Last week an old friend and his wife visited for a few days. Like myself, he is a retired Army officer and Vietnam war veteran. His wife owns a small business and he is now fully retired with grown children and a stake in the future with grandchildren, just like myself. But his hatred for our President is so rabid, and irrational, that he is a supporter of Barack Obama. I cannot even determine exactly why he hates George Bush (and Dick Cheney) so vehemently, but it blinds him to the danger of an Obama presidency. He admits that Obama has no qualifications for the position, is pretty much an empty suit, but will vote for him anyway! He sees McCain as a continuation of Bush and thus a focus of his hatred as well. This man is not the first person that I have met who seems to feel this way, and I fear if otherwise intelligent people like my old friend can support Obama he will likely be elected. The traditional Democrat voting blocks such as union members, government workers, African Americans and the various groups of anti-American fanatics will of course vote for Obama. If those who understand that the tax and spend, Eurocentric, anti-military, anti-capitalist views of Obama will likely destroy this country as we know it, and yet will still support him out of hatred for George Bush, then maybe there truly is no hope for this country. I truly fear for the kind of nation we will have when my grandchildren are grown and trying to have a decent life. I see our gun rights gone, our economy in shambles, our foreign policy dominated by trying to please the cowardly Europeans and practicing appeasement to the radical Muslims, and our culture looking more like Mexico than like the USA that I have known, I cannot help but be depressed.