OBAMA TAKES THE JOHN MCCAIN CHALLENGE AND WINS BIG
By Schuyler ThorpeAuthor and Political Activist
I feel sorry for John McCain: The current lame-duck candidate for the GOP.
No one asked him to challenge Obama a few months ago to take a trip to the Middle East–let alone expect Obama to call John’s bluff.
But he did both and now McCain is grinding his government-paid dentures in agitation and frustration over just how popular Obama was seen over in Berlin this past week.
While John had perhaps a dozen voters join him in a German restaurant in Ohio for a quick photo-op, Barrack Obama had over 200,000 people attend his speech over at the Wall in Berlin, Germany; speaking to a crowd of people whom represented the hopes and dreams of better US-European relations. (Which have soured considerably under the Bush presidency.)
And what does John McCain have waiting for Barrack Obama when he comes back? Nothing but bitter acrimony and divisive comments about the same trip he once challenged Obama on the matter of foreign policy.
Why?
Because John McCain was expecting Obama to fall on his face when he went.
He was expecting Obama to eat crow over the recent success of the surge and come back feeling humiliated and subdued; while getting an invigorating boost in his lackluster polls and standing with most American voters.
That didn’t happen.
What did happen was the exact opposite!
Malaki actually endorsed Obama’s 16-month troop withdrawal plan; rather than give McCain more hate-filled political rhetoric for his GOP campaign!
That in itself boosted Obama’s foreign policy credentials, while his trip to Berlin shored up his stance as an able-bodied Commander-in-Chief.
Someone whom could talk at the same level of everyone else–instead of treating our allies like chumps and every event in the Middle East as some kind of video game that we can win simply by force and numbers alone.
Neither Bush nor McCain have proven themselves as capable leaders in either field. They still harbor the same Cold War malaise of the past 40 years; with one looking for a pariah-ic victory in Iraq, and the other still fighting the ghosts of Vietnam.
Obama on the other hand? He spoke from the heart and spoke of everything which has not only kept this country divided for the last 8 years, but of things which most Europeans have long since abandoned since the Cold War ended: Walls.
You won’t hear this kind of talk from John “Lame Duck”-McCain. On his mind, anyone who isn’t with him is a ‘defeatist’ and only looking for America to “surrender” to the same invisible enemies that he still hasn‘t been able to identify to this very day.
But in the long run, McCain has already surrendered his chances of obtaining the White House Presidency.
While Obama on the other hand–? Has won big by taking the very risks that McCain simply refuses to candidly embrace as a whole.
Only because he’s plain afraid to.
John McCain just simply doesn’t have the courage necessary to face today’s changing world–while embattled with his own fears of the past.
Obama does. And that makes him a more worthwhile candidate for President.
Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1 at yahoo.com
Labels: Barrack Obama, Berlin, John McCain, lame duck, risks, speech, trip
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