Obama wins big and we celebrate with a 2 hour delay!

I did my civic duty yesterday by voting in the Virginia primary. Seth is a huge Obama fan and my vote was cast as much for Seth as it was for Obama. I have to admit, I'm not a big fan of politicians in general - Democrat or Republican. The way I figure it, anyone who wants to be president is precisely the kind of person we don't need. To have the ambition, drive and ego to want that job has to corrupt your soul in some way. I kind of think the job should be foisted on some poor unsuspecting person when they've stepped out of the room to relieve themselves after drinking to much coffee. "Oh good, you're back. By the way we elected you President while you were in the bathroom!" I do like the change that Obama represents so I will definitely keep supporting him. I can't bring myself to support McCain, especially after he appeared in that Baghdad market wearing his flak jacket, surrounded by 100 marines with helocopters flying overhead claiming how safe Baghdad was. Safe is when you walk down to the corner 7-11 without your marine escort! And, John....don't tell me the surge is working when the Iraqi government continues to drag their feet on the benchmarks we've deemed necessary for progress. As long as we have 170,000 troops in Iraq we can keep the lid on things...unfortunately we can't sustain that level of troops. The surge can be claimed successful when we draw down our troops and the level of violence doesn't raise. Oh, wait a minute....Robert Gates just said we're not going to draw down troops for the forseeable future....guess the surge isn't as successful as we thought, eh John?
And don't get me started on Hillary....not that I have anything personal against her, but I don't think 32 straight years of the Bush/Clinton monarchy would be a good thing (if Hillary wins and serves two terms, we would have 32 years of Bush/Clinton!)
Enough of that....we celebrated Obama's Virginia victory with a two hour delay for school. Actually the delay was caused by a little icy weather. The upside of that delay was we talked with Seth and Eli for about half an hour this morning. They had just returned to Al Asad from their mission and were in good spirits. The talk turned to how little time they had left and the fact that they are starting to pack some things to start shipping home. Jan had a momentary panic attack when she thought they would be shipping everything to our home, but that isn't the case. Seth will be back in for the next 7 to 10 days before heading out on a potential 15 day mission. Eli is not currently scheduled for that mission but is trying to get assigned so he can be with Seth during that time. Eli has nothing scheduled for the next couple days so they will both be enjoying some down time and doing some small details around the motor pool. Seth claims he'll be bored waiting for the next mission....personally, I like bored.