Senator John McCain was a very attractive Presidential Candidate in 2000 general elections. Had he won the Republican Party nomination, he might have been elected the president and probably a successful president. A lot has changed in the last eight years but John McCain has not. This is a new paradigm and a new world order. McCain sounds little out of touch. Eight years back, America was not engaged in the fight against terrorism. China was not an obsession of the world back then. United States’ economy was the envy of the world with projected surpluses stretching well into the future. Housing market was booming, there was no shortage of energy, gas was cheap at the pumps and credit was available to one and all. There was peace and prosperity for all. At least that is what we all believed.
It serves no purpose to put the blame on one party or the other. The fact of the matter is that we are here and we have to deal with the current situation. The question is, who is best suited to be the next President of the United States of America? When Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush went to college, there were hardly any foreign students in their classes. But when Bill Clinton and George W Bush went to college there were not only some foreign students in their classes but they also came from non-western world. In that respect John McCain has very little exposure to non-European population. Barack Obama, on the other hand, grew-up with very substantial non-white and non-western population and therefore has a natural understanding of their mind-set.
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