Left Presses Obama to Cut Defense

[TheSarge]

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who wrapped his party’s presidential nomination just this week, is already besieged by liberal constituencies demanding that he cut military spending to boost  social programs.

Two influential liberal groups have sent the presumptive Democratic nominee a letter pressing him to support cuts to defense programs to pay for universal preschool, relief for Americans facing foreclosure on their homes and expanded benefits for military veterans.

The demands carry weight because the groups, the Black Leadership Forum and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), represent two constituencies that are important to Obama’s political strategy: blacks and Hispanics.
Their calls for defense cuts have drawn the support of leading House liberals, many of whom gave Obama crucial support early in his contest against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).

The groups have also called on presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) to support the cuts. There is less pressure on McCain, however, because fellow Republicans have kept quiet on the issue. McCain also expects little support from black voters.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/left-presses-obama-to-cut-defense-2008-06-05.html

[Chris_]

obama-lama-ding-dong will promise whatever those racist organizations ask for, then forget they ever existed if he gets elected.  LULAC's primary goal is a completely open border with Mexico and complete amnesty for all illegal aliens now and in the future....plus they likely want Cinco de Mayo made a national holiday.   

[Chris_]

Of course they want defense cut.  We shouldn't do anything like actually provide for the common defense after all.  Tht might offend some Islamofascist  

[NHSparky]

Of course what they'll never tell you is that even WITH the supplemental budgets for Iraq and Afghanistan, DoD budgets are still near or at historic lows.  I wonder how happy they'd be knowing that during Vietnam, defense was 10 percent of GDP, during Korea it was 15 percent, and WWII, it was 43 percent, as opposed to barely 4 percent today?

[Bluesuiter-Retired]

Didn't we see Part ONE [Jimmie 'the peanut' Karter] and Part TWO [Billy 'blow job" Klintoon] of this movie already????? 

The defeatocrats are oh so IGNORANT about defense spending, especially the supplemental bills for fighting the war.  There are many defeatocrats who want to DEFUND the war.

They either don't know or don't give a $hit that the vast majority of the money in the supplemental bills go towards providing FOOD, AMMO, FUEL, BODY ARMOR -- you know the essentials for keeping the troops alive.