What does it say about Americans when so many are willing to lower the bar for electing a president to the point where they will vote for the less educated, morally bankrupt, incredibly incompetent, spoon fed John McCain over the more morally and ethically qualified, higher educated, more competent, family value oriented Barack Obama?
When did so many Americans stop having standards for the Presidency of the United States? As I sit here in Iraq and have conversations with some of my buddies we are dumbfounded as to how so many people can be rooting for the guy who barely graduated from college. Where is the rational in these people saying that they would like for the incredibly less educated guy to be president. John McCain graduated in the bottom 0.5% of his Naval Academy Class. Come on! This can’t be that difficult. There can’t really be that many Americans out there who are this silly. Seriously! John McCain graduated 894th out of 899 members of his graduating class. And that was with the help of his father and grandfather. Come on! This isn’t Algebra. Are we as Americans that shallow? He graduated 5 spots from last in his class. Haven’t we learned enough from George Bush’s under-achievements to not vote a carbon copy of him into office for another 4 years?
Not only did John McCain barely graduate from the Naval Academy, even after he graduated he continued to be an under-achiever. He crashed numerous planes costing tax payers millions of dollars before he even went to war in Vietnam. The question is how did he continue to fly even after he himself proved to the Navy that he was significantly incompetent? Well, once again his Admiral father and grandfather helped him out again. Notice a pattern here? The pattern is that John McCain just like George Bush hasn’t accomplished anything significant in their lives without the help of their powerful fathers. Yeah he was a POW but there are many veterans who were POWs. He didn’t distinguish himself any different from them when he was imprisoned in Vietnam. Being a POW doesn’t qualify you to be the President of The United States. If that were the case Jessica Lynch would be running to become the first woman elected president.
John McCain not only cheated on his first wife but he also left her after she waited on him for years while he was a POW. Talk about the family values the GOP is always speaking of. What kind of family values does this represent? And again he married into money and Cindy helped him to begin his career as a US Senator. Once again someone else is lifting John McCain up. This guy hasn’t accomplished anything on his own other than crashing airplanes, cheating people out of their money via the "Keating Five Scandal", and constantly lying.
In contrast Barack Obama graduated from Columbia from with a BA in Political Science with a specialization in International Affairs and then went on to graduate Magna Cum Laude at Harvard Law School where he also became President of the Harvard Law Review. Barack came from humble beginnings where his father left his mother and they had to survive on Food Stamps for a while. He worked hard and accomplished things in life. He registered voters in Chicago and fought for middle class families instead of running to Wall Street to cash out on his college education. He took the road less traveled which so many people find it hard to do. I think that speaks to a persons true character when they can go in a different direction than the crowd. Most people can’t do it because they are too afraid of what they may encounter around the next corner. But Barack not only followed the path less traveled he accomplished a lot on that path.
He has been married to his wife for 19 years. Let’s hear the GOP talk about those family values because John McCain cheated on his wife and left her laying in the mud for a younger woman and on top of that he has previously bragged about his past indiscretion with numerous women. Where are all those people who continue to say that family values are a big part of their vote? CAN ANY OF THEM SPELL THE WORD H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E? So my question is since John McCain fails from an educational aspect, he fails from an integrity aspect, he fails from a competency aspect and he also fails from a moral aspect, why are so many Americans still willing to allow him to be president?