Bumping around the web bumped into a piece that went here. There are a lot ways to go after Palin but she is not the one that needs to be vetted. It seems to me we should be vetting McCain.
At open left, Tristan Snell says:
Even more fundamentally, we call into question McCain's control and leadership over his own campaign. If he can't control his campaign, how could he control an administration? Who will be making the decisions in a McCain White House -- Rove and Cheney? Is McCain his own man? Or is he just a puppet? The new Time piece on McCain already suggests that he's being increasingly controlled by his advisors and consultants, no longer allowed to speak off the cuff or be open with reporters -- leading him to be prickly and gruff. So raising these questions could lead to a wave of media stories on McCain's weakness and frustration at being controlled. Similar stories about Kerry and Gore were devastating to their images and thus to their campaigns.
McCain has a temper, he has a gambling problem, and now we know he has a decision making problem. These are the questions we need to ask: Do we want a hothead in the office gambling with our fates and placing his bets on decisions that can hardly be considered, or considered his own?
Marwan Bishara at Aljazeera has a nicely written piece on McCain's choice that ends with a very telling line:
In November, Americans need to remember that their answer is a question of life and death for many around the world where the US is militarily active in over 100 countries.
Yes, this election is about eight years of the worst president in the history of the United States, but he's not running. This campaign is about stating over and over that John McCain should not be a choice at all. It should be the leading idea on the tips of everyone's tongues, it should be dissolving out into the ether consciousness of the inner tubes and the boob tubes. I do not believe John McCain is fit to be President of the United States.