Posts for September 10th, 2008

I have been watching this recent issue unfold with a bit of incredulity - especially when you watch the video of what the “Palin Truth Squad” is crying about:

When I went to YouTube to see what the other side was doing, they artfully removed the leading content - and trimmed it down for others to make an assumption, based on showing the Hockey Mom/Pit Bull comment from her speech to actually set the premise of the “outrage” fostered by the McCain camp.

And then, I saw Andrew Sullivan’s post today.  In it, he expresses much of my own thoughts, in a very artful manner. There is a disappointment I feel in McCain and his actions - or rather, his inaction in this, his last major campaign for his career. What surprises me is how he is trading his legacy for the potential win:

Yes, McCain made a decision that revealed many appalling things about him. In the end, his final concern is not national security. No one who cares about national security would pick as vice-president someone who knows nothing about it as his replacement. No one who cares about this country’s safety would gamble the security of the world on a total unknown because she polled well with the Christianist base. No person who truly believed that the surge was integral to this country’s national security would pick as his veep candidate a woman who, so far as we can tell anything, opposed it at the time.

McCain has demonstrated in the last two months that he does not have the character to be president of the United States. And that is why it is more important than ever to ensure that Barack Obama is the next president. The alternative is now unthinkable. And McCain - no one else - has proved it.

I have enjoyed watching McCain over the years - even appreciated his blunders on the Daily Show and appreciate that he is a POW.  But when a man decided to follow the baser instincts of his advisers because it is more important to win via vitriol rather than on the benefit of your own plans, that is not a man I wish to see as President.

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