John McCain

Senator McCain, you are Trumanesque, Reaganesque savior for our nation. Truman's many hardships and failings created the grit that carried him through a hostile Senate and finally made him a great President. Your Vietnam experience, horrible as it was, toughened you for the hardest job on Earth. Yet, you do not parade, nor does your family, their courage and accomplishments. That is what I admire most. After your Denver speech, it will be months before Republicans realize you have struck at the heart of the most serious threat to the world as it exists today. Nuclear Holocaust!! It will be a grueling campaign! You softly endear audiences with open questioning. You give the most profound facts about Iraq, terrorism, and the middle east. You expose existing rules not followed, committees, and people working and not working on assigned problems making Obama look like the very bright president of a high school class - a mile wide and an inch deep. You avoided the dirty politics Lincoln suffered and stood above it. He brought his adversaries back to serve him. That is your message. Obama's verbal brilliance masks a lazy mind lacking grit. Spend an hour on the killing floor of a meat packing plant and then look for American volunteers. We should be proud of our Mexican workers.