Even more so than during the Presidential Election of 2004, I see a very disturbing trend coming to full blossom in the 2008 election.Damn the policy issue differences between McCain and Obama…
Screw the differences in the direction that each wants to take…
To Hell with the positives and negatives of each candidate…
What is becoming a major issue in various ways is, “Who do the soldiers, sailors, and Marines want elected as their Commander-in-Chief?”
I have a four word response to that question: “I Don’t Fucking Care!!”
Allow me a moment of
Much like I don’t consider my vote worth more than his or hers.
The McCain camp has made a big to do about Obama “dissin” the injured military personnel during his stop in Germany.
Yeah, it was a bad political decision by Obama.
Of course, McCain conveniently omits that Obama spent plenty of time with soldiers while in Afghanistan and during the Middle East leg of his trip.
The political imagery faux pas is not my point…
My point is that people in the military have become electoral tools of visceral reaction as far as the political process.
For God sakes, Bill Cunningham, a talk show host on 700 WLW has stated that soldiers are almost in unanimous support of McCain, as if that should decide my vote.
He has, in the past, even said that the vote of military personnel should count as two votes.
Sure he may be kidding (or more likely trying to ease his guilt and cowardice over being deferred from service during Vietnam due to a “bad knee”) but by God, his slope headed listeners eat it up.
Under Cunningham’s system, if Julius Caesar were running for President of the United States, he’d be a shoo-in!!
I have already seen spokesmen and ads from Veterans’ 527 groups on both sides extolling the reasons as to why their candidate is the best choice.
As for me, save your breath boys…I don’t care about what you say in your 30 second sound bites, here’s what I care about and as a member of the military so should you…
Stop pontificating on who missed out on a nice photo-op with injured, bed ridden men and women who stepped up to serve their country proudly and bravely.
And don’t tell me how much more one candidate respects your service more than the other.
Instead, focus on who may repair the neglect of those of you who serve as far as pay, health and death benefits, mental and physical rehab, and a decent quality of life.
You guys deserve more than a photo-op…
You deserve to be able to take care of your families and yourselves comfortably.
And, if you return home with injuries, you deserve to be healed inside and out.
Much like any other group, I myself would, if I could, do anything to insure that…
Well, anything short of having my vote be worth less than yours.
Cheers!!
