"...McCain?.....McCain?........McCain?......"

I just realized what it is that I don’t like about John McCain.

And it has nothing to do with the fact that he is a Republican.

Or that he has the blessing and endorsement of his "hope to be" predecessor, the man that history may very well judge to be the most inept and failed President of the United States since Warren G. Harding.

Or that he is clearly in favor of a policy that has our kids, including one of mine, “fighting” a war that seems destined to be with us until the next generation of kids is old enough to be shipped over there to die.

And it has nothing to do with his character. From what I have read and seen and heard, he is clearly a good man, a devoted husband, a loving father, a patriotic man who has served his country, already, far and above any service that any person should reasonably be asked to offer.

Nope.
It’s not that.

He just bores the living bejesus out of me.

I have tried very hard to recall a president from the era of audio and/or video recording who is more lackluster a public speaker than the GOP front running senator and, like Scarlett would say…”as God is my witness..”, I cant come up with one.

And there have been some pretty non-impressive orators in the last 100 years, to be sure.

Eisenhower.
Ford.
Hell, even Al Gore (he gets included on a technicality. That being that, technically, he was elected President in 2000.)

But McCain makes Al Gore sound like Martin Luther King having a dream today.

And, as all of us who know and love Al will attest, that takes some doing.

Now, it’s unfair to equate a speaking style with the substance of what the man has to say.

But these are troubled and uncertain times.
Even more troubled and uncertain than any other troubled and uncertain times.

And in times like these, we need, we want, hell, we deserve more than to just be led.

We need, want and deserve to be inspired.

Barack Obama has gone from zero to sixty in less than two years because, regardless of his experience, he inspires people.
And Hillary? It may be love, it may be hate.
But, either way, she inspires people.

John McCain, at his most passionate, sounds like Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Bueller? Bueller? My fellow Americans? My fellow Americans?

And I find it hard to lock in on whatever vision he does or doesn’t have for the future of the world because I keep wanting to wake him up.

I am a passionate man who feels passionately about the safety of my children and loved ones, about the future of our economy and our need to break free of the grip of foreign oil interests, about homelessness and health care and the pursuit of happiness.

And I want the guy or gal who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania to be passionate, too.

Cause slow and steady may win the race.
But inspiration is what gets us off our asses and up to the starting line in the first place.

And John McCain may be the finest patriot this country has seen since Nathan Hale or he might be the blandest excuse of a politician since Calvin Coolidge.

It's very difficult to tell which.

It’s clear that he loves America.

I just wish he would love it with a passion.