the idelogically identifying post-9/11 veterans groups. there s also the big one, iava. the first and largest post 9/11 veterans group. they re totally nonpartisan, aggressively nonpartisan, and they are not just influential in politics. they re actively feared on capitol hill and more broadly in washington, d.c. i don t spend a lot of time in washington, but whenever i do, i m usually talking to people about national security stuff. you talk to people in washington about anything that touches iava s political turf and i swear you can take it from me, you can see people retract physically when they start talking about the politaul topi. it s better sometimes to be respected and feared than it is to be liked. particularly in washington. particularly when you have a long-term horizon on the stuff you re advocating for, and for the interest of iraq and afghanistan veterans, seeing that physical reaction on both sides of the aisle, i have to
the washington post has just revealed that romney s company were pioneers of shipping u.s. jobs overseas. investing in firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by american workers to new facilities in low wage countries line china and india. the obama campaign releasing that ad today, specific to virginia, where mitt romney was campaigning today in virginia. they also released another version of it specific to iowa where a lot of the fight played out today in iowa, and where that message was designed to dove tail with this barn burning speech by joe biden. give mitt romney credit. he s a job creator. in singapore. china, india. the overarching narrative of the presidential campaign, the overarching narrative, so encompassing both campaigns is no, the economy is not back from the depression yet. and mitt romney says he would do better in bringing the economy further back.
families to do that, you change politics. you create a powerful new political force in the process of doing that. a force with a heck of a lot more moral suasion, persuasive power on their side. this is a respected powerful interest group now that we didn t have before. they have a lot of pull. and so given that, how can it be that on the public policy issue most directly affecting those veterans as veterans, we have a total disaster on our hands? we ve got nearly 900,000 veterans with outstanding claims. nearly a million veterans waiting to hear. the v.a. starts counting the claims in a backlog once someone has been waiting four months just for an answer. there are hundreds of thousands of veterans in the back log. in places like oakland, california, in the san francisco bay area, people are waiting a year to even hear back about whether or not they are getting what they are owed by our country.
president obama has made the ohio economy. but the ohio unemployment rate is now below 6%, and the state s republican governor was telling the same crowd that mitt romney was talking to that ohio has made a lot of progress. in fact, when the governor of ohio was asked by a reporter if it bothered him if president obama got credit for this uptick in jobs in ohio and the improving economy there, the governor responded by saying, bother me? i hope he gets all of the credit. things are getting way better in terms of jobs in this important swing state of ohio. i hope president obama gets all of the credit for that. that s not the kind of thing that s supposed to come out of the mouth of a top romney surrogate at this point in the campaign. then last month in iowa, he was campaigning in iowa saying again how terrible barack obama has made the iowa economy. he even put out a four-minute long web ad showing how terrible things are in iowa because of
jobs overseas. investing in firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by american workers to new facilities in low wage countries line china and india. the obama campaign releasing that ad today, specific to virginia, where mitt romney was campaigning today in virginia. they also released another version of it specific to iowa where a lot of the fight played out today in iowa, and where that message was designed to dove tail with this barn burning speech by joe biden. give mitt romney credit. he s a job creator. in singapore. china, india. the overarching narrative of the presidential campaign, the overarching narrative, so encompassing both campaigns is no, the economy is not back from the depression yet. and mitt romney says he would do better in bringing the economy further back. president obama on the other hand says that right now, the