits that encourage businesses to hire unemployed and disabled veterans, made great investments in the VA and is helping more and more veterans go to college for free by improving the Post-9/11 GI Bill – just to name a few.
Compare this to Mitt Romney who as Governor cut veterans’ programs by hundreds of thousands of dollars just his first month, and calls the Congressional Republican budget “marvelous” even though it would slash veterans’ benefits by $11 billion.
President Obama is the best fit to continue serving our needs as veterans and proud members of military families – he deserves four more years.
Rebecca Ratliff
Portsmouth, Ohio







DID NOT MAKE A LIST, SOMEONE OUGHT AND WE WILL SEE WHO THEY ARE PROTECTING WHILE TRAMPLING ON THE 1ST. AMENDMENT, THE FOUNDATION OF OUR CONSTITUTION, OH, BUT WE ARE IN SCIOTO COUNTY WITH SOLICITOR KUHN, ET AL. AND THE STATE OF OHIO FALLS BACK ON THAT WE ARE A HOME RULE STATE,
DAH...........
3RD. WORLD TERRITORY...............USDA, PDT'S, SOGP, GAMPP-GATE, NOW THE STAKER'S HOLSINGER-GATE, AND PILING UP. THERE'S PROBABLY A LIST THAT HAS NOT SURFACED AS YET???
want to blame someone for unemployment, COL, the national debt and low moral, blame the ones who caused it: Mr. Bush Jr. and his cronies who let the mortgage investers sell worthless mortgages and then bet on them to fail, so they could make more money. Read the facts, not hearsay.
All they do is bash our sitting President in Adhominemism when their only policy is more money for the 1%, The Neo-Fat Cats. And smaller government cutting out the poor, elderly and infirmed. Their Health Policy is die early and quickly. And they are the Religious Right,
Riiight...................
They have no policy nor facts they make up lies like the 8% unemployment that they claim the Sitting President said he would get us under but that statement was by another and cause the GOP got nothing, they pin that on our Sitting President and all other ills in this country for decades, etc.
They don't know that the '08 Election is over and they lost, and they are still fighting it. Get over it you lost.
Just wait, when the proper research and transparency is completed, Romney will become The New Nixon and Nixon will look like a Monastery Monk compared to Romney. Watch......
No Tax returns, all the records from the Utah Olympics were destoyed, that much more than the Rosemary Woods 18 minute gap. Duh.......
Spew on, Spew on those without substance and got this Country in the fix it's it and blame it on the Sitting President..........