A Gentleman’s view.

Senator John Sidney McCain, the gloves must come off when dealing with you for Sir, you are no gentleman sir, and you are desispicable! All of your false claims of putting America, our beloved country first, are laid out for the entire world to see when it comes to the low-brow tactics of your campaign. I can only say with pride that I know of men of quality, they are in Iraq, because of our idiot President, and they are around the man who would be our next President, Barack Obama. As I know that they also protect you.

Were it not for the notion that no squad would want to be known as the one who allowed the most potentially damaging assassination in our history to happen on their watch, I would be more concerned about the rhetoric of your campaign and even more so,  that of some of the more colorful attendees of your rallies. I am extremely proud of the efforts put forth by Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews to go after those blindly toeing the Republican line with this divisive cultural tact being taken.

I am black and served six years in the United States Army, with two honorable discharges. I know men of honor from various branches of the military and know of the principles taught in those institutions because I have served with them. This is why I know that whatever honor you were once perceived to have as an officer and a gentleman has long ago flown the coup.

First of all as a man among men in a man’s world, it is about having the stones for whatever life will require of you as you go through it. Women may not see this exactly the same way most men do when it comes to this topic, I a man who does. Judgment of each and every one of us is about stones. Senator, your lack of them is glaring, you have sworn on the Bible as a Naval Officer, as an American State Senator of Arizona to defend this country. That to me requires that you almost demand that the Senator from Illinois be placed under arrest for the claims being made in your attack ads. You and your running mate repeatedly charge Senator Obama of being extremely friendly with a terrorist; you state repeatedly that he doesn’t see this country the same way, quietly pointing out his blackness as a reference to that fact. Your minion’s make light of his middle name, which none of us is ever really gets to choose, make it sound like his is from a foreign land. You have gone past the straight up racist tactics to strongly suggesting that this honorable man is un-American and subversive. You have done so on many occasions except the one which would have meant the most to all Americans if even half of these claims were true. As Senator Joe Biden stated “Where he came from, you looked a man in the eye, and said what you had to say about him to his face”, you, having three opportunities to do so have not been able to accomplish such a basic, but simplest of manly principles. You couldn’t look a black man in the eye, how can you take on Putin? Chavez? Ahmendinijad?

While you Sir, appear to be a candidate with a plan when it comes to competing with your opponent, your plan Sir, is sorely lacking in principles. You had all of these moments to vigorously challenge this enemy of the state that your campaign is so adamantly is trying to convince your constituents is the case with Senator Barack Obama. But yet, still you’re consorting with him in debates and conversations even without pre-conditions. This activity with one so clearly un-American should be considered treason. Your actions on the campaign trail should have every other member of the United States Congress in total outrage as one of its senior members has pushed citizens to calling for assassination. The “off with his head” and “kill him” outcries at the rallies without any attempts by either Palin or you, Sir, Senator McCain to shut it down are frightening in modern times. This position you have taken Sir, has removed from your persona all vestiges of honor and integrity previously attached to your name and reputation.

More repugnant still for you Senator, will be how this campaign, this election season will go down in history, and what it will make of your participation in it. Granted, we get through this period and the next eight years without incident, you may be perceived rightly so, as the racist Senator, who tried to tear this country apart and fortunately for us failed to do so. There could still be the ugly outcome of one of your inspired supporters feeling he was given permission to resolve any issues existing with race by eliminating the source of the problem. This happening at any other time in history may be damaging, this happening today, I believe will be so devastating to this precious union we call the United States of America, you will be blamed for having incited the action that will be known as the beginning of the end of our civilized state. There are approximately two weeks left to this campaign, how you close this thing out will be more important to how you are perceived when it comes to country first. For right now, I would hazard a guess; there are very few people in America who think you have the country’s interest first at heart. History will mark you as an cowardly enemy of the state.

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