#46 McCain's "Seismic Event"

Barack Obama has been coming under fire from the Republicans for not visiting American service men and women in hospital while he was in Germany.

According to the Associated Press, "[Obama’s] spokesman has claimed that the visit to a military hospital in Germany was scrapped after the Pentagon raised concerns about political activity on a military base....[T]he campaign had said Obama decided the visit might be seen as inappropriate politicking. However, the Pentagon said the senator was never told not to visit."

McCain joined in the fray, "saying in an interview to be aired Sunday by ABC's 'This Week' that 'if I had been told by the Pentagon that I couldn't visit those troops, and I was there and wanted to be there, I guarantee you, there would have been a seismic event.' "

Swell. I can imagine that McCain would have caused a "seismic event." He's done so in the past, within the privacy of his own campaign, leading some of his own supporters to be worried about his being a loose cannon on the campaign trail.

We've just had seven-plus years of a president who doesn't think, who depends on oil-dependent advisors, and who will not be confused by facts. Can we afford another four years of a president who explodes and causes "seismic events" whenever he doesn't get his way? Can we afford another four years of a president whose foreign policy will continue to isolate us from most of the rest of the world, and from the reality of geo-politics? Aren't there any of dubya's and McCain's advisors out there who recognize that, while 200,000 Germans can't vote in American elections, they may actually represent a signficiant worldwide view of the disasters the current administration has led to in its foreign policies?

I'm preaching to the choir, I suspect. I was not an Obama supporter when both the Republican and Democratic parties had many potential candidates vying for their party's presidential nomination. At that time I was a Bill Richardson supporter. McCain's stated policies and his explosiveness have moved me into the Obama camp. It's the only place I can be now. I am deeply concerned about greater isolation of our country. I am deeply concerned about a president not in control of his emotions. I am deeply concerned about a president not in control of his policies. I am deeply concerned about a McCain presidency.

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