[willy]

Mac and Nipper, with all respect to the opinions of others and especially to my friends here, I think you missed the point of that long post.
No one is saying being a POW qualifies someone to be president.
The point is that what you did, and how you lead up to that point, what you did and how you conduct yourself while you were a POW, under that incredibule, unbelievable stress and pain says a great deal about who you are and the incredible courage and compassion you have for your fellow man.
Also, McCain as a US. Senator for 23 years has been a royal pain in the *** for the republicans as a maverick, and your comment about being a 100% Bush supporter is way off the mark. Even the liberal media has stated that many times, grudgingly!
Change is being used as a marketing slogan and many are falling for it. As Lesterus post says most do not know why, just that they are disatisfied with the current situation.
Fine, me too. As a matter of fact I don't think you will find any one who is.
But the comment that Obama has surronded himself with the best minds is so far from the facts, so far from the truth that he has spent the past two years literally destroying records, secreting records and dodging questions and LYING about those he has surronded himself with all his adult life.
He is a standard chicago mob politico who is slickly packaged and lying thru his teeth with a big ear to ear smile and a great many good people are so upset with the current malaise they either don't care they are being duped or just don't know.
And the major media is trying to get him elected at all costs because they long for his socialist vision of America. They have lost all semblance of journalism they ever had and even half the leaders of the democratic party are infuriated with them, actually call it out right embarrassing.

Think hard this november when you pull the lever, if bend over and grab your anckles is the kind of change you want for yourself and your children go ahead and select the annointed one.
McCain is not perfect I agree, never found a perfect one. But he is an honorable man with good judgement, proven leadership and compassion and experience in the world that Obama cannot even pronounce, let alone claim to have. And please don't fall into the marketing trap that has been set up for everyone to believe that it will be four more years of Bush. Check his voting record, I have, he is called a maverick for a reason.