ABC news sent a reporter deep into the danger zones of Iraq to find out who American Soldiers are going to vote for for President. The reporter came away with some shocking sentiments from the Soldiers. For instance, she found out that Soldiers think about home and would like to be at home!!!! SHOCKING!!!!

“We think about how our families are doing back home. That’s a major concern, like how the economy is doing, also as well as where we’re going to be in the future. Because really, truly, what we consider we’re doing, we’re doing a valuable job, we want to make sure that the efforts we make are appreciated.”

The reporter also found out that the Troops are too engaged in what is going on there to keep up with politics back home. Lord. Have. Mercy! In a war zone they aren’t tuning in to CNN every night to see what the latest gossip is or how far they are going to have to go to willingly suspend disbelief in order to vote for someone this fall. Tsk. Tsk.

I don’t know what the Soldiers are so busy doing over there that they can’t chill out in the evening and tune in to ABC for the nightly Obama love fest!!! They didn’t have to work nearly as hard as this particular reporter had to work. She searched until she found three Soldiers who she could contort quotes from that could be construed to mean that they are going to vote for Barack Obama for President!

Now they can report that the military backs Obama for President!

Well done little ABC reporter! Well done! You know that had to be a difficult task, but she accomplished it. I hope she gets a big bonus for her efforts or a raise or a promotion. Its well deserved.

Tune in to ABC for more of The Love of Obama!

c/p: Blue Star Chronicles

There’s a big hullabaloo today about Governor Bill Richardson’s endorsement of Barack Obama. The endorsement was hailed as an important endorsement. It is thought that it will bring Hispanics to feast at Obama’s political table and he will deliver New Mexico into the Obama camp. Everyone is just ecstatic about it. Best of all, the Obama people are hoping, hoping, hoping that this makes people forget that he has aligned himself with hate-filled, racists, anti-American bigots for pretty much all of his adult life. They are hoping it’ll turn that page.

I’m sure the Clinton’s have to be steaming over this endorsement. After all, they made Richardson’s career. He didn’t have a political career before the Clintons decided that he would be the token Hispanic in their Rainbow Coalition. Its been straight uphill from there for him. He now is presented as the only Hispanic governor in the country. Apparently, he forgot who buttered his bread. Never mind, its only business.

Another thing he hopes the country has forgotten is what occurred under his watch at the Clinton Administration’s Energy Secretary.

There is more bad news for besieged Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, already scrambling to deal with horrendous security lapses at the nation’s top nuclear-weapons lab and soaring gasoline prices that have American motorists up in arms. Now two government reports obtained by Insight detailing other security problems within the department have intensified calls for the secretary’s head and doubts about whether the security overhaul he promised in the wake of the Wen Ho Lee case in any way has reversed long-standing laxity in the way the nation’s most sensitive nuclear facilities are being run.

According to one report, officials in the Department of Energy, or DOE, and at New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory — where two computer hard drives containing top-secret bomb designs recently went missing under suspicious circumstances — altered reports and pressured members of an internal-security assessment task force to soft-pedal shortcomings identified in annual reviews of the lab’s nuclear safeguards.

A second report, also from DOE’s inspector general, or IG, raises the possibility that sensitive information from the department’s Savannah River complex in South Carolina, not properly erased from computer systems that were sold as surplus, may have gone to the People’s Republic of China, or PRC.

That’s that messy little business of Richardson letting nuclear bomb secrets somehow mysteriously disappear in the hands of the Chinese back in Y2000. It happened twice in 2000 and involved Wen Ho Lee, a Chinese national who took classified information out of the labs at Los Alamos. The media and Congress were calling for Richardson’s head and decrying his lackadaisical style of management, carelessness and incompetency for extremely serious breaches of national security. The problem is, that was in 2000. It happened before most Americans had an idea of just how serious breaches in national security would soon become.

That scandal got forgotten in the aftermath of 9/11 as did many of the other national security breaches and/or mismanagement issues connected to the Clinton administration and their proxies.

So now this man who so badly mismanaged national security in the years just prior to 9/11 is endorsing Barack Obama for President. That doesn’t make me feel a bit safer and it doesn’t make me forget the glimpse into Obama’s character that we’ve been treated to over the past couple of weeks. I don’t think I’d be looking quite so smug if I were Obama.

Wouldn’t it be great if we really could have everything the democrats are promising us in their campaigns? Free college tuition for everyone. Free health care for everyone. Tax Cuts! Help with your mortgage. They might even come out and mow your lawn for you!

The list of promises from both democratic candidates is very long. The National Taxpayers Union has a very rough estimate of $287 billion for Obama’s promises and $218 billion for Clinton’s promises. Even at those staggering costs, neither candidate have much to say about how they will fund this utopia they promise. They say something about repealing Bush’s tax cuts (note that to them this isn’t the same thing as raising taxes because they are simultaneously promising tax cuts) and they say that ending the war in Iraq will help pay for it. As USA Today these vague statements about how to pay for billions of dollars of new and improved social services just isn’t going to cut it.

A rollback of Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans could generate perhaps $75 billion next year. The Iraq war savings are much harder to figure. The war has been costing about $100 billion per year. But a Democratic president, once in office, might decide that national security demands a gradual withdrawal, or a redeployment to Afghanistan. Health care for Iraq war veterans will run into the billions for decades. It’s unlikely that winding down the war will produce a large, quick peace dividend capable of supporting a host of new programs.

To make matters worse, any tax increases and military reductions might be needed just to cover the government’s existing shortfalls caused principally by rising health care costs and the pending baby boomer retirement.

The two democratic candidates don’t seem too concerned about benefiting in the short run from enticing votes by promising almost limitless gifts from the government to everyone. The thing is, I’m worried about the long run and I’m not the only one.

With the exception of the limp wristed sushi and latte learjet liberal set, most tax payers look at the promises made by these two with a suspicious eye. Most of us see our paychecks flying out the window in upwards of 50% taxes on our incomes and everything we buy. People start losing their incentive to work when their income is taken to pay for everything for people who don’t work. Most people in our society feel responsible for and don’t mind paying for people who can’t take care of themselves. Most people mind very much paying for people who can and just don’t or won’t pay for themselves. When the money is redistributed people start to give up hope knowing they can never get ahead of what is allotted them by a government out of control.

Its not that this form of government is something new that Clinton and Obama thought up. Its been tried before. I really don’t know why Clinton and Obama are so far behind the curb because it was tried a generation ago by other governments. Russia, Cuba, Venezuela have all tried socialism and/or communism. Its bankrupted and corrupted every society it has been tried in. We’d have to suspend disbelief to think it’d be any different here than it has been in every other government that has tried it.