McCain's delusions of grandeur
Joe Biden's big mouth derailed the McCain campaign off their message -- which was to hammer Obama about 'socialism' and higher taxes and redistribution of wealth, who's 'pro-American' and such.
So really, Biden's "rhetorical flourishes" (as Obama called them) did Obama a favor.
OR...it might've been a stroke of genius by the Obama campaign to have Biden talk about a crisis in an Obama Presidency...
"HARRISBURG, Pa. – Republican John McCain told voters in this key electoral state Tuesday he was personally tested by the same kind of crisis that Democratic vice presidential nominee Joseph Biden warned Barack Obama will almost certainly face if elected president.
McCain recalled being ready to launch a bombing run during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which Biden said over the weekend tested a new President John F. Kennedy and was the template for the kind of "generated crisis" the 47-year-old Obama would face within six months of taking office. [..]"
Oh good grief. Does McCain really believe that the fate of the world was in his hands in October of '62?
Does he want us to believe he was tested by sitting in a cockpit, waiting to be told what to do? Did Kennedy call him for advice? To get his opinion on how to handle Khrushchev?
If McCain was tested during those thirteen days, then so were thousands and thousands of American servicemen and women...and I'll bet it never occurred to any them that what they were going through was in any way on a par with what the President and his advisors were going through.
Probably be hard to find any of them that vain.
All McCain is doing is reminding us that his military experience, however brave, was about taking orders. He wasn't making decisions about international policy during his military service.
The headline reads, "McCain reminds Biden he was tested in crisis."
Well, he *was* tested...but it was a lot more recently. Last month, in fact. When the financial world was crumbling and threatening to take the country's economy with it, John McCain ran around in circles yelling, Do this! No, do that! No, do both! Wait! Do neither! It was like watching a hyperactive child.
That was his big test this campaign. He failed. Calm, cool and collected Obama passed.
Biden's remark on Obama being 'tested' by a crisis was not a bad thing. Do the Republicans think that if elected, any potential crisis will magically disappear due to McCain's military service or Palin's direct line to God?
So, McCain did us a favor when he reminded voters that JFK, a young and relatively inexperienced President, could be tested in a crisis and come through it just fine.
No matter what 'tests' are in the future for the next president, I'm a lot more comfortable with them being met by Obama than by angry McCain or clueless Palin.
The candidates are getting tired. I had to laugh at McCain's gaffe while he was talking about PA Dem. Congressman Murtha's latest gaffe. Murtha had said that western PA was redneck or racist country. McCain said, "I couldn't agree with him more"... the crowd was quiet, then he got that deer in the headlights look and kind of meandered around trying to find his talking points again. It was very jumbled before he finally said, "I couldn't agree with him less."
Only 11 more days to go...
