McCain Sums It Up

Explaining his philosophy much better than I can, John McCain yesterday told us what he thinks motivates the American people. It turns out it is not holding onto a job before it is eliminated due to dire economic times or the availability of cheap labor outside the US, it is not a desire to have affordable health insurance, it is not the desire to have enough money to pay for food and a residence, or to send your children to college, it is not the desire to see your IRA retain enough value to let you retire – it is and I quote:

Joe's dream is your dream, to own a small business that will create jobs.

I’m sure that was Cindy’s dream, or at least her father’s, but somehow this view of what the average person is dreaming about demonstrates someone completely unknowledgeable and unsympathetic with the desires and needs of the average person in our society.

McCain later contrasted his experience with Obama’s lack of same by referring to his service during the Cuban Missile Crisis:

I was on board the USS Enterprise, and I sat in the cockpit waiting for orders to take off.

Fortunately for us it was unnecessary for him to take off and considering the US Naval planes he did fly that crashed it was probably good for the Navy. My brother was on a destroyer off Cuba during this same period and while I think he would make a much better President than McCain, I don’t think that experience necessarily prepares one to become the President of this country. And without denigrating the ordeal McCain went through and his strength in surviving it, 5 ½ years in a Vietnamese prison is not the same as planning and approving military strategy, mobilizing the armed services to carry it out, and commanding troops to victory, none of which McCain ever did.