Trigger-Happy Jack

Another day, another attack on Obama. This time, McCain, once again harping on Obama’s seeming lack of experience, suggests that Obama underappreciates the threat that Iran poses, pulling out of context (of course) Obama stating that Iran is “tiny” and “doesn’t pose a serious threat.”

Where to start?? Decisions, decisions…

First, let’s address the ad itself. How could McCain have approved it? Does he even know where Iran is? He has said that it shares a border with Pakistan.

Then there’s the fact that the Obama quotes were pulled entirely out of context. Obama made the remarks during a speech in Oregon during May 2008. In it, he talked about the fact that even though Russia posed a huge threat to US – a far larger than what Iran poses to us now – neither John Kennedy nor Ronald Reagan rushed to war in the way that McCain is advocating going into Iran. In fact, Obama emphasized that those leaders chose to sit down and talk to the Russian leaders. I guess that talking about the issues would require some basic knowledge (such as geography), so maybe it would be best for a McCain presidency to go to war instead. Hey, it’s worked out brilliantly for Bush in Iraq, right?

For someone who sees Iran as such an enormous threat, McCain couldn’t be bothered to stop campaigning and be in the Senate to vote on the Kyl-Lieberman amendment that outlined the Senate’s feelings about Iran. And while Obama also missed that vote, at least he attempted to introduce legislation in March 2007 that would have designated the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Where is the proof of McCain’s preparedness to the fight against the apparently ginormous Iran threat? Is it merely in the his support of the much-ridiculed Bush designation of Iran as a member of the Axis of Evil?

Doesn’t sound like a lot of preparation there, McBush.

Even die-hard Republican Pat Buchanan admits that a vote for McCain is a vote for a war with Iran. Is this the kind of preparedness we want from our president? How the hell are we, the American people, expected to provide the resources for yet another war – we have neither the military manpower nor the monetary backing for such an undertaking. I’m getting a sense that John McCain is not a student of history, otherwise he might recall that another great superpower once found itself overstretched due to military entanglements that were seemingly without end. That superpower was the USSR. And we all know how that one turned out.

So while McCain is trying to paint Obama as “dangerously unprepared,” I think it is only valid to view McCain as just plain dangerous.