by Robert Scheer from TruthDig.com
The world according to John McCain is one in which America is triumphant at home and abroad thanks to the Bush legacy, rolling to victory internationally and mastering its domestic economic problems. If daily news, like reports of the 10 French soldiers killed by a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan and the U.S. government's imminent nationalization of much of the American mortgage-lending industry, would seem to deny such a rosy scenario, then that only shows skeptics lack the courage that sustained McCain as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
There you have it encapsulated, the McCain campaign for president, an irrational melange of patriotic swagger and blindness to reality that is proving disturbingly successful with uninformed voters. How else to explain the many millions of Americans who tell pollsters they prefer a continuation of Republican rule when so many of them are losing their homes to foreclosure and the nation is devastated by out-of-control military spending?
Peacenik doesn't understand when he reads recent Zogby polls showing McCain leading in the presidential race. And Peacenik doesn't understand when he reads articles, like Scheer's, that point out that a big chunk of America supports McCain even though he promises more of the same. More of the same? More of the same? Peacenik stands by his early prediction that, in spite of everything, Obama will be the next president of the United States.
