I have been severely criticized for my views on John McCain and accused of lack of objectivity. That’s is OK, because it is true that I feel that the country doesn’t owe Senator McCain the presidency for his war record and I also admit that I have also said that in my opinion he lacks wisdom and judgment to be president.
This past Sunday General Wesley Clark, the former NATO Supreme Commander told CBS’s Face the Nation: “I don’t think that riding and in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be President’. And it was Galen Carpenter, vice president for defense and foreign policies studies at the Cato Institute who said: ‘McCain’s war record simply shows he was a very brave man, But it shows neither wisdom nor judgment to be President’.
But it has been Senator McCain who has set the foundations on which he is judged. For instance:
And on September 15, as the U.S economy was collapsing, Senator McCain stated: "The fundamentals of our economy are strong," despite what he described as "tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and Wall Street." You know," said McCain, "there's been tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and Wall Street and it is -- people are frightened by these events. Our economy, I think, still the fundamentals of our economy are strong. But these are very, very difficult time. And I promise you, we will never put America in this position again. We will clean up Wall Street. We will reform government."
This past Sunday General Wesley Clark, the former NATO Supreme Commander told CBS’s Face the Nation: “I don’t think that riding and in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be President’. And it was Galen Carpenter, vice president for defense and foreign policies studies at the Cato Institute who said: ‘McCain’s war record simply shows he was a very brave man, But it shows neither wisdom nor judgment to be President’.
But it has been Senator McCain who has set the foundations on which he is judged. For instance:
And on September 15, as the U.S economy was collapsing, Senator McCain stated: "The fundamentals of our economy are strong," despite what he described as "tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and Wall Street." You know," said McCain, "there's been tremendous turmoil in our financial markets and Wall Street and it is -- people are frightened by these events. Our economy, I think, still the fundamentals of our economy are strong. But these are very, very difficult time. And I promise you, we will never put America in this position again. We will clean up Wall Street. We will reform government."
Moreover, since he won the Republican nomination, Mc Cain’s own statements include the following:
That the economy is not one of his strengths; that the country made great economic progress under George W. Bush; that he knows how to capture Osama bin Laden; that the government ought to buy the bad mortgage loans from the banks and, at the same time, reduce spending; that Iraq and Pakistan share borders; that the Iraq war is the first major conflict since 9/11 ; that he thinks Czechoslovakia still exists (mentioned 3 times).
I realize that National Security is an important issue but I do not believe that the fact that Senator McCain was a prisoner of war makes him either a good Commander in Chief or a good President. Likewise, I do not believe that the fact that Senator Obama was president and editor of the prestigious Harvard University Law Review make him a good Commander in Chief or a good President.
There are other important considerations, of course.
HZ
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