It ain't over till it's over! Indeed it ain't!
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Tags: Al Qaeda, attack, Experience, Iran, Judgement, McCain, national security, Nov 4, Obama, Pailin, terror
Tags: Al Qaeda, attack, Experience, Iran, Judgement, McCain, national security, Nov 4, Obama, Pailin, terror
The present Obama lead is still precarious given what he is up against with racism and perceived Democrat suppport for "politicial correctness" destructive of America's traditional values - two handicaps I keep drawing attention to when Obama's supporters show signs of over-confidence. It's still a nail-biter for us Europeans whose future will be decided by an American electorate who brought us G W Bush not once but twice.
This election is still very much about national security as well as the economy.
There is still the danger that near the last moment al Qaeda or some other enemy will pull off some major attack or security challenge - maybe something we're not even thinking about - in an attempt to help Senator McCain who is far the most likely to follow GW Bush in (unwittingly) giving al Qaeda and other enemies all they want as he has done to date. (See reports of what they're threatening now on restricted access terrorist sites).
This means that during these last days before 4 November it is important to keep crying out loudly that "experience" is no automatic qualification to be Commander-in-Chief!
As I keep saying, the simple point is that no one had as many years of "hands on" experience in national security/military affairs as Cheney and Rumsfeld: but their astonishing bad judgement got us all into the Iraq war with its calamitous (for "the West") consequences.
And Senator McCain - despite all his Vietnam experience and his years in the Senate - himself demonstrated appalling bad judgement by voting for the invasion of Iraq which risked bringing and has indeed brought not one but two more "Vietnams" - Iraq and Afghanistan: when to leave, how to leave without leaving behind a trail of disaster far worse than after the fall of Saigon.
Yet seemingly near half of intended voters will vote for him and Mme Pailin (who has a 1 in 7, we are told, actuarial likelihood of becoming president within the next four years if Senator McCain wins)
Ye - these are truly nail biting days for us Europeans whose fate will be decided on 4 November.
For much more about these criticla days please see my consultancy's website www.dipconsult.eu
This election is still very much about national security as well as the economy.
There is still the danger that near the last moment al Qaeda or some other enemy will pull off some major attack or security challenge - maybe something we're not even thinking about - in an attempt to help Senator McCain who is far the most likely to follow GW Bush in (unwittingly) giving al Qaeda and other enemies all they want as he has done to date. (See reports of what they're threatening now on restricted access terrorist sites).
This means that during these last days before 4 November it is important to keep crying out loudly that "experience" is no automatic qualification to be Commander-in-Chief!
As I keep saying, the simple point is that no one had as many years of "hands on" experience in national security/military affairs as Cheney and Rumsfeld: but their astonishing bad judgement got us all into the Iraq war with its calamitous (for "the West") consequences.
And Senator McCain - despite all his Vietnam experience and his years in the Senate - himself demonstrated appalling bad judgement by voting for the invasion of Iraq which risked bringing and has indeed brought not one but two more "Vietnams" - Iraq and Afghanistan: when to leave, how to leave without leaving behind a trail of disaster far worse than after the fall of Saigon.
Yet seemingly near half of intended voters will vote for him and Mme Pailin (who has a 1 in 7, we are told, actuarial likelihood of becoming president within the next four years if Senator McCain wins)
Ye - these are truly nail biting days for us Europeans whose fate will be decided on 4 November.
For much more about these criticla days please see my consultancy's website www.dipconsult.eu
