Dangerously UNprepared vs. Dangerously Prepared

Senator John McCain has said that Barack Obama is “dangerously unprepared” to be president.  It’s an interesting idea based, one supposes, on Obama’s relative lack of Washington experience.

McCain, conversely, asserts that he has the experience to be president; that he’s been involved in every serious national security issue over the past 20-plus years; that he’s ready to lead on day one and needs no on-the-job training.

Without belabouring the obvious differences in judgment with regard to the Iraq war – Obama has been right all along, McCain has been wrong all along no matter what the lying old cunt says, I would suggest that McCain is, to turn his own phrase, dangerously prepared to be president.

McCain says he knows how to win wars.  One is thus moved to ask where he acquired this knowledge.
Were he General Stormin’ Norman Schwarzkopf (Commander-in- Chief, Central Command (CENTCOM)), I’d not question his credentials.  Heck, if he were Colin Powell, it’d likewise be a gimme.  These are men who led troops into battle and accomplished their missions.  But he’s not those men.

John McCain’s experience of war is dropping bombs, getting shot down and managing to not die in a POW camp.  How does this translate into knowing how to win a war?  Not to put too fine a point on it, but America lost the war in which John McCrashTest participated.  Not saying it was his fault…but it certainly didn’t teach anyone how to win, especially not someone with such a well documented problem with learning stuff – he did, after all, graduate at the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy.

McCain says he knows how to capture Osama Bin Laden.  Shit!  That’s GREAT!  Why has he kept this a secret?
Are we only going to get this information if we elect him?  That doesn’t seem very patriotic.  If I had the solution to catching the individual responsible for the worst terrorist attack on US soil EVER, I would tell someone, you know…like YESTERDAY.

McCain doesn’t know that Spain is an ally or located in Europe.  He doesn’t know that Venezuela is in South America as opposed to the middle east.  He doesn’t know that Iraq and Afghanistan do not share a border.  He thinks Iran is training Al Qaeda.  He cannot distinguish between Sunnis and Shiites.  He has a cold war mentality and thinks stomping loudly and swinging a big stick is an improvement over the original formulation of soft power backed up by restrained and judiciously employed hard power.

Even if we accept McCain at his word that Obama lacks the experience necessary to be CINC,  he’ll have Biden and a laundry list of vast experience around him to provide anything he lacks in experience as he exercises demonstrably superior judgment.

On the other hand, McCain will have Palin and a laundry list of people he would not feel obligated to listen to or seriously consider because he believes himself to be up to the job despite his many instances of poor judgment.  From opposing MLK Day to suspending his campaign to Iraq, Iran, the economy – McCain has shown that he shoots from the hip and too often misses the target…and misses wildly.

John McCain – Dangerously Prepared to be Commander in Chief.