A Lost and Found for Credibility

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Mr. Buchanan allegedly violated campaign finance law by coercing employees at his car dealership to contribute to his campaign, and is now under investigation by the FEC.

7) Oh, and as for those rascals of prospective accountability, the Supreme Court: McCain was for Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and David Souter before he was against them. McCain told a captive audience at Saddleback that, if he had it to do over again, he would never have voted in favor of their nomination.

8) As commander-in-chief, war would be the "last resort" says the Arizona senator, yet Randy Scheunemann, McCain's foreign policy advisor, is also a lobbyist for Georgia who has also been advisor to Georgian President Saakashvili whose election platform included a pledge to take back, or occupy, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, according to The Washington Post.

No wonder Saakashvili is such a big fan of John McCain's -- they share the same foreign policy advisor.

9) McCain wants a $5,000 tax credit to folks who pay out of pocket for their health insurance in an effort to privatize health care, and he will, no doubt, work as hard to privatize social security which means you and I had better be earning in the six figures, or we can forget retirement.

10) He will insure that big business is insulated from higher taxes while talking about protecting the middle class when the truth is he's clueless about economics. If he knew anything at all, he'd realize that, thanks largely to Bush, and his Republican predecessors, there no longer is a middle class.

And, finally, no one would question Sen. McCain's service to his country, and the sacrifice he has made, or his military record, but ask the group Vietnam Veterans Against McCain about his prisoner of war record, his temper, and see how credible his own comments, those of his campaign, and press coverage, have been.

So it is then that in John McCain, as in George W. Bush, there is a jihad against credibility, and a preemptive war against truth. Remember Bush campaigned as a "compassionate conservative." Ask anyone in Baghdad today just how compassionate his administration has been or, better still, ask the folks in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Ask administrators at the Veterans Administration who are in favor of reducing the diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to cheat returning soldiers out of justifiable psychiatric treatment as a result of their combat service in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The specious attacks against Barack Obama's character and patriotism are strictly little league in comparison to the egregious lack of credibility that John McCain has made a career of. And, what kind of character can one have without credibility?

Instead of hiring architects for his future presidential library, it might make more sense for Sen. McCain to come up with a blueprint for that lost and found.

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Widely published, poet, playwright, essayist, and screenwriter; member of PEN American Center, and PEN USA. Jayne Lyn Stahl is a Huffington Post blogger.

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