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Originally Posted by rsixing  I'm former military and McCain is not my candidate. He is so far removed from the the man in the street and the direction this nation needs to go he has accomplished alienating not only myself but nearly every person I have talked to with his saber rattling and warmongering posturing. Yes, he served this nation in the Navy. Yes, he was a POW. I respect his service. How could I not. That said I do not find the notion that military service makes anyone automatically qualified nor even capable of being CiC and PotUS. |
First of all, thanks for your service. Secondly, what leads us to believe that Obama is any different fron what I bolded in your quote above? I certainly don't see it in him. And I do agree that military service doesn't qualify anyone for anything aside from benefits that veterans aren't getting. It certainly doesn't qualify them for the POTUS, but I think it says a lot about a person who was willing to serve their country in the armed forces.
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Originally Posted by rsixing A point I have not broached about McCain is I also am concerned about his mental well-being and just how six years of torture and isolated imprisonment affected his mental well-being. I'm sorry for what he suffered but there is not one person in the world who could come out of such an experience and not be traumatized, mentally, from such an existence and that potentiality worries me, deeply. If McCain is elected what can we expect from him? How will he handle the stresses, both mental and physical, from being CiC and PotUs? Will these stressors cause him to have lapses in judgment? It's an unknown I don't want to have to find out about. |
This is a load of crap. If McCain had any issues remotely close to what you imply, don't you think we would have seen something out of him (or at least heard about it) during his last 26 years of serving the state of Arizona in Congress. How long has Obama been serving in Congress again? I think McCain's perfectly capable of serving the office of the POTUS from a "mental" standpoint.
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Originally Posted by rsixing Additionally I have two young sons (15 and 13) and I will cast my vote to make clear I will not have a warmonger like McSame in the highest office in this land who, by his own comments, has every intention of "asking" my children to serve because, as he has stated, there will be more wars. Albeit I will not forbid my boys from following in my footsteps and serving our nation in the military I will try to direct them to a service which should offer them some greater form of protection from direct combat danger, such as the USCG or the USAF, rather then their desire to serve in the US Army. I pray, if McCain is elected, they will listen to my advice and take it as given, out of my deep undying love for them and my fatherly concern for their well-being in a world that has gone mad. |
To the first bolded point in this quote - McCain is as much a warmonger as Kennedy or Truman was. He will be inheriting a war that was poorly planned and poorly managed from the WH. Yes, McCain supported the war, but I can guarantee you he would have fought it much differently (if at all) had he been the POTUS.
To the second bolded point in this quote, I applaud you. I would only hope that you would give them the same advice regardless of who is in the WH. Neither party has a solid history of properly using the military to carry out the business of the US Government.
I believe this election is probably going to be the most important election of not only our lifetimes, but most likely in the last 200 years or more. While the condition in Iraq is improving, it is still unstable and could easily swing back in the opposite direction in a very short time frame. Iran has become a major problem and while I pray we don't go to war with Iran, it is becoming more and more evident that we will, but I will not support going it alone as we did in Iraq - no way. The economy is stuck in a spiral that I figured we would have started recovering from by now, but I hardly blame Bush for the state it's in. There are so many other factors involved and legislation passed by both sides that haven't helped matters either. To be perfectly honest, I don't believe McCain or Obama is going to help the economic situation. I think Obama will hurt it slightly more than McCain will, but neither are what I would call economic geniuses at all.
My take on this election, we're screwed - no matter who wins. I'm not a big fan of McCain, but I'm less a fan of Obama. This is the first time since I've been able to vote (I'm 36), that I honestly feel my vote will truly go to the lesser of the two evils. I don't see either candidate with all the right answers. Obama may be stronger when it comes to A, B or C, whereas McCain is stronger when it comes to X, Y and Z. No matter who wins, they are going to screw something up. I'm just hoping that whoever wins will not send us to hell faster than we are already headed. And yes, the entire world has gone mad, and we're all along for the ride.