Cory Markson commented:

As a military officer who read the original PNM esquire article and has always found you to be logical and well-reasoned, and who has recommended your articles/books to countess other officers and gov't personnel, I cannot understand how illogical and unreasoned your posts on this election have been. It's been a bit disappointing, as you don't see a partisan bias in your books, but now I've begun to reassess the logic in the books due to what I see as flawed logic here. I have no issue with being pro-Obama, it's just that the logic behind the support by you has been flimsy at best.

Tom replied:

Cory,

Clearly you do have a problem with my support for Obama, and that's fine. If the only way my strategic logic holds up for you is if I'm a Republican at heart, then I never really connected with you in the first place.

And that's also okay.

Frankly, I've never found my being a Democrat has cost me any access or acceptance by Republicans in the Bush administration. Despite all the stories of their hyper-partisanship, I have personally never been subjected to any. In fact, I find that everyone I've ever worked with in the administration knows I'm a Democrat and couldn't care less regarding the validity of my ideas.

Then again, during the Clinton years, I never found that being a Democrat ever got me any more acceptance than not being one.
In general, I find that it's easier to be an outsider pushing this stuff with the GOP than a perceived "part of the team" trying the same with the Dems, meaning I'd expect to have less influence in an Obama administration.

I still, however, believe he'll be more conservative in his foreign policy and that America needs that now. I also believe America is desperate to move beyond the Boomers' politics, and that Obama does that better.