A brilliant choice?

There are those who have said McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin was brilliant. It energized the base, presumably would appeal to women, and so on. I doubt it was a brilliant choice. Indeed, I think it may well contribute to McCain’s losing the election (it won’t be the only reason but an important reason). I don’t like to say it, and I don’t mean to be cruel, but John McCain is “over the hill,” so to speak. As someone who is actually older than McCain, I believe he is just a shell of his former self. He has become just a sad old man. This is quite evident (to me, at least) in watching him walk and talk and try to engage with problems. He now didn’t seem to know that Spain was a European country and kept talking about South America when Spain was mentioned to him. If this were just as isolated incident one could just attribute it to a misunderstanding or a failure to hear the question, or some such thing. But it is far from an isolated incident. He has repeatedly confused Sunni and Shia, he still speaks of Czechoslovakia (which no longer exists), he doesn’t know the borders of Iran and Iraq, and so on. What I find most pathetic is his railing now about how he knows how to do everything; he knows how to capture bin Laden (but apparently won’t tell us until he is elected), he knows how to win wars, now he claims to know how to fix the economy (which he admittedly doesn’t understand). These are nothing but the mutterings of an old man who believes he knows more than anyone else (presumably because of his age and experience). And he shifts his positions rapidly, depending upon what he thinks people want to hear, like on drilling, tax breaks for the rich, Iraq withdrawal, and so on. He obviously wants to be President so badly he is willing to say anything. What is more frightening is that he obviously doesn’t care what happens after he gets his wish to be President. He is willing to leave us with a completely unqualified replacement, while at the same time insisting he’s putting his country first. I’m sorry to say it, but this is a pathetic performance, just plain pathetic. I’m pretty sure he is in the early stages of senility. He is letting Palin upstage him so that the campaign is turning into the Palin/McCain (she actually said this today. A slip of the tongue? A Freudian slip?) campaign and he doesn’t seem to either grasp this or care (if it will help get him elected). You’ve seen that old saying, “see Paris and die.” I believe McCain’s version has now become “attain the Presidency and die,” with no regard for our future. He has become just a selfish old man who wants to be President and cares little or nothing about anything else. I do not like saying this, even though I am an Obama supporter. I find it truly tragic and very sad and I empathize with him, but there comes a time when you should just admit the truth about yourself and retire to your rocking chair (Senators, and Supreme Court Justices, for some reason, are extremely loathe to do this). Many professions have mandatory retirement ages. I believe we should institute such rules for our politicians. If you are not qualified to be a University Professor or an Administrator beyond a certain age why should you be allowed to continue on as a Senator, even into your nineties? This cannot be in the best interest of the country.
Obama is right when he says “McCain just doesn’t get it.” How many times have you heard people say that about their parents? I’m afraid that is the situation with McCain, it’s true, he just doesn’t get it. He’s too old. Palin doesn’t get it, either. She’s too young and too mindless. It’s a joke ticket. A bad joke.


What I cannot understand is why we let this charade continue. Most everyone (except the lunatic fringe) now is aware that Palin is unqualified. The fact that she herself does not seem to realize this is proof itself that she is not qualified. I wonder if this is not some kind of Brafia death wish, or, more probably just a waiting game until 2012 (after they have destroyed an Obama Presidency).

LKBIQ:
“As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil they set out to destroy.”
Christopher Dawson