It would be hard to design a better test for the job of commander in chief than the real-life test senators John McCain and Barack Obama have undergone in the last two years.OBAMA IS NOT EQUIPPED TO PERFORM - UNLESS YOU FEEL A GAFFE-PRONE APPEASER IS JUST WHAT THE FREE WORLD NEEDS.
As the situation in Iraq deteriorated during 2006 and the war reached its most critical moment, both senators served on national security committees: McCain on Armed Services, Obama on Foreign Relations.
From those positions, with access to classified situation reports as well as the public testimony and private advice of those who knew the situation in Iraq best, each man reached an understanding of the facts on the ground and the interests at stake.
And each proposed a strategy.
It was as close as a presidential candidate could get to showing how he would respond to a national security crisis without already being in the White House.
... For any voter trying to choose between the two candidates for commander in chief, there is no better test than this:
When American strategy in a critical theater was up for grabs, John McCain proposed a highly unpopular and risky path, which he accurately predicted could lead to success.
Barack Obama proposed a popular and politically safe route that would have led to an unnecessary and debilitating American defeat at the hands of al Qaeda.
The two men brought different backgrounds to the test, of course. In January 2007, McCain had been a senator for 10 years and had served in the military for 23 years. Obama had been a senator for 2 years and before that was a state legislator, lawyer, and community organizer.
But neither presidential candidates nor the commander in chief gets to choose the tests that history brings.
Once in office, the one elected must perform. [MY PARAGRAPHING]
SAY NO MORE, 'CEPT...
VOTE ACCORDINGLY.
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