McCain's Abilities to Educate

I see the Republicans are in fine form so far this year, still insisting that up is down, wrong is right, and that they have some connection to reality, when in fact they don't.

When it comes to Iraq, it's been propaganda since before day 1: Weapons of mass destruction, we've turned every corner, we've endured the last throes, Mission Accomplished, victory was at hand before the statue hit the ground. Then long after the American people had had enough of the Administration's lies, spin, and deceit, John McCain decided to pin his hopes on stay-the-course, more-of-the-same, even if it took a hundred years!

Now he's taking on Barack Obama: "I would also seize that opportunity to educate Senator Obama along the way," he said, referring to a proposed trip together to Iraq.

That's a laugh for so many reasons. One, Obama was right about the war from before it began; McCain was wrong. The war was unnecessary, a pet project of Bush and the neocons. It has been a disaster on so many levels it's ridiculous. So, if anyone needs an education on Iraq, it's McCain himself. This is like Grandpa driving the family car in the ditch, then trying to tell everyone else how to drive. "Just sit back, Grandpa, we're almost home."

The choice couldn't be clearer -- you'd actually think McCain would try to be "against" the war instead of "for" it, for the sake of perception. But I guess once you've pinned your hopes on something, you may as well be all in. Either we want four more years of George Bush's policies of stay the course, up is down, being bogged down in someone else's civil war and calling it victory, or we want something better. McCain promises endless war, in Iraq and anywhere else he may choose. We need something better.

John McCain is the student who needs an education, because so far he has failed.