It seems things are getting a little tough for Barack Obama. Some polls are showing that he has lost his convention bounce and now trails McCain.
When your 19 month campaign is starting to fail, it’s time to make things up.
Sunday, it was being reported that Obama said he “considered joining the United States military” out of high school. If he actually considered joining the military, it would seem he would have written about this desire in his two books that were about his life.
Statements like these won’t get Obama very far with military members and veterans. Obama fails to see that many of us actually did serve in the military. We don’t need to say ridiculous things like we “considered joining” or even the more ridiculous stuff like our relative served in the military. That’s what Obama has done and it was, to say the least, ridiculous.
Trying to reconcile one’s lack of military service with statements like this is very weak.
But that was not the only news Obama made Sunday. He appeared on ABC’s “This Week” with former Clinton staffer George Stephanopoulos. Like a good Democrat, Stephanopoulos tried to save Obama:
“Let’s not play games,” he said. “What I was suggesting — you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you’re absolutely right that that has not come.”
Mr. Stephanopoulos interrupted with, “Christian faith.”
“My Christian faith,” Mr. Obama said quickly.
Was it just a slip of the tongue? Maybe. Obama looks very tired lately. You can check it out the video HERE and draw your own conclusions.
Then Joe Biden made some news on Sunday in Kalispell:
“This is not a place where you traditionally expect to see Democratic candidates run for national office,” he said at an afternoon rally in Kalispell, Mont. “But in case you didn’t notice, Barack Obama has been (to Montana) five times.
“Now, they finally thought it was safe enough to risk sending me out here.”
Maybe it’s “safe enough” because we cling to our guns and religion out here in Montana, Senator Biden.
The Western Word 
e5 – Thanks for your comments. “Action is character” was a great quote. I plan on writing about Biden a little more in the upcoming weeks and will keep his deferments in mind.Thanks again – Jack
I considered joining the Peace Corps once, but that was after I spent four years in the US Navy, with two of those years on a destroyer in the Tokin Gulf. What a man considers doing and what he actually does are different things. “Action is character,” as F. Scott Fitzgerald once said.Anyway, good post. I only wish you had mentioned Biden’s five draft deferments and phony asthma claim during the Vietnam War.