@121
goy,
McCain has a history of outrageous conduct, he placed near the very bottom of his US Navy Academy class, and was coddled into a career as a pilot because of his father. He is the only known “reverse ace” in the history of the US Air Force, having destroyed five US airplanes (he got shot down in the 6th).
“He had no real ability and was clearly out of his element in an airplane, and way over his head even as a junior naval officer.”
“John McCain,” says another Navy pilot and acquaintance of that era, “was the kind of guy you wanted to room with — not fly with. He was reckless, and that’s critical when you start thinking about who’s going to be the president,” The old pilot laughs, and then continues: “But the Navy accident rate was cut in half the day John McCain was shot down.”
McCain picked Sarah Palin as a running mate, for crying out loud. He doesn’t even know how to use the internet. How could McCain be considered competent and capable as a President in the 21st century?
You do remember the Keating 5, don’t you?
McCain does not understand the modern world. He is a leftover poster boy for Vietnam, and safer in the Senate, where his hotheaded temper can be safely contained by cloture.
By all accounts Obama is an intelligent and capable student and teacher of law, who specifically studied the Constitution. His knowledge and expertise are directly applicable to the task at hand.
Your analysis of the CAC report is also quite one-sided. It appears that there was also some success:
…Breakthrough Schools received special financial and professional support from the Challenge between 1999 and 2001. At the same time, the Challenge began withdrawing funding from the remainder of Annenberg schools.
The findings indicate that Breakthrough Schools began to develop in ways that distinguished them from other Annenberg schools.
But that doesn’t fit your argument very well.
Obama has at least some executive leadership experience that McCain will never have – he has run a winning campaign for President, and serves as the President of the USA. That alone is strong evidence that he is more capable. Both men set the same task ahead of themselves – one achieved his aim, and the other did not.
Peace.
DS
