H e e e r r ee ‘ s Senator John McCain
It must be one of those senior moments of Ole John … border of Iraq andPakistan?? They are about 650 miles apart!
John McCain apparently hasn’t learned from the democratic primary race. Hilary Clinton did not make it because she was too arrogant with empty cliches, i.e. “I am ready to be CIC on day one”, etc.. McCain is making the same pronouncements, and more: “I am ready to protect you from terrorist, I am stronger on foreign policy, I am more patriotic, ..” , etc. Such declarations are not only arrogant and puerile but also silly and condescending. Silly, because there is no White House 101 in any university in the universe. It is like proclaiming that one can swim simply because there is water out there. Only when one gets wet in the water and not sink can one truly assert that he/she can swim.
There is nothing more condescending than to aver that your opponent is inexperienced. Flaunting one’s experience as the longevity in public office is like a barnacle proclaiming that it has stayed long enough underwater in a pier column. Barnacles yield no pearls.
And here comes McCain gloating over the success of the surge in Iraq. What price Iraq? Over 4000 american casualties and countless maimed and injured as well as countless Iraqis dead – too many for counting.. Whether it is success or not by any standards, Iraq is not something to gloat over. The price is too much for McCain to get ecstatic and too ghoulish to gloat over.
Here’s another McCain gaffe: he faults his opponent for making policies in Iraq and Afghanistan even before he visisted the site. It can merit a laugh or two were it not so juvenile of the senator from Arizona.. JFK formulated policies and goals for man to land on the moon. JFK never went to the moon.
