Hello friends and blog readers around the world. This is my first time doing this, so please bear with me... I'm a Marine stationed in North Carolina and I just recently returned from my first tour of duty in the wonderful armpit we like to call Iraq. I was gone for a total of about 8 months and I am stoked to be back home. The only thing that bothers me is, upon my return, I've noticed a lot more things that is different about good 'ol U.S. Quick question for whoever wants a brain teaser. Why is everything that is discussed on the news or anything that is political, always presents the race card? Just curious... Here we are telling people how wrong it is to judge someone by their color, but at the same time, making it a big argument in the headlines. I'm not a racist person by no means. In the Marine Corps, they teach us how to see the guys next to you that are fighting to save your life and for you to save theirs. It doesn't matter what race or religion he/she is. But it's understood that under a sticky situation, he has your back and you have his. I think it's great that we have have our first African American president. I personally didn't vote for him, but I think he has the potential to do a great job with leading our nation. I just wish everyone would get off the kick about him being black and just stand behind our leader in the troubling times that we face. Who cares what the other competitor could have done differently! He didn't make it to the big seat! Another thing.... Why is it so hard to see how good of a supreme court judge Mrs. Sonia Sotomayer can be? Here we go again with the ethnicity battle. Wonderful..she would be the first Latino woman to hold that position. GREAT!! But who cares!! The only thing I'm worried about is if she's going to be able to handle the job. I personnally think she can. She graduated high school at the top of her class. She graduated top of her class in college. Then was accepted into Yale law school. Not to mention that she put herself through college. If anyone wanted to be a judge bad enough, it was this lady. I guess we will see how it goes. I really hope that America can get their head out of their a*s and start looking at what we need as a country to help our economy and international situations...