Bobby is doing what a lot more of us regular, ordinary people ought to start doing-run for political office. The shame of our system is that it takes so much money to put on a campaign. That is precisely why Bobby is getting in the race early.

Most of this interview focused on the Iraq War, mainly because Bobby has been there, done that. He fulfilled his military commitment in the early 1980’s and after 9-11 he put his life on hold and signed up again. While he apparently has no personal regrets (he made it out alive), he fully realizes that he (and the rest of us) was misled with regard to the reasons we were invading Iraq. Now, he thinks it is time for an orderly withdrawal, although he believes a small contigent of troops will probably stay in Iraq for a while, just not 100,000+.

It’s a long time to November 2008 and I hope to have several more interviews with Bobby, but this one was a good start.