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>>>Given the choice of him or Kerry, who do you vote?

As a conservative, I would vote for neither.

Obama said the following in his speech tonight.

"Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation, not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy."

The power of the US military is what has kept America free and is the #1 reason why we will remain a free people. That's what Reagan believed. The day America devolves its military to a second class status, is the day we America will no longer be great bastion of freedom and liberty. Eight years of Clinton proved that. We can't afford eight years of Kerry or Obama!

I'm not sure how Clinton made the military second class as you say. It was, after all, the Clinton army that fought in Afghanistan, and the beginning stages of Iraq (when things were going well for the troops.) It takes about 2 and a half years for a president to put his individual stamp on our armed forces because of the budget cycles. Also, how are we no longer a bastion of freedom and liberty? You are free to state whatever you like in this forum, and I have the liberty to disagree.

Plus what Obama was pointing out was that those are not our greatest qualities, our greatest quality is that fact that we have unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That we have a country founded on the tenets of equality and opportunity. It is those qualities that allow us to have the strongest economy, and give the military the strength that it needs. Our troops are not fighting for some king on high, but for the ideal of a better tomorrow for their kids and other future generations.

It would behoove you to realize that military might alone can accomplish little, just ask the Greeks, Romans, Spanish, British, French. It is the fact that we have freedoms worth fighting for that make us as formidable and great as we are. And if we lose those freedoms then we lose everything.