Well, is it not understandable that Obama considered Reverend Wright to be a longtime personal friend of many years, therefore was not eager to disown him? Wright was his pastor. He went to that church. That didn't exactly make it easy for Obama, did it? He would have been caught between personal longtime personal loyalties and political expediency. As it was, he tried to steer a middle course.

I don't know which one of them would make a better president, McCain or Obama...I just can't stand McCain's belligerent approach to foreign policy, that's all. He sounds like Teddy Roosevelt getting ready to charge up San Juan Hill, and I don't think we need more of that right now. Plus, I actually think the man is probably too old for the job.

Be that as it may, I will be very surprised if Obama brings the troops home when and if he's elected president. I don't think that's the plan at all. I think it more likely that American troops will remain in Iraq and Afghanistan and that another war will ensue at some point with Iran...and excuses will be found to justify it.