What price victory?

I’ve come to a conclusion. Well, I actually came to it some time back. I was just hoping I would be proved to be wrong. John McCain is not a man of honor. I wonder if he actually ever was. Oh, it seems that he has shown honorable behavior in the past. I question, though, whether it was because it suited him at the time, it furthered his career or put him in a good light for the public? He certainly isn’t showing any honor at the moment, and hasn’t for some time.

Anyone who would hire the same muckrakers that sank his previous presidential campaign demonstrates he is more than willing to jump into bed with those muckrakers. The very tactics that he decried he now uses with a viciousness that has no place in a candidate for the highest office in this land.

The Senator from Arizona has also shown that he is willing and able to use what he knows to be lies and half truths to further his cause. I am not even going to try to pick a handful from the very large pile to list here. Oh, wait, I’ll mention a couple.

- McCain hints, winks and suggests that Obama has close ties to at least one terrorist. Oh, he says he doesn’t care about a washed up terrorist, who, by the way, is a respected educator and works with Republicans on community works. In almost the very next breath, though, McCain says he wants to know what Obama’s relationship to said washed up terrorist. Mean time, McCain is…oh, it’s too stupid to continue.

- McCain says he is a maverick. How does a maverick vote with his president 90% of the time and brag about it. Since this is McCain’s own statement and it’s on film, I think it must be true.
McCain has always been a highly vocal supporter of deregulation. He says he wants to deregulate health care. He also says he can fix the economy. Fix it for who? Oh, that’s right. He wants to fix it for the people who earn more than $250,000 a year. The rest of us don’t count.

- McCain says he knows how to find Osama bin Laden. He says he’ll do it as soon as he’s in the White House. He also says he is a patriot. Wouldn’t a patriot have provided every bit of information and done his best to capture bin Laden as soon as he could? Would anyone holding such information hostage for so long be called a loyal American?

- McCain is an angry old man. He is so bitter that this has not been a cake walk for him that he is willing to do anything to become president. He is willing to allow his own campaign to attack anyone supporting Barack Obama in any way possible. He silently stands by while his surrogates attack decent, hard working and loyal Americans, generating fear and hate and dividing this country.

Senator McCain said over and over again that Senator Obama was willing to lose a war to win an election. Well, McCain is willing to destroy a country, his own, to win an election. Just tell me, how American is that?