The Red and Black

Oh, you are SO wrong on SO many points. "Ouch. At least my candidate comes to play." Do you have any idea of how many "Present" votes Obama Hussein Barak has made both in the Illinois legislature AND in congress? I think not or you wouldn't have made that statement. That says volumes: either he doesn't bother to read and understand the legislation or he just can't make a decision, both of which would be disastrous if he became president.
"Maybe it's because visits to Iraq have nothing to do with one's interpretation of the facts on the ground." Wow, you are batting 1.000 in "wrong" here - that has EVERYTHING To do with one's interpretation of the facts on the ground. If you've heard the majority of those who have returned after fighting in Iraq you will know that the liberal news media continues to paint a negative picture when in fact many positives have been accomplished and are still being accomplished, positives which you will not hear on CNN or any of the other liberal news media. Again, on "ignorance" you're wrong. Barak Hussein Obama has no experience in ANYTHING concerned with running ANYTHING - if you were going on an airplane trip and I wanted to be the pilot, would you get on the plane knowing that I had NEVER flown an airplane before? And what about the taxes that Obama has already promised? What about his party's continued denial of drilling for oil that we KNOW is under several of our midwestern states? The frightening thing about this election is that uninformed people who know relatively little about history and the consequences of trying to deal with madmen are going to vote. Change for change sake isn't a worthy reason to cast a vote for anyone. If you really want to know the truth about Iraq, the war, and Saddam Hussein, if you REALLY want to know, read "Saddam's Secrets" by General Georges Sada, a twenty year veteran of the Iraqi air force under Saddam Hussein. Find out from the inside what really happened before and during the beginning the war, the WMDs, the whole thing including mistakes that the US made. It will open your eyes if you read with understanding. Hopefully NOBODY wants war - but if you know anything about history you will know that our country wouldn't even be here if brave men and women had not gone to war to preserve what our founding fathers created. Now, within one election that could all be over if the wrong person is elected president.
"I'll take the candidate who had the judgment to stand up against this war, especially when it was viewed as political suicide to do so." Wow, there are so many who will swallow anything including the kool aid. "Judgment" to stand up against the war? How many attacks on our country from terrorists have happened since 9/11/2001? I'll refresh your memory - 0! Whether or not invading Iraq and ridding the world of a madman was right will be debated for years to come, but you can't argue with the result for us to this point. In times past young men like you, Mr. Lee, have served their country with more than words. What have you done for your country? Electing Barak Hussein Obama would not be for the best fortune of this country on so many levels.

"Finally, nice jab on the military experience. I wasn't aware that military service was a prerequisite for the Presidency. Someone should have told George W. Bush." Again, a bit of wrong on your part? Have you not even seen the picture of George W. Bush in his military uniform? Do you not KNOW that the various branches of service, including national guard, are being used in the war as I write this? I can look at your face and see that you are exactly the right age that the military needs, but have you served or are you serving now? You are correct in stating that military service is not a prerequisite for being president. It is my opinion that it SHOULD be but my opinion doesn't make a law on its own. How can anyone who has never had any experience within an organization possibly understand how to be its commander in chief? I can point to the invasion of Haiti as one of the great military accomplishments of our former president during the Clinton-Lewinsky administration.
I note that you didn't broach the subject of our dependence on foreign oil and Obama's continued stance against seeking out our own resources. Blaming the crisis on auto manufacturers, expecting to turn corn or any other commodity into ethanol, none of that will alleviate the current crunch. As a matter of fact, well before you were even a gleam in your father's eye, congress had the opportunity to do something about this crisis, dating back to 1973. Lobbyists have convinced congress to keep us bound to the wishes of the nations who now supply most of our oil and Obama and his cohorts are planning to continue that course. If you're going to write such a dissertation, please study a while, get ALL the facts you can, and then write with understanding as a whole.
One more thing: age does not automatically bring understanding and experience but in the case of John McCain his experiences in the world, as a POW, in the congress have brought experience that it will take Barak Hussein Obama many more years to learn. McCain isn't the perfect candidate - you attempt to paint him as having no conservative or liberal bent is exactly what MANY people in this country want, someone who can look at BOTH sides of an issue, although personally I would prefer the more conservative candidate. IT has been said that no candidate should gain votes along racial or sexist lines - guess what? It's happening without regard to experience, the lack thereof, the inability to make a decision regarding racism and hate preached by your pastor for twenty years, the assosication with someone who bombed federal buildings and was sorry he didn't do a better job, or a man who was just convicted of other charges who had poured much money into the Obama campaign (Tony Resco, does the name ring a bell or sometimes spelled Rezko?); Obama said he was giving back the money but should it have been accepted in the first place? Well time to end this, but I could not let all these things go unchallenged. It is MY country too and I do not wish to put it into the hands of an inexperienced man who has avoided voting on so many issues, who only got into the Illinois legislature because of the failings of another man (yes, that other man was/is a Republican), and now has been in congress less than one term and has missed most of that term because he was campaigning for the presidency. If an individual in the private sector missed that much work he would be gone - in fact he would be gone before he got to that number of absences. But dream on - I hope your dream doesn't become a nightmare for the United States and the world.

CoastalDawg did a beautiful job addressing this article - as a future officer of the Army, I'm ashamed that anyone would claim that service in the National Guard does not count as military experience. These people are so poorly aware of what military service is and means, which is also evident in the disparity of stories I hear from soldiers returning from deployment and from the media.
Obama does not stand for anything, and that scares me. A man who willingly sat through church sermons for twenty years led by a man who preached anti-American and racist dribble is not the kind of man I want leading me, no matter how much I agree or disagree with his political platform. The fact that he did not ethically stand up and walk out (which is exactly what I will ever do if a preacher says that in front of me - I am a firm believer in separation of church and state, and also, if you don't like my country, you can get the hell out [it's one of the great things about being an American - you can go anywhere]) reveals a significant lack of inner character that I demand of my leader. Of course, not every president has had the kind of moral character that I demand (like one particular smooth-talking, womanizing, perjuring president of the 90s), but just because they all don't doesn't mean that I don't have a right to desire it and vote for it. When I am sent overseas, I want a leader in whom I can place my trust and confidence. Even though I fear Obama may win the election, I will support McCain until the end. Hopefully, he will run with Condoleezza Rice and give me a presidential administration that I can support.

"When civilized man can no longer stand the horror of war and refuses to fight, then he will surely be killed or enslaved by the uncivilized who can."

Found written on a chalkboard in a UGA classroom during the campus May Day demonstrations of 1970. Author Unknown.