Barack has always maintained the need for our nation to be united, as exemplified in that most memorable of speeches at the 2004 Democratic National Convention: "There is not a liberal America or a conservative America, there is the United States of America!"

I believe that Senator Obama would truely show his patriotic, bipartisan nature by nominating John McCain for Secretary of Defense, when Sen. Obama wins the Presidential election. No one can argue that Sen. McCain is not qualified enough to effectively be the Sec.