A Christian Liberal is NOT an oxymoron.

Posted by XT on October 23rd, 2008 in Campaign News

Jack Cafferty wants to know if John McCain has run an “honorable campaign“. I guess it depends on what your definition of “honorable” is.

Take, for example, McCain’s statements on the Cuban Missile Crisis:

“I sat in the cockpit on the flight deck of the USS Enterprise off of Cuba. I had a target,” Senator McCain said, referring to the 1962 Cuban Missile crisis.

“I know how close we came to a nuclear war and I will not be a president that needs to be tested. I have been tested. Senator Obama has not.”

That may be true – I don’t know. But I’ll tell you this – John McCain wasn’t calling any shots in 1962. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1959. If the data in wikipedia is anything close to accurate (and I bet the campaign is monitoring it to make sure it is), then McCain was a brand-new Lieutenant who had already wrecked his aircraft twice. To put it mildly, he wasn’t command material at the time.

He probably did spend some time on the deck of the Enterprise with a target drawn on a map for him. But he didn’t make any decisions about it. And, should we need to point it out, he didn’t take out his target, either.

And he claims he won’t be tested because he sat in the cockpit of a plane? Maybe he’s forgotten that the President at the time was the skipper of a PT boat in the Phillipeans during World War 2. Won’t be tested?

Honorable?

Socialist?

No.

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