The Washington Post has endorsed Barack Obama for president.
The LA Times has endorsed Barack Obama for president.
The Chicago Tribune has endorsed Barack Obama for president.
The Boston Globe has endorsed Barack Obama for president.
The San Francisco Chronicle has endorsed Barack Obama for president.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has endorsed Barack Obama for president.
The Seattle Times has endorsed Barack Obama for president.
The St Louis Post Dispatch has endorsed Barack Obama for president.
And on it goes.
But there is another newspaper you may not have heard of. It's called the Army Times, and it is the official newspaper of the US Army. Obviously, they will make no endorsement one way or another.
They did conduct a poll of the military services, however, and they have just released their results. Here they are: (Tip of the hat to Radarsite)
Overall- McCain 68% Obama 23%
Army- McCain 68% Obama 23%
Navy- McCain 69% Obama 24%
Air Force- McCain 67% Obama 24%
Marines- McCain 75% Obama 18%
Retirees- McCain 72% Obama 20%
White Non-Hispanic- McCain 76% Obama 17%
Hispanic- McCain 63% Obama 27%
Black/African-American- McCain 12% Obama 79%
Enlisted- McCain 67% Obama 24%
Officers- McCain 70% Obama 22%
No wonder Democrats want everybody to vote (dead or alive, citizen or foreigner, child or adult, human or cartoon character, etc)......except our military.
Why do you think the Democrats and their lawyers attempted and succeeded in having hundreds of military absentee ballots thrown out in Florida in the 2000 recount election?
Or did you even know about it?
Gary, with all due respect to the military, what do you expect from people who serve? To say that the government that sends them off to a useless and senseless war is wrong? Do you think they represent the best and the brightest of the American people? Just asking.
ReplyDeleteIngrid,
ReplyDeleteIn many ways, they are the best of the American people. I certainly put them on a higher plain than our media.
I also raised a legitimate issue at the end with their treatment by the Democratic Party during the Florida 200 fiasco. It is undeniably true that Dem lawyers got hundreds of overseas absentee ballots thrown out over technicalities. There was a 5 page memo uncovered at the time from DNC telling them how to accomplish that goal.
I've never served with the military, but I had the pleasure of working with a lot of former military types when I worked for Military.com. I found them to be just as diverse and interesting as any other group of people.
ReplyDeleteI'll admit that I went in with certain preconceived notions about what they'd be like, but I was often surprised about some of their views on things - so much so that I no longer felt surprised when they said something that I might not have expected before I worked with them.
Are there some real meatheads in the military? Absolutely. But some of the brightest people I've met were former military (and active reserve too, now that I think about it).
I am sorry but I didn't express myself very clearly. Most military people that I met were those who were in the military, young, unsophisticated and inexperienced. Whether they are or were the best I am not sure, brave they were. Later on in life I am sure many of them became much wiser for the experience they had, but those were not the ones I was referring to.
ReplyDeleteIngrid,
ReplyDeleteUnderstood. (I could have easily been one of those American soldiers). No question, we were young and not so wise then, but we were a cross-section of American youth (we had the draft then).
I still consider today's young people in uniform the best in our society today. The is no draft. They don't have to serve in the military. They do because they love their country to the point of putting their lives on the line.
I can't tell you how proud of them I am.