[KDD]

“The Arizona senator spoke during an appearance at a central Iowa farm where he devoted much of the conversation with a few dozen supporters to foreign relations and immigration.”

Obama is drawing crowds of 20,000 plus.The war is popular here at FR. Out in the world nearly 7 of 10 Americans oppose it.

Democrats are showing up to vote 3-1 over Republicans.

iacta alea est
The die is cast.

The neoconservatives will be repudiated this election.
They learned nothing from the elections of 2006....

They can keep the Republican Party.
They won't be able to do much with it though.

[SatinDoll]

The U.S. population has in general an attitude towards national defense that is literally just that - a half-dozen U.S. cities have to become smoking craters with millions of casualties before they become enraged enough to realize the nation is under attack.

Since 1993 there have been a number of terrorist attacks within the homeland but Presidents Clinton and Bush have played them down in importance. The attacks of 9/11 were too devastating to ignore, but people are forgetting even that horrorible day.