I do have to admit I gained some respect for McCain this last few weeks that I never had for the man while he was just a senator... McCain has always been too bipartisan worrying too much for the other side... my housemate and I got in many arguments over this very thing over the years, he loved it, and I couldn’t stand McCain for it. To me McCain always seemed too concerned with how people perceived him.... perhaps it was a byproduct of the taint that so humiliated him in the keating scandal... he didn’t take that fire and level it out but took the extreme in his desire to be liked equally by both sides.... at least thats how it seemed... but this last few weeks he began to surprise me with his fire, but even in that fire you could see his reservation of really going all out... particularly in the Rev Wright mess... there is no way in a million years that should have ever been taken off the table... not one person who has been to a church more than 3-4 times can honestly say they don’t generally know where that church pastor is coming from... and worse Obama wrote about it in his book, and still he was able to skate above the story and McCain helped him by putting it basically off limits... so to end it on a good note, though McCain is a very good man and I have the utmost respect for the man, he made some very obvious mistakes that cannot be written off....
This is my first time for a post...I am reeling from the shock of the decisive EV for OHB. i agree with so many and fear from my country.. But McCain was not the best pick.. The RNC should have run Romney... if they were worried about the his pro-life stand.. forget about it. America spoke. McCain made many mistakes .. after the mortgage mess he should have come out fighting.. blaming the Dem’s. The country is reacting to Bush..like they did in 1976 after Nixon. However Obama’s brand of socialism to me is much more dangerous... We are dealing with a person who has mastered the Chicago/thug.. illegal/unethical political. machine. It truly amazes me that the country is willing to take a chance on someone they don’t even know