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Sunday, October 19, 2008
The Fates Have Hit
McCain Hard
Charles M. Melchior,
Kennett Square
That is the headline the Philadelphia
Inquirer put on your column it published Friday October 17. Americans
should rejoice, if it were true, that lady luck helped ensure his not
becoming our next President. After all, who in one's right mind would
wish to elect to the first and foremost responsible position of
authority in our country an individual whose combination of talent,
intelligence and intellectual accomplishment, together with his
conduct landed him the rank of 894th in a graduating class of 899 at
Annapolis? Especially when that individual is known to have a hot
temper and would become the oldest President on assuming office with a
vice-President waiting in the wings, who has perhaps the least prior
experience of any prospective President to assume the awesome
responsibilities of that office, including access to the nuclear
button.?
Besides, Much that you complain about
being bad luck doesn't qualify. Hurricane Gustav was bad luck for the
residents in its path, not for McCain. He chose to grandstand by
cancelling part of the Republican Convention, hoping to get some
favorable political mileage out of it. Gustav didn't force him to do
it.. Similarly, his decision to "suspend " his campaign while he
returned to Washington to vote for the bailout Bill backfired as it
was instantly perceived as more political grandstanding. But the major
indicators of questionable judgement on his part which will ultimately
hurt him with voters are: his use of the discredited, immoral Joe
McCarthy guilt by association tactic which flies in the face of
American ideals of what pixieish North Carolina lawyer Joseph Welch
expressed by his question to McCarthy, "Have you no sense of
decency?"; plus his selection of a light-weight vice-Presidential
running mate with a track record as an Alaskan small town Mayor and
"Small in poipilation" State Governor, demonstrating her claim to
fiscal conxervbatism is fraudulent. And he hopes to give an impression
of being politely above the fray by using her for the associational
mud-slinging
So far as drawing a parallel to Bush
being accused of being a war criminal, you have the simple problem
that he was!. For he committed flagrant naked aggression against
another sovereign member of the UN without approval of the Security
Council, as required under, and in direct violation of the Charter's
provisions relating to international peace and security. He did this
in disregard of Chief UN Inspector Hans Blix's reports to the Security
Council which contradicted the phony claims of the GW Bush
administration about non-existent weapons of mass destruction. And he
did so using the equally deliberate and misleading excuse that arch
enemies Osama Ben Laden and Sadaam Hussein had conspired and
collaborated in the criminal destruction of the World Trade Center, We
now know that bogus claim was based on a forged document requested by
the White House, which, when revealed by an honest truthful Diplomat
led to the wife of the whistle blower being "outed" as a covert CIA
agent by a White House official.
This convict's jail sentence was
commuted to no jail time by The President after he had said any
employee convicted of such an act would be fired. Defend that if you
will !! Having thus caused, on the basis of totally manufactured
rationalizations, the deaths of hundreds of thousands, the complete
destruction of Iraq's economy and infrastructure, God only knows how
many humans condemned to life-long physical and/or mental disabilities
of totally innocent Iraqi men, women and children, President George W.
Bush should indeed be brought to the bar of justice to answer for his
despicable crimes.
No, John McCain is not unlucky, He is unwise, unclear about what he
wants to do if elected other than to perpetuate George Bush's war
endlessly, and he is intellectually unfit, Therefore he is utterly
unqualified for the office.of President of the United States.
Charles M. Melchior.
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