Why McCain faces an uphill battle

John Sidney McCain III embodies what it means to sacrifice for your country. By now it is only common knowledge that he was a POW, was tortured and spent five and a half years in hell. Yet through it all, he was able to come back to his homeland as a hero. Now, decades later he faces a challenge with almost steeper odds than escaping a POW camp relatively unscathed, and that is becoming the President of the United States of America. Many of the difficulties he faces are inherited, or simply the fact that he is old enough to be Obama’s father. With Bush passing on an absymal 31 percent approval rating, Republicans are in the deepest political hole they have ever faced. Adding to that is McCain’s desire to stay in Iraq. Of course it is undoubtedly the right thing to do morally, but the billions, even trillions of dollars spent overseas for a country that was hardly even known of before the first Bush administration, makes it tough for many Americans to sympathize with such a position. And of course, the age factor. McCain hasan almost permanent joker-like grin slashed across his mouth, and has had bouts with a variety of illnesses. Obama on the other hand is young, fresh and preaches about change. This “change” is just a lot of fluff, but to appeal to the everyday voter, fluff is what they will be voting on. Not many people spend hours watching CNN, and with the headline of change, whether good, bad, or non-existant, is what will be voted for. America is tired of the Bush regime, that hogged almost a decade and made the country war-weary, and however much McCain’s ideas differ from the Bush administration, he still has many issues to iron out.