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Originally Posted by Hatuey  I think some of these opinions are very interesting. I do not doubt that Obama will not get the military vote but it's interesting that the military isn't lining up behind McCain as I would have expected them to like with Bush. Seems to me like in sharp contrast with Bush McCain has yet to pimp out his military credentials. They don't need to be spoken for. So why the hesitation for so many to support McCain? |
I'm former military and McCain is not my candidate. He is so far removed from the the man in the street and the direction this nation needs to go he has accomplished alienating not only myself but nearly every person I have talked to with his saber rattling and warmongering posturing. Yes, he served this nation in the Navy. Yes, he was a POW. I respect his service. How could I not. That said I do not find the notion that military service makes anyone automatically qualified nor even capable of being CiC and PotUS.
A point I have not broached about McCain is I also am concerned about his mental well-being and just how six years of torture and isolated imprisonment affected his mental well-being. I'm sorry for what he suffered but there is not one person in the world who could come out of such an experience and not be traumatized, mentally, from such an existence and that potentiality worries me, deeply. If McCain is elected what can we expect from him? How will he handle the stresses, both mental and physical, from being CiC and PotUs? Will these stressors cause him to have lapses in judgment? It's an unknown I don't want to have to find out about.
Additionally I have two young sons (15 and 13) and I will cast my vote to make clear I will not have a warmonger like McSame in the highest office in this land who, by his own comments, has every intention of "asking" my children to serve because, as he has stated, there will be more wars. Albeit I will not forbid my boys from following in my footsteps and serving our nation in the military I will try to direct them to a service which should offer them some greater form of protection from direct combat danger, such as the USCG or the USAF, rather then their desire to serve in the US Army. I pray, if McCain is elected, they will listen to my advice and take it as given, out of my deep undying love for them and my fatherly concern for their well-being in a world that has gone mad.