Here is an open letter I have written to Senator McCain. I've started calling it my very own special comment, because it came out sounding kind of Keithy. Click below to read it.
The People of the United States
USA
October 10, 2008
Dear Senator McCain,
We the People of the United States regret to inform you that we have chosen to go with another applicant for the job of President of the United States. While you were one of the top contenders for the position, it has come to our attention that certain recent behavior on your part disqualifies you for the job. The presidency is the highest office in this land and possibly the world. This is a job that requires the one who holds it to be a leader. An ideal president is a person who Americans should look to as an example, someone who we can follow and trust. Yet you seem to be either unable or unwilling to set an honorable example for even your most loyal followers: the crowds who come to your campaign events.
When the people in these crowds--the ones who come to hear your speeches and hang on your every word--shout out the most unfair and inflammatory insults about Barack Obama, like "terrorist," and even threats like "kill him," you do nothing. It is obvious that this happens well within earshot of you. There is video to prove it. Yet when these things happen, you do nothing. In fact, you seem to encourage it. What kind of a leader are you, Senator? What kind of American leader would allow his own supporters to stand just feet away from him and accuse another US senator of being one who would commit acts of war against his own country, and even threaten that senator's life?
The fact that you will not say a single word, will not even go so far as to take a few seconds out of your speech to chide these lunatics that their comments are unnecessary and inappropriate--the very least that you could do--the very least--shows us that you are no leader at all.
Unless, Senator, this is how you want those who follow you to behave. If you want to lead your fellow Americans to scream racist slurs at African American members of the press, to accuse US senators of treason, to threaten the lives of our leaders, then you are doing a terrific job. You seem now to be relying on a demographic of followers who want to take our country back to the era when those whose skin was any color but white had no chance of being represented in our government, an era when whispered accusations of "communist" and "socialist" (along with the implicit "homosexual" and "Jew") could ruin the lives of those so accused.
While the hysteria over communism is again trying to rear its ugly head, the new buzzword for our time is "terrorist." No matter what label is used, the meaning is still the same. It is still a word that is designed to stir irrational fear, to paint your opponent as anti-American, as some foreign "other" that looms on the edge of nightmares against whom we need protection. The fact that the only way that you feel that you can get us, the American people, to give you the job of President is to convince us that we must fear everything and rely upon you to protect us, tells us that you have no other qualifications for the job.
Likewise, your choice of running mate is evidence that you do not take the office of the president seriously. The vice president is, to put it bluntly, essentially an emergency back-up president. This position is all the more important when considering your age and health, Senator. Yet you have chosen a running mate with almost no leadership experience, one whose views are so extreme, so far from anything that could be called representative of the views of most Americans, right or left, one whose record is so full of unpleasant surprises that one would think you did not vet her at all. This leads us to believe that you chose her simply to gain the votes of women, and that you seemed to think that by adding a woman, any woman at all, no matter how unqualified, to your ticket would bring in the votes from women that you needed. This shows us that you think very little of the intelligence of women voters.
Senator McCain, do you believe that if you were to die in office (and we do not mean to offend, only to plan for any possible contingency) the country would be in good hands with Governor Sarah Palin as our president? Or do you believe yourself to be immortal, and therefore your selection of running mate to be unimportant?
This behavior requires an explanation. Yet you refuse to give us any answers, and vilify any members of the press who seek to find the answers you wish to hide. In fact, your double-talk and lies display a form of cowardice that is utterly unacceptable in a leader. For the afore mentioned reasons, you will not be considered for the job for which you have applied. Thank you for your interest.
Sincerely,
The American People