Testing of a new President

McCain says that Senator and VP-candidate Joe Biden said "Obama will be tested in the first six months." In fact, Biden was only partly right. Experts believe any new President will be tested, not just Obama. McCain as a war-mongerer is actually more likely to be tested. As Kennedy was tested, so too was W. How did that work out for you?

Make no mistake about it, McCain will continue the isolationist, go-it-alone policies of George W. Bush. That will produce a much weaker America than an America with truly willing coalitions. Further terrorist attacks under McCain for instance, would result in the same approach to retribution as in Iraq, further driving the American economy to the brink of total bankruptcy. This is the irony of the boosters who chant "U.S.A" at McCain rallies. Their vitriol and hyperbole are exactly the kind of fear-driven, reactionary response that those who seek to drive America into economic ruin are hoping for.

McCain continues this line saying that he has been tested. "I've sat in the cockpit of a fighter plane on the deck .... in the cuban missile crisis...I had a target...I know how close we've been and I've been tested." How? How was McCain tested in anyway in the Cuban Missile Crisis - he got in a plane? What decision did he have to make? To follow orders? Which leg to put in his jumpsuit first? I don't know how being a pilot, on the brink of total mutual assured destruction tested him. I'm sure it tested his nerve but no one questions his will - just his readiness to go to war. He's the one who says he's a fighter.

McCain continues to misquote Obama and spread fear about meeting with the leaders of sovereign, if antagonistic countries such as Iran, Cuba and Venezuela. First, I think it's a classic example of American arrogance to put pre-conditions on meetings. I also think its ridiculous of war-mongerers like McCain to suggest that not talking to your neighbour is a better way to deal with his fence being on your property. Venezuela is more likely to cut off oil to McCain than it would be to Obama. Cuba is more likely to be pulled out of its regime with support since it's worked everywhere else. Line-ups for Levi's jeans and Big Macs brought down Soviet communism, not the appeal of American-style health care! Iran was once a strong ally of the US and its likely a majority of the people would like to have a working relationship at worst.

Since he's an angry old man who likes to fight I suggest that it's apt to think that McCain would be the type to sneak out in the middle of the night to throw garbage back on his neighbours lawn rather than talk to his neighbour about his poor put-out practices.

I love the end of McCain's speeches too. "Stand up and fight. Stand up. We never hide from History, we make History." cough, cough...I'm angry. I'm really angry. Bring it on. We're right, you're wrong - always.

America can no longer bully the world. It can't afford to bully the world. The world also can't afford another decade of an isolationist America. Everyone impacted by US foreign policy ought to be able to cast a vote in US elections. The world could help them become number one again!