Obama wins over the military vote (at least partially)

This is a great piece from The Huffington Post on Obama and military voters, a demographic that has long been assumed to be either apolitical or to lean heavily towards the Republican side of the spectrum. Perhaps my favorite quote from the piece is this, from Paul Bucha, a retired Army Captain who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his extraordinary valor in Vietnam. Speaking of Obama, Bucha said:

This is a man that understands uniting and honor. He says there is nothing more they must do who serve abroad to come home with honor. There is nothing more that we can add or we can subtract to what they have done. They are already owed their full honor. So, it is wrong to say someone must surrender to allow us to win before they can have honor.

Especially in light of Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama - which, I might add, was so reasonably and clearing laid out that it gave me some respect for Powell again - the sheer mass of military men and women who are breaking for Obama should hint at the volume of bullshit that underlays McCain's supposed rock-solid support of veterans and military issues.