Anyway, I go to my table and notice that there are two little guys following him around—they are dressed in the same uniform, blue coat, khakis, but they have blue oxfords on. I shake my head in wonderment. I think, has to be a politician bec. no one else would (never mind what I thought . . . it’s not important).

...the politician sits very close by and suddenly people are snapping pics with him and the mess hall personnel are bringing out plates and carafes and acting like we're in a real eating establishment. Finally, on a trip to the ice tea dispenser I ask a fringe member of the crowd just exactly who this personage is. He turns out to be the junior senator from New Jersey and former Goldman Sachs CEO, Jon S. Corzine.

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Suddenly there's junior senator from NJ. He says something to me to the effect of "Are you from New Jersey?" "No, I reply. I’m from Colorado. Would you like to play foosball?" He says something to the effect of no, my kids play but not me; you'd beat me. To which I reply something to the effect of "Senator, that was the whole idea." He made a hasty retreat at this point.

Meanwhile, over at Huff'n'Puff, Senator Corzine had this to say:

I visited troops in Iraq from my home state. These soldiers are professionals in the most magnificant sense of the word, prepared to give their lives to protect our country.

As Chad Evans puts it,

What's the moral of this story? While a politician sees political gain in visiting U.S. soldiers in a war zone and even writes about them in their inaugural post, a soldier sees a suit trying to score political points. Oh, and they also see an easy mark.