[fenian]

First I am PROUD military veteran and btw a PROUD liberal. I am also white, male, 49 and a Proud voter of our next President. McCain if he was NOT the grandson and son of Admirals would have not a long career in the Naval Air Service bottom of the academy, near bottom of flight school and how many crashes prior to his final claim of glory "getting shot down"!....... Then what little respect I may have had for mim went away these last many months as he sold his soul to the far right flag draped holding a bible nut jobs.

But the one item that slipped by many in the "mainstream" media was a 2 hour event on C-Span showing a panel of Gold Star Mothers, retirees officer and senior enlisted along with other military family groups as our new first lady went to various military bases. opend the doors to local auditoriums and invited spouse and children in and then with little "politics" stated she and her husband feel that they are the true backbone of the foward service member is their family and then she say down and listened as they told their stories of bad housing, moves, lost household goods, difficulties in finding work, health care off post for disabled children, support, pay issues as the spouse is deployed.

Never have I seen a politician do that with a serious view they always want that "flight suit moment" but he was a person listening about daily concerns that do affect the deployed member. As a now civilian DoD employee let me tell you the phone lines were burning throughout MEDCOM as talk became action.

If he continues with that concern as mich for the service people he does have concern for as with the country then may he have another four more years.