"I Am Sick & Tired of the President of the United States Embarrassing Me"

This is inspired by Alan, who turned me on to Jack Cafferty File , a CNN blog but he's rather good. He wrote 'It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars, and Losers Who Are Hurting America ' and provides commentary on CNN's 'The Situation Room.' Since I'm a TV boycotter since 1991 and certainly didn't watch the Brokeback Church or whatever, I do appreciate being sent things like this. Slugbug

Excerpts from Cafferty (yes I am taking them out of context) -

Russia invades Georgia and President Bush goes on vacation. Our president has spent one-third of his entire two terms in office either at Camp David, Maryland, or at Crawford, Texas, on vacation. His time away from the Oval Office included the month leading up to 9/11, when there were signs Osama bin Laden was planning to attack America, and the time Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city of New Orleans.

Sen. John McCain takes weekends off and limits his campaign events to one a day. He made an exception for the religious forum on Saturday at Saddleback Church in Southern California.(snip) It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current president. When asked what his Christian faith means to him, his answer was a one-liner. 'It means I'm saved and forgiven.' (snip) He was asked 'if evil exists.' His response was to repeat for the umpteenth time that Osama bin Laden is a bad man and he will pursue him to 'the gates of hell.' That was it. He was asked to define rich. After trying to dodge the question -- his wife is worth a reported $100 million -- he finally said he thought an income of $5 million was rich. (snip)John McCain graduated 894th in a class of 899 at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. His father and grandfather were four star admirals in the Navy. (snip) He no longer allows reporters unfettered access to him aboard the 'Straight Talk Express' for a reason. He simply makes too many mistakes. Unless he's reciting talking points or reading from notes or a TelePrompTer, John McCain is lost. He can drop bon mots at a bowling alley or diner -- short glib responses that get a chuckle, but beyond that McCain gets in over his head very quickly.

I am sick and tired of the president of the United States embarrassing me. The world we live in is too complex to entrust it to someone else whose idea of intellectual curiosity and grasp of foreign policy issues is to tell us he can look into Vladimir Putin's eyes and see into his soul. George Bush's record as a student, military man, businessman and leader of the free world is one of constant failure. And the part that troubles me most is he seems content with himself. He will leave office with the country $10 trillion in debt, fighting two wars, our international reputation in shambles, our government cloaked in secrecy and suspicion that his entire presidency has been a litany of broken laws and promises, our citizens' faith in our own country ripped to shreds. Yet Bush goes bumbling along, grinning and spewing moronic one-liners, as though nobody understands what a colossal failure he has been.

I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.

(The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer. But couldn't any of us have written this?!)

Comments

[abbycat]

I understand the fears that McCain will follow in the footsteps