On the campaign trail this week, Barack Obama has been calling on Congress to pass a bill that would significantly expand tuition benefits for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And, at the same time, he has been criticizing John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president who is a Vietnam veteran, for refusing to support the legislation.
“He is one of the few senators of either party who oppose this bill because he thinks it’s too generous,” Senator Obama was quoted yesterday as saying in The Charleston Gazette. “I couldn’t disagree more.”
The legislation, which would cover up to the full cost of a four-year education at a public college, may be attached to a war-spending bill that lawmakers are expected to take up soon.
