US Troops Support Obama Over McCain

For all of McCain's attacks about how Obama supposedly doesn't support the troops (you know, because Obama wants them home and alive, and wants to give them more benefits, benefits that McCain opposes), and all of his rhetoric about he is the military man, it is interesting, yet not at all surprising, that the troops support Obama a lot more than McCain. From Obama's warm and energetic reception by US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, to polls that show Obama is favored among the troops, the inconvenient truth to McCain's campaign that has always been clear, yet ignored by the media, is that the troops on the ground in the combat zones want Obama to win, not McCain. Now we see yet another indicator of this preference, in who the troops donate to:

According to an analysis of campaign contributions by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, Democrat Barack Obama has received nearly six times as much money from troops deployed overseas at the time of their contributions than has Republican John McCain, and the fiercely anti-war Ron Paul, though he suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination months ago, has received more than four times McCain's haul.

Obama gets nearly six times the love from US soldiers deployed overseas than McCain. And even fringe candidate Ron Paul gets a hell of a lot more money from the troops than McCain. Hmm...and what do Obama and Ron Paul have in common? One thing: The are against the war in Iraq, and they want to bring the troops home. Apparently the troops want to come home too. But for all McCain's talk about listening to the "conditions on the ground", and how you have to go there to know the situation, it seems like he has missed the memo. The troops, those most intimately attuned to the "conditions on the ground" say enough is enough, and they want the war to come to an end. So do the Iraqis. So do the vast majority of Americans. In fact, the only people who don't want this war to end are the Bush administration, the Republicans in Congress, McCain, and the corporations that have been getting rich off the war for the last 5 years.

I think it is time that McCain stop speaking for the troops.