our next president better....
im not sure if it was a national ad, but i saw a funny john mccain commercial the other night. it was a propaganda'ish advertisement. trying to force the idea that his military experience and vietnam heroics somehow make him a capable leader. what exactly do you lead in a p.o.w. prison for 5 years? probably not much. anyway, what sort of message is he really feeding us. is he saying that being in the navy in the 60's means he understands how to fight a new kind of war, the sort of war that never going to go away? how exactly does a military background help out when the next president is going to inherit a crashing economy, soaring energy prices, buku inflation, and a deteriorating infrastructure? how can a guy in his 70's be the sort of forward thinker the country needs to dig us out of the hole were in? the united states has lost its way, and four more years of backwards thinking will be the end of us. there is an entire generation entering the workforce, and for the first...