JOHN MCCAIN'S BRIDGE TO NOWHERE

JOHN MCCAIN'S BRIDGE TO NOWHERE

September 13, 2008

We are hearing lots from John McCain about how he puts country above personal interests but there is little in this campaign to prove that this is true. American voters are getting daily claims about who is the real change agent and how Sarah Palin has charmed the voters somehow with God knows what. Does anyone really believe her claim that the war in Iraq is God's war? What can we surmise about McCain's judgment when he does not select a nationally known and respected leader to be his VP running mate, but rather chooses an unknown, untested, and seemingly problematic person to be number two?

McCain is on a crash course with truth. He has been part of the Beltway insider club and American aristocracy for a quarter of a century and now is trying to re-frame himself as some sort of outsider, reformer, or maverick. The makeover does not work well for anyone who have been reading the news for the past twenty years. McCain is strictly status quo except for a handful of issues like torturing war on terror prisoners. He nothing to offer the elderly, students, working class folks, middle class people, or even veterans.

A sudden conversion to the cause of protecting working and middle class families against the excesses that he helped to support and promote is an insult to the intelligence of American voters. McCain has a bridge to the past, to the corruption of the oil company tycoons, and to the special interests that serve only the wealthy.