More of this, please

and less of “women will wake up to reality once Obama is the nominee,” a paraphrase of a comment I saw at TalkLeft and an attitude that has seemed endemic.

From Obama’s Memorial Day speech:

We’re going to have hundreds of thousands of new veterans coming in, many of them who suffer post-traumatic stress disorder. They are not being diagnosed quickly enough, they’re not getting the services that they need quickly enough.

And, sadly, the group of veterans that are probably being most neglected in this area are women veterans. We’ve got to do a better job of creating facilities…. specifically for women veterans.

And part of what we need is to recognize that oftentimes our women servicemembers are more prone to post-traumatic stress disorder partly because they — there’s a sad, but real, problem of sexual harassment and sexual abuse for women veterans, and that makes them much more prone, then, to have post-traumatic stress disorder.

Maybe a a bit patronizing. Obviously pandering, but I’m ready to be pandered to, big time.

He also made a quick promise to stop protests at military funerals, a thing that needs to be done.

Now how about some promises to protect Social Security and work hard for universal health care??

You can watch the speech at YouTube here.

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