Letters to the Editor
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Obama, Clinton & McCain
My own guess is that McCain has plenty of overexposure, too.
His flippant response to the questions about Iran, and keeping troops in Iraq ... Hillary has the potential here, being very experienced in Congress, can set the question this way:
With the United States completely unraveling so far as the housing crisis is concerned; the lowering of value of the dollar; prospects for both worsening throughout this year; not too mention that we may have another bad hurricane year -- Hillary can just ask: "how long do you, the American people, wish to support the Iraqi Government dithering around over making their own nation work? We have now given them more than five years of support. We have lost 4000 men and women killed in combat; another 500 - 1000 died of illness, disease, injuries, and have approximately 30,000 combat wounded, with the growing long-term costs of many disabled veterans a responsibility for life. Just how long do we surrender our own good efforts to the nebulous definition of 'victory' as defined by John McCain?"
"I therefore continue to propose that WE, here in America, come up with our own definition of 'victroy' which doesn't keep us there -- as Senator McCain so flippantly mocked -- ten years, a hundred years!" We cannot afford these kinds of wars. We particularly cannot afford to be in the middle of the Shi'ia - Sunni struggle in Islam. We must defiine our own victory and bring the troops home in a prudent, staggered withdrawal. We must continue to support the Iraqis as long as they are working towards a reasonable accommodation for their own people."
Obama frankly doesn't have the experience. I would guess, but of course, am not certain, that the GOP will unleash more Rev. Wright videos if they'd rather fight Hillary; or, if she's the nominee, then they will use all of the methods described herein to beat her. She does have very high unfavorable. I support her, and will not discount her. I think she will need to present herself in a different way to the American people if she wins the nomination. I do not intend on supporting Obama since I think he is a phony. I will not vote for McCain. If the case looks doable, I will vote for someone else ... write in. I think Obama's race issues will become worse as we move into a broader electorate which includes plenty of folks who will absolutely despise the implications of Rev. Wright's anti-white rhetoric.
McCain, however, is a jerk. He is a real conservative, and he is a sadistic man in situations where he knows he has to control his temper. I would urge either Obama or Clinton to launch some attacks on him which will provoke the outburst of anger American needs to see to believe. The private stories make him sound pretty mean and rude, and, arrogant. As a PTSD sufferer from Vietnam, my own take is that he has never resolved the fury he must hold inside, about being "abandoned," in a sense, by his parents (his mother cold bloodedly recounted on C-Span how the military advised she and her admiral husband to not write the entire time he was incarcerated -- and they didn't).
The austere demeanor of his mother, plus, the unresolved fury he must feel about his torture, is a powder keg and it is there, obviously, with people he works with. I think that he may also have woman problems. The last of that hasn't been resolved yet, as far as I am concerned.
I'll still take my chances on Hillary v. McCain. Obama's a lightweight, and the media seems to not care that among the Democrats, he is like Giuliani -- "if I tell you it is so, it MUST be so."
If Hillary and Obama are head to head, I hope that the Dems draft Al Gore. Gore would kick McCain's butt all over the parking lot and then some. It is a butt which needs to be kicked.