and he failed the most recent tests

McCain reminds Biden he's been tested in crisis

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Republican John McCain told voters in this key electoral state Tuesday he was personally tested by the same kind of crisis that Democratic vice presidential nominee Joseph Biden warned Barack Obama will almost certainly face if elected president.

McCain recalled being ready to launch a bombing run during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which Biden said over the weekend tested a new President John F. Kennedy and was the template for the kind of "generated crisis" the 47-year-old Obama would face within six months of taking office.

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I'm sure that everyone respects his many, many years of service, but I'm not sure how being a pilot in 1962, obeying orders of your superior, has anything to do with being tested in a crisis. But, I guess we're not supposed to question that "logic" because he served and was a POW!!!!

Of course, the recent economic crisis tested both candidates and McCain failed stupendously and floundered and was consistently wrong, while Obama stayed cool and gave logical, reasonable plans and suggestions.

And, if you want another test, picking a VP showed an incredible failure on his part, as well.

Later, in a world-class non-sequitor, he gave this statement that even AP had to correct:

"It's kind of like the way he campaigns on tax cuts, but then votes for tax increases after he's elected. Or the way he says he backs the middle class and then goes and attacks Joe the Plumber after Sen. Obama's asked a tough question. What's that all about?"

In fact, Obama did not attack plumber Joe Wurzelbacher; rather he criticized McCain for suggesting the Ohio plumber who wants to purchase the plumbing business where he works is in the same economic shape as most working class voters.

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As is obvious to anyone who has paid any attention, Obama and his campaign never "attacked" Wurzelbacher, but in person he calmly explained his tax plan and afterwards he disputed McCain's lies about Obama's tax plans. Even "Joe" admits that Obama is right and that he would profit under Obama's plan. It's a testament to McCain's duplicity that he is even still citing this "plumber".