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.

A HD version of this video is available at the John McCain website.

Well, I don’t think she intended to, but that was the end result ….

ARLINGTON, VA – U.S. Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign today released the following statement by Communications Director Jill Hazelbaker in response to the assertion by Susan Rice, Senator Obama’s foreign policy advisor, that neither democratic candidate is ready for the 3:00 a.m. call:

“At a time when our country faces an unprecedented range of international challenges and opportunities, the American people want a president who is prepared to lead our country in a dangerous world. Senator Obama’s foreign policy adviser said today that neither Senator Clinton nor Senator Obama is ready to answer a 3:00 a.m. phone call during an international crisis. We agree wholeheartedly that neither Senator Clinton nor Senator Obama have the experience or judgment necessary to lead the United States in the struggle against violent Islamic extremists who seek our destruction, or to address the complex global environment that our next president will face. Only Senator McCain is ready to serve as commander in chief from day one.”

Don’t you hate when that happens!

h/t The Pirate’s Cove

Also at Patterico.

With the great news that John McCain is the official nominee of the Republican Party I thought it was appropriate to do a round-up of Blogs blogging about McCain.

We have just launched our blogroll so we are venturing out and included blogs that haven’t joined the blogroll yet. I know you are anxious to get on the blogroll so just check out the how to page and drop us a note. We’ll get you added asap. You can be a part of a growing and dynamic online presence in support of John McCain for President. Its not hard to do, trust me!

Meanwhile, here’s just a little of what’s being posted on pro-McCain blogs.

McCain Victory 2008 - McCain - A Win In November

Hot Air - Video: McCain clinches, takes it to the Democrats on Iraq

Pal2Pal - McCain’s Citizenship is Not in Doubt

The Median Sib - Barack Obama (or B.O.) His middle name isn’t what should concern voters

Blogs for John McCain - John McCain Calls Americans to Stand Up and Fight For America - Video 3/4/08

Born Again Redneck - Republican actresses (the guys will like this one!)

Right Wing Sparkle - Hillary takes a bit of revenge

The Pirate’s Cove - Obamessiah’s Wife Says America is Just Mean

McCain Blogette- “Sunday in Sedona” (See how the McCain family and friends spent his day off from his daughter’s point of view. Looks like fun!)

Armchair Everything - Now Its Official at Least for the GOP

Basil’s Blog - Hussein in the membrane

Politico - Chelsea and Meghan: A tale of two daughters

My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy - Another Reason to vote McCain over the democrat

My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy - McCain Officially Gets the Nomination! (yes, I know that’s two for MVRWC - but they are both good so deal with it! )

Chas’ Compilations - What does the term “Conservative Republican” mean anymore? Can we all get along? SOON?

The Pink Flamingo - THE AUDACITY OF CRAPOLA

Right Wing Nation - A Quandry

Leaning Up Straight - Hillary: In for the long haul

Blue Star Chronicles - Michelle Obama to Poor Working Women: Don’t Cry For Me

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