What's work got to do with it?

Let me see if I have this, work hard get an education show a real interest in the community, be involved and help others, become successful and that is an elitist? - But inherit and marry money, use your 'war service' as the primary issue for qualification to everything, have daddy get you into and help you out of the Naval Academy and that is a guy that can understand the average American?

I am not a fool and I know that most of this is just a touch nastier then it needs to be, but then each campaign seems to get nastier. We are not voting for a person but for images of that person. I am not comfortable with the status-quo, and many others with a sense of enlightened self interest are not either. McCain supports too many things that are simply too anti-American for my taste.

Education, he blames the teachers and the unions, not the system and the endless amount political fixes for the problems in education and then supports private education and religious schools. Hardly an American Ideal. Unions and teachers are easy marks for cheap zingers, but the facts are far different. Teaching is more of a calling then a profession, perhaps that is why teachers tolerate the endless criticism from those who have never been in front of a classroom.

Unions are another easy target, after all what is their function but to help those who otherwise would have no voice, to aid these workers in getting a fair shake. Healthcare, America is lagging behind all other modern industrial countries, no we are not talking about socialized medicine.

If we continue to fight the reality of permanent increases in gas and oil we will lag behind even farther. Maybe McCain just has poor advisers, or maybe it is just an attitude that if you support drilling then people will believe the answer is just a wink away.

The new development of green industries means millions of new jobs (over time) but with out the government at least giving the nod to these industries how can they begin to compete in an environment of cushy laws made to favor the few. McCain does not support an increase in the minimum wage, of course for many people these days their primary work is at minimum wage how can they make it with the dollar buying so much less?

Actually I would like to see a candidate take the risk of just telling us where they stand and what they believe and let the cards fall where they may, Americans would probably surprise that honest man. That is once we got over the shock of the honesty.