Rather than the "What I Like About McCain" post, I'm deviating tonight into a couple of other headlines that I've been dwelling on over the past few days.
As POTUS, and this should seriously go without saying, but you are in command of ALL the sensitive military information. You're the commander-in-chief, for crying out loud. And I know that the United States Constitution outlines the criteria for a presidential candidate. I get that. But is it unreasonable to expect that our presidential candidate be expected to pass the same security clearance criteria that any other military officer must pass? There is no question whatsoever that Mr. Obama would not pass even the most basic security clearance test. Based on his associations (howEVER close) with William Ayers and his wife, based on his own admitted drug use in his book, based on his association with Resko and even with Khalid al-Mansour - any one of these things would exclude him from a military security clearance. He couldn't get an FBI clearance either. For that matter, he probably couldn't even be a policeman in most American cities. So WHY does half of America want to give him the keys to the White House? WHY do you trust this man so much with your national security? WHAT has he EVER done or accomplished to prove himself to you? WHAT has he done for his country?
Still in the military vein, the new Military Times poll was just staggering to me. Full disclosure here - I place VERY little faith in polls. So much depends on who is doing them and what the bias is. Even with the margin of error they have proven to be fairly unreliable. That said, the Military Times poll is just curious. It would appear that the military folks polled (career members and veterans) overwhelmingly support McCain. And this was polled a full month before Biden's helpful comment about the vulnerable and untested Obama.
Seems to me that the military folks aren't willing to test Obama's "spine of steel." They know which candidate has been fighting for America all of his adult life. I know, too.
After what Joe Biden said yesterday, I'd be scared out of my shoes if I were in the military! It wasn't even the part about what's going to happen in the next six months, it was the part about how we may not understand how they're handling it, but we'll have to trust them part!
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that it is if Obama, not the next president, but Obama will face the crisis. Remember Obama more or less said he was going to let Israel stand without an ally. And Israel said they will do what they will have to do to survive. In 1981 Israel attacked an Iraqi nuclear reactor, and they have flown exercises to see if they can do the same to Iran.
ReplyDeleteAre the prophecies of Ezekiel coming to pass? (Ezekiel 38).
Also, if you get a chance read Joel Rosenberg's The Ezekiel Option. (It's Christian fiction, but it has a message, and it helps explain the prophecies.)