Thanku Euryleia i dont think i have ever seen my man blush like that before,my owner says he got Mcains rank wrong quite by acident and wasnt able to edit the post before he realized his mistake, he is sitting here beside me now shaking his head, he says he doesnt know why he mixed him up with the pacflt commander, multitasking is a bitch ,, it is indeed 06 captian, is only one step away from "flag rank"which is still a very respectable rank and full of senior responsibility

the following is not directed at any one here so dont be offended please, we are just trying to explain some of our positions and reasons for our own personel views and dont wish to upset our fellow members here

leadership in the military is more than congruent to management and administration of people which is more than just executive experience its also legislative and judical all in one, Mccain has indeed held resonsibility for his fellow americans very lives

anyone thats been an officer or nco in charge of men in the united states military knows this, and of course we expect his opponents to downplay this vital fact and attempt to reduce his experience level to that of only being a POW, unlike bush juinor and obama ,Mccain has walked the walk

despite all of the ussually mudslinging ,it doesnt change the fact that McCain served his country with distinction and was willing to put his very life on the line to do it, where as his opponent has not

a note on political flipfloppery: ALL Politicians flip flop especially as they transition from apealing to thier base in the primary to apealing to the center in the main campagin, thier are no exceptions to this, thier positions on issues change to apeal to the most voters,,

we are just saying if people look at the actual facts McCain has flip flopped less in his overall message and obama has changed messages as often as he changed countires on his so called world tour

if any one bothered to listen to both sides of the media, (conservative and or liberal and independent scources not just thier favorite channel or paper) they will recall the republican conservatives hard core right as labeling Mccain as too liberal, to willing to cooperate with the democrats on issues like imagration, abortion etc, in fact thier was a hudge debate and most conservative pundents were dead set against electing him, (yet we the people have defied them and chose him instead ...there is a silent war being waged in the GOP for the future of our party and our country) heck he has Lieberman at his side all the time a former democratic cantidate for high office, and his choice of Palin, who herself is an opposition leader in the party only confirms that He is aiming at changing the republicans away from the former administrations bi partisan direction

to presume that choice to alter some of his views as being soley for the sake of vote is pure sophistry in lite of his struggle against bipartisan politics in his own party

America has been bruising for a change in normal party politics for decades, since ross perot and the formation of the reform party to today, i simply dont see obama as rising above the tide and reforming anything, he lacks the clout the auctoritas and dignatis to keep his party in line and biden isnt going to help him do it so much as act as his nanny and keep him well behaved, his efforts to climb americas cursus honorum alltough laudable are not going to actually yield any real fruit, his message calling for change (without making clear his actual positions on the issues) is a classic example of political wool pulling, he has the nessesary skills of a good prepared public speaker (so far lacks impromtu debateing clout) and his demogougary has its appeal but little to back it up if anything his efforts will not go any further than tiberius grachccus's did in rome and biden will end up succeeding him as Tribune of the plebs, Hillary however did have the backing but her naked ambition clouded her public apeal too much


i belive obama is an idealist but not a realist, he simply wont be able to get the job done he isnt strong enough to break through and be acepted by the people that actually run the country (the american aristocracy that has existed mostly silently and dominated our politics since before our countires formation as a soviergn nation) will never allow him to lead so much as follow, where as we beileve McCain is walking both tracks of the plebian and patrician roads to power in america

this doesnt mean a leader doesnt surface in opposition to the elite and sometimes wins, its just that they very rarely establish a lasting change to the political infrastructure with out also embracing the patricians wishes at the same time

and my use of roman terminology and honorifics to describe this struggle is no acident, the study of history can give us unique insights into our own society as our founding fathers did design our government to function more like the roman republic than a true democracy

hindsight is afterall 20/20