My opinion – Senator Obama 6 to 1 Senator McCain

After years of hearing that if you don't support President Bush military policy, you don't support our troops, I have to wonder is another phony baloney statement from the White House. Today, a study by the Center for the Center Responsive Politics reported that members of the military are giving more donations to Senator Obama than Senator McCain, and when you just examine those troops who are deployed, Obama attracts more donations by a 6 to 1 factor. Our troops, of course, aren't much different than most Americans, who overwhelmingly oppose the Bush military policy that Senator McCain would continue; in fact the latest AP-Ipsos poll had 62 percent disapproving of the Bush policy. It's just that American troops have a lot more personal experience on this particular issue. We know that those who served believe Iraq is over-stretched, and for years that those who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan are against the current policy. Personally I don't think this has as much to do with Senators Obama and McCain as it does with continuing the current Bush course, or changing it. And our troops, who don't have a whole lot of money to give, are voting right now with their wallets. Mr. Chuckchuck

My opinion – Can General Wesley help Senator Obama?

Luckily, Senator Obama has General Wesley K. Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and the military leader during the Kosovo conflict, as an unwavering supporter whose experience and leadership in Eastern Europe is familiar by European leaders and by the American people. General Clark should be actively engaged in devising the detailed policy recommendations that the Obama campaign must make now and continue to make in the future as the explosive situation on the ground in Georgia evolves. It is clear that the United States should not threaten the use of force in this conflict. In its place as Senator Obama has suggested, independent observers should be dispatched to ascertain the conditions on the ground in Georgia and the dissident regions and to seek a resolution of the conflict. General Clark identifies that in a 21st century Europe made transnational in pursuit of trade and commerce, the 19th century solutions to which Russia is prone have no place. Russia should, and can, enter the mainstream of a Europe held together more by economics than national identities. It is to that goal that American policy should be directed and not to the in your face attitudes and statements of the Bush administration and its supporters. Mr. Chuckchuck