they are givers in the ultimate sense of the word. joy, the whole thing. people should look it up on youtube. it is the most powerful speech, i heard it today. it s rifting. when i heard this last night, i thought to myself this is devastating for mitt romney. these two gentlemen are of the same age and you understand that the most seminal decision that had to be made by young men was whether to answer that call or whether to try to find a way to get out of the draft. and for those who supported the war but still didn t serve, that reminder is devastating for mitt romney among veterans. he didn t mention veterans nor did he mention our current fighting men and women in afghanistan in his acceptance speech in tampa which is a huge error which is doubly and triply amplified. if i were the democrats i would. the barack obama from the administration has been focusing on veterans. sure.
but still didn t serve, that reminder i think is devastating for mitt romney among veterans. he didn t mention veterans in his acceptance speech in tampa which is was a huge error. devastating i think for mitt romney. if i were the democrats i d run jim webb every night. the democrats and the barack obama administration from the beginning has been focusing on veterans. michelle obama she s always with the families. this is a theme that runs through the administration. it s paying off now in many states. and romney did them the favor of not mentioning of not mentioning. in senate races it will be big. that s a constituency surprisingly in favor of this president which in the past has not been the case with democratic presidents. this rings with that great movie by oliver stone, they cheer when you go off to battle, when you come back wounded you re not really one of them anymore. it s terrible. it s been smart and humane of the obamas to focus on it.
i watched it today. it s riveting. when i heard this last night i thought to myself, this is devastating for mitt romney. i mean, these two gentlemen are of the same age. you understand, chris, the most seminal decision that had to be made by young men of the vietnam era was whether to answer that call or whether to try to find a way to get out of the draft, and for those who supported the war but still didn t serve, that reminder i think is devastating for mitt romney among veterans. he didn t mention veterans in his acceptance speech in tampa which is was a huge error. devastating i think for mitt romney. if i were the democrats i d run jim webb every night. the democrats and the barack obama administration from the beginning has been focusing on veterans. michelle obama she s always with the families. this is a theme that runs through the administration. it s paying off now in many states. and romney did them the favor of not mentioning of not mentioning. in senate
coming of age during world war ii era didn t serve. mitt romney was coming of age right at the height of the vietnam war. i mean, you saw john kerry and george bush go through their respective decisions in the 2004 election. and now, i remember four years ago i was with mitt romney in bettendorf, iowa, and he got a lot of criticism. there was a woman that stood up at a public forum and asked him why none of his five sons had served. he said they were serving the country by helping with his campaign. that caused flap and he had to step back and said he didn t mean to equate campaign work by military work in iraq and afghanistan. there was criticism of his family s record at that time, too. since his sons are maybe again-xers they would have been eligible for the gulf war. gallup poll found mitt romney
but, unfortunately, what we re seeing is that a lot of these young veterans have a higher unemployment rate than people who didn t serve and that makes no sense, so what we would like to do is potentially combine a tax credit for a company that hires veterans with a campaign to have private companies step up and do the right thing and hire more veterans, and one of the things we ve done is internally in the federal government, we have minimum wage a huge emphasis on ramping up our outreach to veterans and hiring of veterans, and this has been a top priority of mine. the notion that these folks who are sacrificing for our freedom and our security end up coming home and not being able to find a job i think is unacceptable. mr. president, this next question comes from someone else you may recognize, and what s interesting about this question, it was heavily retweeted and voted up our user base.