Hard to trust McCain after VP pick
I trust John McCain - that is to say I get him. Just like he gets America. He's a maverick - well at least five percent of the time. I get that McCain knows the difference between tactics and strategy. After all, who needs logic when you've got the definitions of tactics and strategy memorized? McCain has a clear vision for America; a vision that is much clearer than Barack Obama's vision by a long shot. In all fairness, McCain's vision of America is very easy to realize given that I just lived through eight years of it.
OK, maybe I don't totally trust McCain. It depends on your definition of trust. If by trust you mean "to have no confidence in" or "to be totally frightened of," then, yes I trust McCain. Beyond everything else, there is one issue that concerns me the most about McCain, and her name is Sarah Palin.
I have a very hard time trusting someone who frightens me. It frightens me that a man so passionate about America would select a vice presidential running mate who has no experience or leadership qualities whatsoever. It frightens me that the "original maverick" (ahem, Tom Cruise) became the typical politician. I understand that sometimes politicians have to make a move for political reasons.
But if a tragedy happens, Palin could be the next President of the United States. It is important to put my outrage of Palin in perspective in order to fully grasp my dismay at the McCain decision and ultimately uncover my underlying mistrust of him.
One sign the Palin decision shows that McCain picked her for strictly political reasons - she needed a pity standard to get through the vice presidential debate. News sources everywhere said that in order for Palin to consider the debate a success she just didn't have to make a major gaffe or get totally destroyed by Joe Biden.
The media took it as it was and accepted that Palin could consider the debate a success by a standard so low that even a middle school debate team wouldn't consider a success. It is thoroughly appalling that a person who could potentially be second-in-command of the single most powerful nation in the world has the nasty side effect of also being totally incapable of demonstrating knowledge or articulating the policy of the man she is running with.
OK, maybe I don't totally trust McCain. It depends on your definition of trust. If by trust you mean "to have no confidence in" or "to be totally frightened of," then, yes I trust McCain. Beyond everything else, there is one issue that concerns me the most about McCain, and her name is Sarah Palin.
I have a very hard time trusting someone who frightens me. It frightens me that a man so passionate about America would select a vice presidential running mate who has no experience or leadership qualities whatsoever. It frightens me that the "original maverick" (ahem, Tom Cruise) became the typical politician. I understand that sometimes politicians have to make a move for political reasons.
But if a tragedy happens, Palin could be the next President of the United States. It is important to put my outrage of Palin in perspective in order to fully grasp my dismay at the McCain decision and ultimately uncover my underlying mistrust of him.
One sign the Palin decision shows that McCain picked her for strictly political reasons - she needed a pity standard to get through the vice presidential debate. News sources everywhere said that in order for Palin to consider the debate a success she just didn't have to make a major gaffe or get totally destroyed by Joe Biden.
The media took it as it was and accepted that Palin could consider the debate a success by a standard so low that even a middle school debate team wouldn't consider a success. It is thoroughly appalling that a person who could potentially be second-in-command of the single most powerful nation in the world has the nasty side effect of also being totally incapable of demonstrating knowledge or articulating the policy of the man she is running with.
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