enemies out there and that is when being a Veteran will garner more of the vote. It isn't just that McCain is a Vet either, he already exudes a CIC personality. He understands the military and he understands leading troops....he is a past officer. He won't be befuddled when he has to sit down with the joint chiefs and discuss apples and oranges and we have a lot of apples and oranges to discuss and decide right now. As an Army wife can I just say that in my opinion Hillary has more CIC qualities than Bill did. It's funny but soldiers didn't have a whole lot of respect for Bill but they champion Hillary like hell right now and McCain scares them because nobody wants to be Iraq until hell freezes over. Thank God Bill had Madeleine when the world had to deal with Milosevic. She might have shown up every morning to the press conference after four hours sleep with her lipstick on crooked but by God you would be respecting her or she would be knowing why this instant, and the United States troops respected her and her efforts!
I think you're right, in that when Americans have an enemy they like veteran candidates, but the post-9/11 years are a bit different in my mind. Bush has succeeded in making this a civilian war, not a military one. He is the one voters chose to battle the enemy in 2004, not the veteran, which makes me question McCain's veteran experience as being helpful to him this year.
Not to average Joe America who is not like those of us who blog and are already prebiased for our certain candidates ;) We were still attacked and just because Bush in turn attacked a middle eastern country that had nothing to do with it doesn't mean we still don't have problems out there that our military is going to have to deal with. We were still attacked and Osama is still out there making tapes to remind us all.
Well, I happen to think Osama is dead... :)
