[5711-Marine]

Originally Posted by Morel42

Not surprising considering the Military is historically Republican leaning.. Though I am wondering how informed they are about details.. A War zone isn't exactly conductive to researching on the net..

And FYI http://www.votesmart.org/issue_ratin....php?r_id=3483

Gives Obama a 80 raiting compared to McCain's 20 in Disabled Veterans affairs..

I am a life member of the DAV, VFW and Marine Corps League. As someone with a service connected disability, I can assure you from my perspective that there are two very important sentence on the page you linked to, and I have boded it below.

Disabled American Veterans


Year: 2006
Issue: Veterans Issues
Website: http://www.dav.org
Email:
Address:
807 Maine Avenue, Southwest
Washington, DC 20024
"Formed in 1920 and chartered by Congress in 1932, the million-member DAV is the official voice of America's service-connected disabled veterans -- a strong, insistent voice that represents all of America's 2.1 million disabled veterans, their families and survivors.

The votes listed under the Key Votes section of the DAV web site are recorded roll call votes. They are related to important issues, such as:

* Budget
* Appropriations
* Amendments to increase funding
* Emergency supplemental funding for VA

In most cases, with recorded votes, we have notified members of Congress of what our position is, how we wanted them to vote, and why.

It is possible that elected officials supported other veteran-related issues that have not been recorded on our site. Our site is not a comprehensive voting record.

DAV is a non-partisan organization. It is not our intent to be political or to endorse or oppose any candidate for public office by posting these votes; simply to report the facts show they voted on issues important to us and our members, and that, in most cases, we have made our interest known."