It’s truly incredible that recent polls have John McCain running close or in some cases even with Barak Obama. Is it possible that suddenly half of likely voters are greedy rich CEO’s, the religiously insane, or intolerant bigots? You know, the republican base. Surely even the most greedy and intolerant amongst us have had enough of a president who’s an embarrassment every time he opens his mouth.
Forgetting McCain’s flip-floppery on almost every position he stood for in 2000 to pander to "the base," forgetting his daily gaffes, forgetting he can’t remember his own policy positions from one hour to the next, and forgetting that this so-called foreign policy expert couldn’t find a middle east country with an Atlas and a geography teacher, he has to be a worse public speaker than Bush. After eight years of Bush, how could anyone, including rabid wingnutters, want more of this? If his boring monotone wasn’t enough to have you diving for the channel change button on the TV remote, beginning every sentence with "my friends," he must have his handlers half insane.
McCain’s vaunted claim to fame is getting shot down in Vietnam and being held prisoner for 5 1/2 years. How that somehow qualifies him as a foreign policy expert is beyond me. It’s not like he played chess with Ho Chi Minh every night and discussed world affairs. No human should suffer the indignity John McCain suffered all those years, but that experience hardly qualifies him to be president of the United States. And speaking of experience, look at the mess the so-called experienced experts have gotten us into under the Bush administration. This is the type of experience we could do without. For McCain to get up on his hind legs and endorse these failed policies in the hopes of winning the presidency suggests to me he’s jumping the shark. And according to recent polls, nearly half the American voting public is grabbing the same shark fin with him.
How depressing.