A response to, “Is McCain another George W. Bush?”

We’ll take Cafferty’s blog posting point by point and debunk it.

Let’s start!

Russia invades Georgia and President Bush goes on vacation. Our president has spent one-third of his entire two terms in office either at Camp David, Maryland, or at Crawford, Texas, on vacation.

President Bush was in China supporting U.S. athletes when Russia attacked Georgia. That’s not a vacation. Plus, the job of the President does not stop just because he is not in the White House. President Bush received security briefs and updates, and made executive decisions while on his supposed vacations. Presidents do not have any time off.

His time away from the Oval Office included the month leading up to 9/11, when there were signs Osama bin Laden was planning to attack America, and the time Hurricane Katrina destroyed the city of New Orleans.

Again, President Bush received security briefs and made executive decisions while not in the White House. Our spy agencies were working around the clock to stop 9/11. Cafferty, do you think President Bush let 9/11 happen? Are you a 9/11 Truther? Because you sound like one.

Also, President Bush ordered U.S. Air Force helicopters to fly behind Hurricane Katrina and immediately start rescue efforts. Did you know about that, Cafferty? While your colleague, Anderson Cooper, bitched about the “government” not helping Katrina victims, President Bush started rescue efforts before the hurricane hit. Just because CNN cameras do not capture National Guard troops assisting people does not mean that it is not happening.

Senator John McCain takes weekends off and limits his campaign events to one a day. He made an exception for the religious forum on Saturday at Saddleback Church in Southern California.

I think he made a big mistake. When he was invited last spring to attend a discussion of the role of faith in his life with Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, McCain didn’t bother to show up. Now I know why.

In your ever-so-humble grandiose, pompous, and bellicose tone, please tell us why.

It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current president. When asked what his Christian faith means to him, his answer was a one-liner. “It means I’m saved and forgiven.” Great scholars have wrestled with the meaning of faith for centuries. McCain then retold a story we’ve all heard a hundred times about a guard in Vietnam drawing a cross in the sand.

Well, Cafferty, that is one of the core tenets of Christianity - to be saved by accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior, and through that acceptance, be forgiven of sins. Everyone struggles with faith, not just “great scholars”. In the end, you either accept to follow a doctrine, or your don’t. And if you believe you have an immortal soul, the acceptance or denial of God will severely impact where your soul goes in the afterlife.

Also, I have never heard the Vietnam story McCain told, either once or “a hundred times”. That is a personal experience he had. Obviously, Cafferty, you are claiming that it’s false. Why would McCain make up a lie about his captivity when he likely has dozens, perhaps hundreds, of wartime stories?

Asked about his greatest moral failure, he cited his first marriage, which ended in divorce. While saying it was his greatest moral failing, he offered nothing in the way of explanation. Why not?

The fact that McCain even stated that his first marriage was a moral failure speaks volumes for McCain’s honesty. An obvious reason not to give details about the marriage and divorce to his first wife is to, I don’t know, protect his first wife’s personal life? Perhaps protect her integrity and spare her any embarrassment?

Throughout the evening, McCain chose to recite portions of his stump speech as answers to the questions he was being asked. Why? He has lived 71 years. Surely he has some thoughts on what it all means that go beyond canned answers culled from the same speech he delivers every day.

He was asked “if evil exists.” His response was to repeat for the umpteenth time that Osama bin Laden is a bad man and he will pursue him to “the gates of hell.” That was it.

McCain stated that he wants to “defeat evil”. What’s wrong with that? Should we let evil win?

Barack Obama said that Saddam Hussein was a bad man, but yet he can’t support the troops in Iraq who deposed of this “bad man”.

He was asked to define rich. After trying to dodge the question — his wife is worth a reported $100 million — he finally said he thought an income of $5 million was rich.

Actually, McCain stated that he wants everyone to be rich, and stated that he does not want to raise taxes so we may keep more of our money and use to get rich.

Plus, the “$5 million” comment was a joke. Try to keep up, Cafferty.

One after another, McCain’s answers were shallow, simplistic, and trite. He showed the same intellectual curiosity that George Bush has — virtually none.

McCain’s answers were honest and direct. What forum were you watching, Cafferty?

Where are John McCain’s writings exploring the vexing moral issues of our time? Where are his position papers setting forth his careful consideration of foreign policy, the welfare state, education, America’s moral responsibility in the world, etc., etc., etc.?

Where are Barack Obama’s writings?

Also, where are your writings, Cafferty? Do you consider this dreck article poignant?

John McCain graduated 894th in a class of 899 at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. His father and grandfather were four star admirals in the Navy. Some have suggested that might have played a role in McCain being admitted. His academic record was awful. And it shows over and over again whenever McCain is called upon to think on his feet.

Cafferty, only liberals stammer, mutter, and think on their feet.

McCain and conservatives think with their brain and heart.

He no longer allows reporters unfettered access to him aboard the “Straight Talk Express” for a reason. He simply makes too many mistakes. Unless he’s reciting talking points or reading from notes or a TelePrompTer, John McCain is lost. He can drop bon mots at a bowling alley or diner — short glib responses that get a chuckle, but beyond that McCain gets in over his head very quickly.

The same has been said about Obama’s gaffes without a TelePrompTer.

Cafferty, is McCain supposed to recite the Gettysburg Address from memory at a bowling alley?

It’s a campaign stop! A bowling alley is supposed to be lighthearted and fun!

I am sick and tired of the president of the United States embarrassing me.

You embarrass yourself, Cafferty.

The world we live in is too complex to entrust it to someone else whose idea of intellectual curiosity and grasp of foreign policy issues is to tell us he can look into Vladimir Putin’s eyes and see into his soul.

Alright, Cafferty. I’ll let you have this one.

We can either ignore Russia, pass meaningless resolutions against Russia, or go to war with Russia.

Pick one.

George Bush’s record as a student, military man, businessman and leader of the free world is one of constant failure. And the part that troubles me most is he seems content with himself.

Even with all of President Bush’s “failures”, he is a millionaire. I wish I could fail and be a millionaire.

I am wholeheartedly content about the misery that President Bush brings you, Cafferty, and all other liberals. That’s just an added bonus from the Bush Administration.

He will leave office with the country $10 trillion in debt, fighting two wars, our international reputation in shambles, our government cloaked in secrecy and suspicion that his entire presidency has been a litany of broken laws and promises, our citizens’ faith in our own country ripped to shreds. Yet Bush goes bumbling along, grinning and spewing moronic one-liners, as though nobody understands what a colossal failure he has been.

Even with all of these “missteps”, America is still the greatest, most powerful, and most richest country in the world.

If our government was cloaked in secrecy, Cafferty, your article would have never seen the light of my computer screen. You would be one of the first people censored if America was really a totalitarian state.

I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.

Let’s hope so.

Hat Tip: NewsBusters.org

Tags: John Cafferty, John McCain, liberals, President Bush
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