My take on McCain
It will be interesting to see how Obama matches up against McCain.
I do think McCain deserves credit for his military service and the years spent as a POW. But he was a very junior officer and the most useful thing he gained from getting beaten up in the camps was the ability to identify a bit with the prisoners in Abu Ghraib and Dick Cheney’s Gulag.
John Kerry did his bit in Vietnam too but that didn’t stop GW and his handlers from Swiftboating him… And the voters accepted that from a guy that turned National Guard service into a no-show job!
The Presidency of the United States is the most important job in the world and I am afraid the voters should be a bit ruthless in asking any candidate “What have you done for us lately?” and “What are you going to do for us in the future?”
I actually voted for McCain in the 2000 primary and I was appalled and disgusted by the dirty tricks that the GW folks used to defeat him. But I was even more disgusted when McCain then cozied up to GW for the 2004 election. McCain must despise GW… How could he stomach embracing him on stage?
I imagine the RNC must have whispered in his ear…. Gee, John, if you want support from us in 2008, you better get out there and put on a good show.
So what has McCain done for us lately?
He helped us get another 4 years of GW. He has failed to criticize the grotesquely mismanaged occupation of Iraq. He has said nothing about the rampant corruption and incompetence of the Halliburtons and Black Waters all of which has put US soldiers and marines at risk.
He has not criticized the creation of a bloated Homeland Stupidity department staffed by incompetent political cronies like FEMA’s “Helluva job Brownie.”
OK, he supported the troop surge which seems to have been having some positive effect.
But he never said a word about Rumsfeld firing General Shinseki for suggesting that we needed more troops in the first place.
He has, literally within the last week, discovered that we really are experiencing global warming and maybe we ought to do something about it. Even that sounds like a cobbled up attempt to differentiate himself from the most unpopular president in modern history.
It will be interesting to see who he picks as his running mate. Might I suggest…
McCain-Cheney ‘08
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