Moral issue

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Those words struck out at me from Edwards last night on Countdown.

It's been a long time since I heard a candidate say that something was a moral issue. (YEAH something besides sex)

EDWARDS: What he seems to be suggesting, what Bill O‘Reilly seems to be suggesting is it‘s better if we just turn our heads. We‘ve got have at least 200,000 men and women who wore a uniform and who don‘t have a place to sleep at night. They were sleeping in shelters or under bridges. And I‘m supposed to say that‘s OK? Of course, it‘s not OK. There‘s a great deal that America can do. We can fund the veteran‘s administration in the way that we should be doing. We can give every one of our veterans the kind of evaluation for mental and physical health needs that they deserve. We can make sure that they get the health care that they deserve. It is true that some of these homeless veterans do have mental health problems. There‘s no doubt about that. But they need to get the mental health care that they need. And the easiest thing that we can do and it‘s what we‘ve been doing way too often is we just can turn our heads and pretend it‘s not there.

You know, I understand it may not be some big vote-getting issue and it may not be what a politicians want to focus on, but it‘s a huge moral issue facing the country. We can‘t let this continue.

And whatever O‘Reilly says, you know, he just keeps explaining away and explaining away. The reality is: It‘s not about him and it‘s about me. This is about hundreds of thousands of people who patriotically served this country who deserve a real chance.

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