Last year I saw a few “Veterans for Obama” bumper stickers around town. They made about as much sense to me as “ACORN for McCain” stickers, which I’m pretty sure don’t exist, or “Tax-Avoiders for the GOP,” or possibly, “Republicans for Larger Government.”

No, I never could understand how someone who has worn this country’s uniform could support someone who voted against supporting those who wear this country’s uniform. Nor could I fathom how a fellow vet could give the time of day, let alone his or her precious vote, to someone whose party leaders announced their defeat at the very time they were engaging the enemy.

Today I learn that President Obama is proposing that our wounded vets be outsourced for medical care and then billed for that care, instead of treating them at our military or VA hospitals, as historically promised. In doing so, President Obama is looking at our vets as a resource to find $540 million so he can turn around and bailout some other failed private company.

He is dishonoring those who have already sacrificed for their country. Then he feigns disgust with the AIG execs for using bailout money for their bonuses after he voted to give them bailout money with no-strings attached. The audacity of it all. How about a bumper sticker which reads, “Buyer’s Remorse?”

Clay Miller

Oak Harbor