Dear Editor,
I am writing to express my disappointment in G. Michael Thomas’ editorial, “Argument for McCain-Palin.” The author encourages us to vote for McCain based on two claims:he is a “proven bipartisan leader . and has gotten things done.”
He defends the first claim by asserting that McCain votes with Bush “about 60 percent” of the time providing no explanation of how he got this statistic, (maybe he went through all of McCain’s roll call votes for the last seven and a half years) and dismissing (again, with no explanation) the 90 percent figure (from the Congressional Quarterly) that Obama has used.
After criticizing Obama for having “done remarkably little” (again, another axiom, no evidence is required), Thomas defends his second claim, stating McCain’s achievements as “four plane crashes and a POW camp.”
Yet he fails to explain why involvement in a war that 60 percent of Americans think we should not have fought (according to a 2000 CBS/New York Times Poll) is a positive.
I hope to see more substantive political discussion in future editorials.
Thomas’ argument was devoid of serious evidence to defend claims and did not mention how McCain plans to keep jobs in America, improve education, tackle climate change, deal with the Iraq War, etc.
– Kevin Bustabad

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