Vice president's son says a blue Virginia would block a Romney presidency.
Virginia's veterans are being called to a different battleground in November — the ballot box. Rallying the troops on Thursday was Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, an Iraq veteran and son of Vice President Joe Biden, who declared, "If we win in Virginia, there really is no path to victory for Mitt Romney." Beau Biden headlined a Veterans for Obama event in Arlington a little more than two hours before Romney formally accepted the GOP presidential nomination in Tampa. Veterans account for more than 10 percent of the state's population, and both parties are working hard to curry favor with America's servicemen and servicewomen. Biden accused Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, of violating a "sacred obligation" to take care of this …
Vice president's son will keynote Veterans for Obama event Thursday.
Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden and Delaware's attorney general, will be the keynote speaker at a Veterans for Obama rally this week in Arlington. Beau Biden, a major in the Delaware Army National Guard who spent a year deployed in Iraq, helped launch the Veterans for Obama group earlier this year in Norfolk. With Virginia being a top battleground state in this year's presidential election, both parties are courting the state's veterans. They number about 822,300, which accounts for more than 10 percent of the state's population, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Biden will be joined by other high-ranking veterans at the Arlington rally, which starts at 7 p.m. Thursday at the National Rural Electric …
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Susan Weston
1:19 pm on Thursday, September 6, 2012
Tell the world Beau! You've been there and know! Thanks for your service to our great country! Sorry for those who seem to feel the only good soldier is a republican soldier, but sadly their ideology is such that they cannot see beyond their own thoughts. Thank heaven for the people who reach out to all our troops, thanking them for all they do, regardless of their political affiliation! more ›