McCain won’t acknowledge Bush’s mistakes

Ken Anderson, Las Vegas

Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008 | 2:04 a.m.

I like John McCain, but not as our next president. I respect his war record and his tenure in the U.S. Senate. McCain would like to follow a president who gave us eight years that included some very bad times, but he does not seem to admit that many of Bush’s decisions were poor.

One of the Bush ideologies, deregulation, has not produced the results we were promised. Speculators have used deregulation to make fortunes.

Wake up, fellow Americans. The result of this brave new ideology has resulted in ridiculous gasoline prices and this week’s chaos on Wall Street.

McCain owes it to the voters to acknowledge the current problems — not in broad strokes, but in everyday language — with the economy, health care, the war in Iraq, immigration and energy. Perhaps the debates will be a time and place for McCain to disclose his ideas on solutions to these problems.

McCain would have us believe that Barack Obama does not have the experience to be president. Let me make an analogy. If two people went into two emergency rooms after an auto accident and Dr. McCain, the veteran doctor, treated his patient for facial cuts, ignoring the broken leg, while Dr. Obama, the younger doctor, recognized the broken leg as the immediate problem and treated it, who would be the effective physician?

Come on, John McCain, you’re a good man, but stop holding back on telling us how badly this administration has led us. Show us you can see America’s problems and are willing to correct them. Stop telling us over and over that Obama has too little experience and show us your personal strengths as a leader.