Conservatives should take another look

Joe Beltran, North Las Vegas

Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008 | 2:01 a.m.

There is this constant chatter by the Republicans, especially from conservatives, about Barack Obama’s relative youth and inexperience and that John McCain, a POW during the Vietnam War, has the experience to run this great country of ours, manage its complex economic system, restore respect for the USA in the rest of the world and solve the problems so mishandled by eight years of the Bush administration.

These conservatives wonder how a Columbia graduate who was near the top of his class at Harvard Law School, without the benefit of privileged family ties, can be qualified to be the next president of the greatest nation in the world, the USA. They also wonder how an articulate and charismatic young man out of a Horatio Alger novel can be qualified to run this country.

Instead, every critically thinking member of the electorate should wonder about McCain’s qualifications to be president. For the sake of brevity, here are some reasons:

1) Unable to decipher the Internet without help

2) Still thinks Czechoslovakia is a country

3) Does not know the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite

4) According to his own evaluation is lame about the economy

5) Hired as his economic adviser former Sen. Phil Gramm, who thinks there is nothing wrong with the economy and accuses long-suffering families of being whiners

6) Does not remember how many houses he owns (seven) and calls Obama an elitist

7) Like Bush, was born with a silver spoon in his mouth

8) Like Bush, wants to privatize Social Security

9) Voted 90 percent of the time with Bush.

Do we want another four years of George W. Bush?