The clearest indication I have seen to prove that voting for McCain is the equivalent of voting for a third Bush administration is this video from the Larry King Show in 2001 that The Jed Report has put out on the web:
If this is how McCain thinks, then his judgment is certainly questionable.
We know McCain’s solution to the Georgia/Russia situation is to threaten military action; we know that McCain is in favor of military action on Iran; we know that McCain was ready to go to war with Iraq before George Bush did after 9/11 (Richard Clarke, at that time the White House’s adviser, has confirmed that in recent comments). That he could keep us in a military involvement for “100 years” in Iraq is a stated fact.
McCain’s campaign stresses his foreign policy experience, yet I question whether he has learned anything from America’s foreign policy during the time of his service in Congress. We know he could visit Iraq and then report that Petraeus can travel through Baghdad in an unarmored vehicle (not true, of course); We know he confused the Iranians with Al Qu’ida; we know he has publicly made misstatement after misstatement on television and at his “town hall” staged events without being seriously called on them my the mass media. Indeed, if not for the progressive blogosphere he would not be called on these things to any great degree by anyone.
It has been noted on some blogs within the last few days that Obama is becoming more aggressive, and that is a good thing. Politeness and respect toward a POW and fellow Senator has not paid off, and McCain, who once claimed to be running a campaign based on integrity and discussion of the issues, has based his recent efforts on lies and racial insinuations, soft-couched in the repeated phrase “my friends”(which now makes my stomach curdle when I hear it!).
Now we approach the conventions and the final months of the campaign and the race is a tight one. It shouldn’t be. We should be sitting here billions of dollars in debt with at least two wars going on and with housing starts at an all-time low and unemployment at an all-time high, eager to elect an exciting, honest, and experienced young executive (judging from CNN’s biography of Obama’s Chicago experience broadcast last night) to the post of President of the United States.
And we should clearly reject McCain for the most obvious of reasons: he’s just not worth it.
