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Thank you!

Do you hear much of the troops' thoughts on BHO?

Oh, yeah....I work with 'em. I'm the only civilian in our group.

Let's just say that whether or not the votes from here get counted in November, they are going to go overwhelmingly "Tea-Party-ish" from this area.

Overwhelmingly.

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“It’s frustrating to see both the president and vice president jumping up and down saying, ‘Look what we did, look what we did,’ when if we actually followed the policies they were calling for ... we would have left early and we would have left in shame,” Mr. Hegseth said, noting their opposition to the surge of forces in Iraq.

Mr. Hegseth said he has spoken with troops who are particularly annoyed by the administration’s move to de-emphasize the radical Islamic dimension of the terrorist threat in favor of the term “extremist,” and he described the July 2011 timeline for withdrawal in Afghanistan as an “albatross around the neck of our soldiers.”

However, he said, Mr. Obama has made “a lot of really good decisions” about personnel and stepping up drone attacks.

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But among troops, data show, he’s still struggling to win them over.

A Military Times poll conducted early this year found that 31 percent of subscribers to the publication approved of his job as commander in chief, while 53 percent disapproved. Those findings were similar to Military Times poll taken in December 2008, just before Mr. Obama was inaugurated, and found that 32 percent were “optimistic” about Mr. Obama as their commander in chief, while 30 percent were pessimistic and 35 percent were uncertain.

Given that the military is “a fairly conservative lot,” Mr. Obama inevitably faced an uphill battle in winning over many of the rank and file, Mr. Eaton said.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/30/troops-yet-to-give-obama-full-salute/