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To: USMCWife6869

I agree.

I am disgusted with this use of our military members. Identical cameras. Good heavens.

I’m a spouse, didn’t vote for Obama.

I don’t know, for sure, whom my husband voted for. He does not talk about his voting, nor does he attend political gatherings or rallies. After 20 years of marriage I could make a pretty good guess, if pressed. He has defended my (and your) right to do so for the last 26 years, and God willing, will do so for another year or so before retiring.

When our son put campaign bumper stickers on his car, we made him scrape the military identification stickers off the car. Since we do not live on base this was not a problem. If we lived on base, he would not have been allowed to have them on the car, no matter whom they supported. (The stickers were ‘Nope’ and some other anti-Obama thing.) We are really mean that way.

I think that minorities are much more likely to have voted for Obama. I think it would be cool to have a black president if it weren’t him. Others who voted for him may have been disgusted with some of the Bush administration’s policies, or specific administrative persons in the initial years of the present war, or did not care for McCain as he had not been a great friend to the military as a Senator. Although his heroism as a service member himself is widely respected. There was a whole lot more support for McCain as far as I could see, in the military community.

I am crazy about Sarah Palin. I can’t wait to see what she does next, although after the mill she has been put through - if I were her I might decide to stay at home next go ‘round.

Clinton was nearly universally despised during his years, again, as far as I could tell. I think Obama might actually be worse, and worse for morale. The parallel someone mentioned with the USS Cole precipitating 9/11, and Obama’s present behavior gives me the creeps. And let’s not forget ‘Blackhawk Down’.

I was so glad to read about the rescue a little bit ago of the ship captain.


44 posted on 04/12/2009 11:53:01 AM PDT by didi
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To: didi

Sorry, my point with the bumper sticker thing, is that they shouldn’t have been asking whom they voted for in the first place. At all. That is just wrong.


45 posted on 04/12/2009 11:55:00 AM PDT by didi
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To: didi

I know 50 people who are serving now or have served in Iraq or Afghanistan. (volunteer here for various things). 38 voted for McCain, 4 for Obama and 8 Independent.


47 posted on 04/12/2009 11:59:13 AM PDT by cubsfanconswoman (OH MY GOD THE BEARS HAVE A QB!)
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To: didi

What base are you on that you’re not allowed to have bumper stickers on the car, or is this a family imposed condition.


72 posted on 04/12/2009 2:59:45 PM PDT by MSF BU (++)
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To: didi
I think that minorities are much more likely to have voted for Obama. I think it would be cool to have a black president if it weren’t him.

We had the chance in 2000 with Alan Keyes. But he was running on his ideas, not the novelty.

Had he been elected, it would have been fun to watch liberals heads explode.

91 posted on 04/12/2009 5:49:40 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Ayers Lied, People Died. No Justice, No Peace.)
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