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What’s up with McCain?



Do you think that candidate McCain is losing his grip?...
Is he insane? Or just a liar?

How can he say some of the things that he does?
Just review the kind of stuff that he's been coming out with
since he's committed himself to staying the course in
Iraq.

To prove his point, that the media isn’t getting it right, he decided to go to Baghdad in order to show that Baghdad is really “safe” and that you can go to the market and not have to worry about your safety.

Only, a couple of weeks after he left that market the first time, dozens of people were killed and wounded by an incendiary device.

So, he’s had to go back and justify the position he’s taken for the campaign.
I am willing to bet that he’s sorry he’s embarked on this fool’s errand.

The fact is that while he's trotting around Baghdad claiming that
The country is really safer, the media shows him huddled among hundreds of troops, swaddled in armor, protected by snipers, and moved from place to place
by Black Hawk helicopters from the relative safety of the Green
Zone with a couple of Apaches lurking in the background just in case the bad guys show up.

Is he kidding? Doesn’t he realize how contrived this all is—especially when you have the hard-bitten journalists shaking their head with some of his pronouncements….

Put this all together and you get “encouraging signs that Baghdad is getting better?”
Excuse me? Perhaps it’s time for Mr. McCain to have a reality check.

If someone wanted to communicate how off the mark the well-intentioned Senator really is, he couldn’t have done better. This tour should have been underwritten by Mitt Romney or Giuliani because if anything, it has just moved McCain to the bottom of the candidate list I would imagine…

The very fact that McCain is so out of the reality loop--and so incapable of saying he was wrong has to weigh really heavily on his future campaign plans…

After all, who is likely to vote for anyone who can’t absorb reality and adjust to it—certainly a demand on any incoming Chief Executive… And it is rather sad and pathetic to see this whole scenario played out knowing what a hero McCain had been….

The truth is that he should have kept his options open and his mouth shut; but he didn’t and now he is yesterday’s mashed potatoes. But then again, no one’s ever lost money underestimating the depth, the maturity and the wisdom of the American people…


Les Aaron
The Armchair Curmudgeon