Getting shot down in an airplane is not a qualification to be president

jsteele
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Anonymous wrote:Attempting to steer back to the actual original topic of this thread...

OP said getting shot down and having been in the war was Mc Cain's "single most important factor in his qualifications to be president." Well, on top of those character-related experiences, McCain's been a member of the US Senate for over 2 decades. Obama's been a Senator for about 2 years, half of which he spent campaigning. So even if you set aside the military service, McCain certaintly is better "qualified" than Obama to be president. You may agree more w/ Obama's politics, but he's still by far the less experienced candidiate with slimmer qualifications for the job.


Experience in the Senate can be cited as a qualification, but it is not the only qualification. Moreover, for all of his experience, John McCain frequently displays a lack of understanding of important issues. For instance, he just today appears to have figured out for the first time how the Social Security System works and called it a "disgrace". Another factor is what was accomplished during those years of experience. McCain got himself embroiled in the Keating Five, authored an immigration bill that he now says even he wouldn't vote for, voted in favor of a disastrous war, opposed tax cuts that he now supports, and gained a reputation for having a terribly bad temper to such an extent that even a Republican colleague such at Thad Cochran gets nervous about the idea of McCain's finger being on the nuclear trigger. Yes, he has experience, but is it the sort of experience you want to see repeated?





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