Country deserves thinking leaders

Michael Tabony Nelson County
Published: September 18, 2008

If you needed any evidence that the Republican candidate for vice president is anything more than a George W. Bush with long hair, you didn’t get it in Charlie Gibson’s interview with her on Sept. 11.

Most telling for me was her response when Charlie asked her if she hesitated when John McCain called. No, she said, these are things you don’t blink on.
She said, “blink,” but I heard “think” and thought, “Where have I experienced this before?” George W. Bush.

Also telling was her response on possible war by the United States against Russia over Georgia: “Yes, it could happen if Georgia was a member of NATO and the Russians attacked.”
First, this is not the Georgia that has Atlanta inside its borders. This is a country of 1.3 million people with a hotheaded president that sits halfway around the globe on the southern border of Russia, a country with no strategic value to the United States at all except as an oil pipeline route. Our prospective vice president should recognize that her responsibility is to the Constitution and to the citizens of the United States. By readily considering the war that could easily destroy both, she shows she is not ready for the job.

The ability to act without blinking or thinking should be taken as a warning that the person possessing these qualities does not belong in high office. Everyone knows the joke about the most common last words of young, impulsive men: “Watch this!” Another way of saying “Watch this!” is “Bring it on!”
Because of “Bring-it-on-Bush,” several thousand wonderful Americans have been buried young, more people hate the United States than ever before, and our economy is in tatters.

He’s out of here in January and let’s leave it at that. Elect a blinker and thinker this time. The sigh of relief will be heard around the world.