John McCain: *61

There is one thing that is absolutely certain about John McCain… John McCain is absolutely certain about nothing. And of that, I’m sure. In the spirit of Roger Maris and the movie that depicted his run at the Major League homerun record, *61, I am calling this blog the same thing. This blog is dedicated to the 61 significant and documented flip-flops that John McCain has made on areas of national security, foreign policy, domestic policy and economic policy to name but a few.

This is an excellent place to start if you’d like to see the 61 documents flip-flops.
http://www.alternet.org/election08/90956/

Watch very carefully, because after each McCain press conference, speech or public appearance, his handlers and spinmeisters will magically appear to clarify what he tried to say, reiterate it much more clearly or effectively change the original meaning and direction of McCain’s actual message. If you’ve watched a couple of John McCain’s Q&As with reporters lately, he has looked like a deer in the headlights when questioned on a couple of issues for which he had no reasonable and plausible answer available.

And yet McCain has the audacity to call Barack Obama a flip-flopper! The interesting thing to watch is that the media seems to pick up on McCain’s charges no matter how baseless and meritless they may be. He has learned what Bush and Cheney have learned, that if you say something enough, people will just believe that it must be true. He has also gotten into the gotcha game, essentially picking on whatever the issue du jour is and milking it for all its worth.

I have to admit that we can’t watch John McCain for any length of time without chuckling as he attempts to wade through answers that are either canned, delivered in an overly dramatic fashion or simply in just an incredible manner. His latest diatribe against Obama for now visiting Iraq and Afghanistan as a political stunt after previously criticizing him for not having visited that same region since he announced for president is just ludicrous and disingenuous to say the least.

Let’s be very clear about John McCain. He is a man of great valor and has a lengthy resume of service to this country. But his term of service to this country is not an adequate qualification to be president and his recent history and established standard of changing his position on 61 issues with more to come makes him an unsuitable candidate for president and allows us to discern that he will do and say anything to get elected.