My dad is a retired UAW man, WWII vet, Democrat. Pretty much the “Reagan Democrat” type. Certainly no love for Bush.

His line on Obama has always been “That boy doesn’t know what he’s getting into.”

McCain pounded home that point to Reagan Democrats time and time again.

I will agree that Obama looked and sounded presidential – he just had the wrong ideas.

The killer punch from McCain when he made it perfectly clear how a meeting without preconditions would go:

“I’ll wipe Israel off the map!”

“No you won’t!”

He had plenty of other openings to do the same. The closest was the comparison of US and Irish corporate tax rates.

Neither one explained just what NATO membership for Georgia, Poland, etc entails – American troops on the front lines against Russians, just like the Fulda Gap. When the shooting starts (again) our boys will be there, pulling triggers and bleeding.

Do you think Poland is counting on German troops taking a bullet for Polish freedom?