I knew this day would arrive and I was hoping for John McCain to be the man in charge at the White House.
Remember when Russia invade Georgia last summer? And at his campaign stop, he told the Russians to cease hostilities and that “we were all Georgians now”.
What was Obama’s reaction: to take it up with the UN Security Council, that both parties cease their doing. It was only later that Obama issued a strongly worded statement against Russia.
Can you imagine McCain saying to the Iranian protesters right now : “Today, we are all Iranians”.
That Russian invasion cemented it for me in my decision to vote for McCain. He had good instincts then. Even his choice for Palin. But to drop his debate with Obama to do the bailout and to vote on it with all that pork.
His instincts failed him and he crashed and burned like an aviator pilot that wound up getting picked up on a Vietnam lake, to be sent to Hanoi Hilton, and be broken.
Obama, this is the moment of truth in your presidency and you are flinching from it badly. Your presidency has been about domestic issues. It is in events like these now in Iran (and soon Pakistan)that is paramount which can make you a great statesman.
Or a broken president like James Earl “Jimmy” Carter.
I can only imagine you in your post-presidency years putting up drywall for Habitat for Humanity for Gaza homes after more untold bombings by Israel and reconstruction by US.
Sort of like Sisyphus.
As with Carter today.
