Thursday, August 21, 2008

CNN's Cafferty on McCain

by Richard Holcomb

CNN afternoon commentator Jack Cafferty is an acknowledged cynic, but respected for talking straight. Here's his blunt assessment of Senator McCain as a successor to George Bush:

It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current president and 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.

As a citizen, I wish the good Senator would give me some reason to believe otherwise. So far, not so good.

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