I am glad to see that some people understand that McCain’s heroism in Nam is overrated. I guess John Kerry should have gotten himself captured for the Reps to acknowledge that he was a hero.
I think that the similarity between Bush and McCain is a simple propaganda message, they are obviously different. Perhaps McCain is better… it is simply hard to be worse than Bush (Robert Mugabe maybe?). McCain went to Vietnam, Bush stayed in Texas. Yet, there are similarities between them. Both were born to wealth. No matter what they say about understanding simple folk, this is obviously BS. Both didn’t do well in school. Both like to simplify things and piss on the rest of the world. Therefore, I doubt that John McCain can understand, let alone solve, the complicated problems we face. Particularly at 3 am in the 21st Century.
But he can sure win, because his base likes his simplicity: lower taxes = mas dinero para mis cervesa. This is nonsense. But to understand why this is nonsense, one need to think and many people don’t like it. Just one example: in Somalia, there is no taxes at all.
It is not whether or not there are taxes, it is where they go. Bush, for example, spent it in Iraq, where we can’t even win. “Surge is working”. In what sense, let me ask? The country is calmer than last year. It was even calmer and sure more prosperous and happy under Hussein. We are replacing one dictator with another. Where is the “democracy in Iraq”? We leave, there will be another, likely Shia dictatorship. It might be even friendly for a while, like Saddam was, when we were arming him against Iran… Well, this is too complicated even for diplomats, what can one expect from simple folk going to vote in November?
