By Lorin Walker

Posted on milspousepress.com 

Yesterday (15 April) speaking before an audience of veterans, Senator Barack Obama condemned the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) for denying wounded service members access to voter registration assistance.  He gets it.  The DVA does not.

Denying those who have served, fought and sacrificed the opportunity to register to vote is not only undemocratic and unconstitutional, it is obscene.

The DVA should not only honor that right, they should promote it.  Instead, the DVA has banned voter registration on DVA premises. Shame on them.  Voter registration is legal on public property, period. Recovering service members deserve every opportunity to cast a vote.

This is more of the same from an administration that thinks it makes the rules, despite the law or history, despite justice or simply what is right. The Administration and its lackeys feign concern that voter registration drives will be partisan. First, voter registration is not partisan, it is American, second, their true concern is that if they allow service members and vets to register that they may vote in opposition to the status quo.

Let's bring some honor back to the nation, starting now. Let our service members have their Constitutional say; let them register, let them vote. Let the chips fall where they may. For once in the last 7 years, do what is right, instead of what is self-serving.