Former lawmaker stumps for Obama

Former lawmaker stumps for Obama
By Susan Redden
sredden@joplinglobe.com

The endorsement of Barack Obama by former Secretary of State Colin Powell should help convince voters who are still undecided leading up the Nov. 4 presidential election, former U.S. Rep. Tim Roemer said Monday during a stop in Joplin.

Roemer was a congressman from Indiana from 1991 to 2003 and is president of the Center for National Policy, a nonprofit institute dedicated to improving public policy outcomes. He said he has campaigned for Obama throughout the Midwest, and is spending this week meeting with veterans and visiting veterans’ halls to talk about Obama’s stance on veterans’ issues.

He said Obama, after he was elected to the Senate, asked to be placed on the Committee on Veterans Affairs, “because he wants to make sure that veterans get the help they need in health care, education and housing.”

“He sees it as a sacred trust because of the sacrifices veterans make for our country,” Roemer said. “He’s fought for the funding increases and changes in the bureaucracy to make sure they get what they deserve.”

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This is one of the biggest points that keeps getting missed. Obama could have gone onto any committee he wanted after his speech in 2004, but his heart was tugged by veterans. Maybe he felt he owed it to the members of his own family who were in the military as much as to all veterans. They matter to him and he's proven it. McCain, well, his votes proved that while he loves to claim them as his own, he has not served them.