Why would you vote for McCain?

Question

He obviously doesn't know anything about politics since he is against diplomacy and wants to start a war with Iran ...he was just a soldier what are really his qualifications to become a president? His speeches are far from convincing and he has a bad temper and his jokes aren't really funny and very offensive...so i do not understand why some people support him

Answer 1

HE IS THE BEST MAN FOR THE JOB.

Answer 2

Senator Obama once claimed he would begin withdrawal of troops almost immediately after taking office should he win the presidency....a clearly asinine remark for a legitimate presidential candidate to make, without knowing the realities on the ground and without investigating thoroughly the repercussions of premature scaling down of troop levels without reasonable expectations of performance from the Iraqi troops.

Senator Obama introduced legislation to remove all American troops from Iraq by March 31, 2008, which would have been catastrophic for an Iraqi nation that was grappling with pockets of violence and being consistently infiltrated by opportunistic units of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

Senator Obama was adamantly against the troop surge, which McCain fully supported, and which, along with the appointment of General Petraeus and some long-overdue fence-mending by the Sunnis and Shias, has contributed to a much quieter Iraq today, and also enabled serious discussion on troop redeployment that was simply ridiculous when Obama first proposed his 'out in a year' bill in the Senate.

Senator Obama, earlier this year, said:

“Look, I got two daughters — 9 years old and 6 years old,” he said. “I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want them punished with an STD at age 16, so it doesn’t make sense to not give them information.”

Finding the news of a baby is punishing?  I doubt Mr. and Mrs. Obama found the news of their daughters' arrival as punishing.  Not a wise choice of words or if really his attitude towards unplanned pregnancy, not a very kind or humane set of beliefs to have or express.

I don't know what experience Mr. Obama has in diplomacy, other than assuring the world that the US will never stand up to the injustices that non-democratic nations and leaders exact upon their undefended citizens.  What would South Korea or France or Poland look like if the US used diplomacy to counter the n**i threat (hmmm....does Neville Chamberlain ring a bell?)...what did Carter's diplomacy net the United States when several Americans were held hostage in Iran for a year and a half?  A crashed helicopter and 3 decades of iron-fisted rule by the ayatollahs who seek to destroy or suppress their neighbors and their enemies rather than engage in positive and reformist changes that would ingratiate that nation with the CIVILIZED world.

If you believe McCain is just a soldier, then Obama is just a lawyer.  If you believe McCain is against diplomacy, then Obama must be against military force at any cost.  If you believe McCain speeches are far from convincing, then Obama's pontifications ("I don't want them punished with a baby") are lucid and inspiring.

If you believe McCain, a member of Congress for decades, doesn't know anything about politics, WHAT the heck does Obama know about politics?  I can fit his knowledge of REAL WORLD politics into the bottom half of a thimble.

Good luck with your truncated horizon, it'll serve you well when things really start hitting the fan for the United States.  Frankly, I don't understand how you CAN'T support McCain.

Answer 3

John McCain wasn't just a soldier, he was a war hero. I think you should look at his views on politics and then you might have a change of heart, cause your obviously going to vote for someone who really has no experience and someone that the rest of the world knows cannot protect the US the way that McCain would be able to do.

Answer 4

because barack obama is probably the antichrist, and why would you want somebody who is for killing babies?

Answer 5

No, He has no experience at all does he.... by the way his father and grandfather were admirals in the Navy, and his son was in Iraq, which John never mentions...http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/200...

McCain requested a combat assignment,[23] and in December 1966 was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal flying A-4 Skyhawks.[24][25] McCain's combat duty began when he was 30 years old. In summer 1967, Forrestal was assigned to a bombing campaign during the Vietnam War.[12][26] McCain and his fellow pilots were frustrated by micromanagement from Washington,[27] and he would later write that "In all candor, we thought our civilian commanders were complete idiots who didn’t have the least notion of what it took to win the war."[26]

By then a lieutenant commander, McCain was almost killed on July 29, 1967 when he was near the center of the Forrestal fire. He escaped from his burning jet and was trying to help another pilot escape when a bomb exploded;[28] McCain was struck in the legs and chest by fragments.[29] The ensuing fire killed 134 sailors and took 24 hours to control.[30][31] With the Forrestal out of commission, McCain volunteered for assignment with the USS Oriskany.[32]

Prisoner of war

John McCain's capture and imprisonment began on October 26, 1967. He was flying his twenty-third bombing mission over North Vietnam, when his A-4E Skyhawk was shot down by a missile over Hanoi.[33][34] McCain fractured both arms and a leg, and then nearly drowned, when he parachuted into Trúc Bạch Lake in Hanoi.[33] After he regained consciousness, a crowd attacked him, crushed his shoulder with a rifle butt, and bayoneted him;[33] he was then transported to Hanoi's main Hoa Lo Prison, nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton".[34]

McCain being pulled from Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi and becoming a POW on October 26, 1967.

McCain being pulled from Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi and becoming a POW[35] on October 26, 1967.

Although McCain was badly wounded, his captors refused to treat his injuries, instead beating and interrogating him to get information.[36] Only when the North Vietnamese discovered that his father was a top admiral did they give him medical care.[36] His status as a prisoner of war (POW) made the front pages of The New York Times[37] and The Washington Post.[38]

McCain spent six weeks in the hospital while receiving marginal care.[33] Now having lost 50 pounds (23 kg), in a chest cast, and with his hair turned white,[33] McCain was sent to a different camp on the outskirts of Hanoi[39] in December 1967, into a cell with two other Americans who did not expect him to live a week.[40] In March 1968, McCain was put into solitary confinement, where he would remain for two years.[41]

In mid-1968, McCain's father was named commander of all U.S. forces in the Vietnam theater, and McCain was offered early release.[42] The North Vietnamese wanted to appear merciful for propaganda purposes,[43] and also wanted to show other POWs that elites like McCain were willing to be treated preferentially.[42] McCain turned down the offer of repatriation; he would only accept the offer if every man taken in before him was released as well.[33]

In August of 1968, a program of severe torture began on McCain.[44] He was subjected to rope bindings and repeated beatings every two hours, at the same time as he was suffering from dysentery.[33][44] Further injuries led to the beginning of a suicide attempt, which was stopped by guards.[33] After four days, McCain made an anti-American propaganda "confession".[33] He has always felt that his statement was dishonorable,[45] but as he would later write, "I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine."[46] His injuries left him permanently incapable of raising his arms above his head.[47] He subsequently received two to three beatings per week because of his continued refusal to sign additional statements.[48] Other American POWs were similarly tortured and maltreated in order to extract "confessions" and propaganda statements.[49]

Interview with McCain on April 24, 1973, after his return home........

Answer 6

I'd vote for McCain because I couldn't vote for Buckwheat Obama.

Answer 7

You could pose the same question about Obama. What experience does he have? His energy policy is far from making any sense at all.